I've mentioned on a few threads that I've been massively underwhelmed with my Revo Stage 1 map in comparison to the Storm & PDT maps. I mentioned this on a thread on their Facebook page, and they invited me up to HQ in Daventry today.
I met Kevin there who took the car out, datalogged it and came back reporting that it felt almost stock, and the reason for this was that, although the map was on, there were no settings! Not QUITE sure why this was, but I've been underwhelmed by it since it was done in September, so it's not something that's recently occurred. No wonder I thought Revo was over-rated!! A big thanks to Kevin @ Revo for sorting it out for me.
Anyway, I took it out with it's new settings and OH MY FUC*ING GOD!!
It is so much quicker, particularly in the low rev range, but still massively quicker throughout the whole range. The torque is outrageous, sitting on the motorway doing 60 in 6th, I put the foot into the carpet and it just flies away like a big diesel! Back in love with my car. It feels quicker than my old car with PDT Stage 1 (which is a cracking drive, brilliant map) But it is also more economical than the Storm map. I got into the mid forties mpg driving sensibly around the A roads leading back to the M1. I never got that before. On the way up driving sensibly at between 60 and 70 I got 32.5mpg on a 91 mile trip, on the return journey, I got 35.7, and I was having a lot more fun, particularly with the torque! The acceleration for over-taking is in a different league now, and I've got that buzz back to just go out and drive for fun again that I used to get with my old PDT mapped car, and this one when it had a Storm map.
But is it worth the extra dough? I'm not sure how big a gain the performance is against my old car (PDT). As I'm still insured on it, I might ask her If I can take it for a 'gentle'cruise' and then drive mine immediately after. However, if the fuel economy gains are the same in my area with my normal driving, then i'd say probably.
