morning all. according to the official skoda book 0-60 should happen in around 10.8ish. just curious to how much this would be affected when i get it lowered and also re-mapped to 135 bhp. at the end of the day if 20 bhp is going to only shave off half a second is it really worth it? would be grateful for some tips:thumbup:

it feels faster than 10.8 though

not that im a boy racer or anything, but having a ch@v pull away from you in something that in a former life was a clio, is rather depressing!! obviously torque wise the sport ripped the clio but straight line speed, just too slow.

The old-model Fabia vRS had about the same power as your remap will get you (BLT engine-ones aside, perhaps, and depending on gear ratios). The quoted 0-60 time was IIRC 9.7s, although there are approximately 70,000,000 threads on here discussing whether this is accurate! I see no reason why yours wouldn't be in that sort of ballpark.

Don't forget that the Clio you saw will have been much lighter than your Fabia, which will have counted against you. It's like how the power-to-weight ratio of the old Saxo VTS / 106GTi was much higher than the Fabia vRS, despite the vRS having an extra 10bhp on the French cars. And despite what some on here might think, the higher PWR really showed. But then they didn't have aircon or anything like the same quality of materials and safety equipment. I know which I'd have on a hot day, or in case of a crash...

Generally, you can better the 0-60 times claimed once the engine is run in so I wouldn't be suprised to see 0-60 times of between 9.8sec and 10.4 sec or there abouts once this is done on a 1.9Tdi fabia mkII. An extra 20-25bhp would make a difference, you perhaps would be looking at times between 8.8 and 9.4 possibly. But remember diesels are not so much about 0-60 times as mid range punch, so using a good map i would expect the 30-50mph and 50-70mph times to be reduced significantly!!

Mark:thumbup:

Think about the driving experience in general , not just acceleration times when considering a remap. I'm sure it will feel much more eager on any given throttle opening than standard with a decent remap.

All 0-60 really determines is who gets to the next set of traffic lights first. Real world performance (50 - 70mph, 30 - 70mph through the gears) is a much more realistic measure of a cars performance IMO and thats where all diesels excel over equivalent petrol models.

As MikeyG says.....

Why worry about the 0 - 62 time anyway, if you have a Diesel, the only bit that really matters is the in gear accelleration, Diesels tend to be a bit slower because of the gearing.

I don't rag my vRS in 1st and 2nd, it's all revs and no speed, 3rd and 4th is where it's best and it will take quite a few people by surprise

If you are concearned with the 0 - 62 time, a petrol would be much better.

Ben

0-60 time is totally unimportant unless you really want to waste increasingly expensive fuel in pointless standing start acceleration. What counts is how driveable the car is, as others have pointed out, and here diesels really score. A remap won't really make the car that much better to drive on our crowded roads, but it could increase the fuel consumption, and fuel is only going to get more and more expensive in the future.

0-60 means naff all....

Its the in gear performance and i'd guess a remap would be pretty fruitful

yeah i certainly agree about the fuel price!! as this is my first diesel (and only second car) i dont really know that much about them. ive been really impressed with the 50-70 time, and i guess this is where you would feel the most improvement. i also think im right when i say that you could put 700bhp in a fabia and it would still go no quicker off the line. what would be the perfect balance do you think? for max perormance without wasting money on bhp that wont be put onto the road?

yeah i certainly agree about the fuel price!! as this is my first diesel (and only second car) i dont really know that much about them. ive been really impressed with the 50-70 time, and i guess this is where you would feel the most improvement. i also think im right when i say that you could put 700bhp in a fabia and it would still go no quicker off the line. what would be the perfect balance do you think? for max perormance without wasting money on bhp that wont be put onto the road?

I think it would certainly benefit from the Bluefin just to eek a little more from the engine. You wouldn't really need any more than that.

I still don't see how a remap could give better performance without harming something else. You can't get something for nothing, and if the engine is doing more work it will surely have to be provided with the source of the energy, which means more fuel.

I still don't see how a remap could give better performance without harming something else. You can't get something for nothing, and if the engine is doing more work it will surely have to be provided with the source of the energy, which means more fuel.

We've remapped one of our Octavia vRS demo's and the fuel consumption is better overall as you don't have to work the car as hard. It provides much better mid range performance meaning that less gear changing is required to make the same swift process.

Naturally the fuel consumption increases if you start opening the taps right up but the remap means that you don't need to open those taps as often or as much. I guess the same would apply to the diesel, it just makes it much more driveable.