Which is the best brand for performance upgrades?

[londonboyperth]

Hi Guys,

I posted the other day and recieved great help.

I have a 2007 3-door GTI. It is as new with the 147kw engine and DSG. I was thinking about giving it a bit of a performane upgrade....but I am very new to this sort of thing....my experience of performance modifications has previously been on 1970's Australian 'muscle' cars when I was a bit younger...this is because I live in Australia (the closest thing to these would be Ford Mustangs etc).

I have been reading a few of the posts as well as a few of the links to find out more information. However I am a tad confused!

I understand that Stage 1, Stage 2 etc means more money and more 'work' to the engine. But I have a few questions.

Firstly, does the expression 'remapping' mean the same thing as a car being 'chipped'? This is the expression I hear people using in Australia.

Secondly, what is the best brand for doing these modifications? I see a few such as Revo and APR...but there is another one which has been mentioned to me called 'Otinger'. I know I have spelt it incorrectly because I was reading about them the other day but am now unable to find anything on them, probably because my spelling is completely wrong! Doh!

As I said, I am in Australia so this could be a factor as to what I choose also. VW is not a significant player here, like they are in the UK (I lived in London for 13 years, so I know this and enjoyed many years of GTI and VR6 motoring). It is far more common here to see Subaru's etc chugging along with evry imaginable modification. Jap car losers I say!

Cheers in advance!

[Janner_Sy]

remapping and chipping are different methods of tuning but achieve the same aim.  A chip would be installed/soldered onto your ecu.  a remap overwrites the software on  you ECU and is purely an electronic upgrade.

stage 1 is for standard cars, stage 2 for cars with an exhaust, stage 2+ is for cars with an exhaust and uprated fuel pump. 

no idea what tuners you have over there though, ottinger is a german brand if i remember correctly

[danishmkvgti]

öttinger is a german tuning company that are owned by APR and share most of the software, meaning that they both offer a solution where you are able to change maps through your cruise control stalk. You also gain the possibility to erase error codes via the CC stalk and also a anti theft solution via the CC stalk. The software are to my understanding approved in 52 of the states and as such are pretty "safe" in it's settings. I have recieved great customer service via Arin and their tech guys. IMO at your level they'll offer a great package and the comfort of their CC stalk solution is unsurpassed.
Revo will to my understanding be better at optimize the software to your specific needs and as a counterstrike to APR's cc stalk solution they offer a SPS unit that allows you to tweak settings yourself within a safe margin. though the SPS is not so convient as the APR solution it is more oriented towards those that want to meddle themselves.

As a start get a free flowing filter and a good 3" turboback and you'll be smilling all day long when you get the car remapped. You won't look back   

[Janner_Sy]

öttinger is a german tuning company that are owned by APR and share most of the software, meaning that they both offer a solution where you are able to change maps through your cruise control stalk. You also gain the possibility to erase error codes via the CC stalk and also a anti theft solution via the CC stalk. The software are to my understanding approved in 52 of the states and as such are pretty "safe" in it's settings. I have recieved great customer service via Arin and their tech guys. IMO at your level they'll offer a great package and the comfort of their CC stalk solution is unsurpassed.

good good, ill have to look into some UK dealers if there are any, wouldnt mind trying APR for my 1.4TSI

[RedRobin]

good good, ill have to look into some UK dealers if there are any, wouldnt mind trying APR for my 1.4TSI

....I spoke to Kate at JKM recently about APR and they are offering APR remaps IIRC. 0239 263 9933.  

Please let me know if I was wrong and it's the APR hardware they're still doing.

[danishmkvgti]

good good, ill have to look into some UK dealers if there are any, wouldnt mind trying APR for my 1.4TSI

....I spoke to Kate at JKM recently about APR and they are offering APR remaps IIRC. 0239 263 9933.  

Please let me know if I was wrong and it's the APR hardware they're still doing.

I believe you are right RR, i believe they picked up where Awesome GTI left 

Janner_Sy yours is the twincharger right??

http://www.goapr.com/products/ecu_upgrade_14tsi_twin.html

[Janner_Sy]

thats the TSI (160) enginealthough it should be similar.  tabia runs the TSI (180).  Question  is have they bypassed the new encryptions.  Off to sned some emails...