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Just thinking about an ECU remap

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rashg60:
Brilliant results!
I bet you're well pleased with that. Feels like a different car right?

AJP:
Yep, very pleased. I've had remaps on a few other cars, and I'd say the mk5 has responded the best out of the lot. Testament to R-Tech and testament to the car.

rashg60:
I've never had a remap on any previous car but love this one with the map. Apart from the minor issues I had and ironed out, this car is now awesome. I wouldn't want mental power from a GTI and I believe this is enough power coming from the car. Smooth power delivery in all the rev range in all the gears.

Only ever experienced a friends mk4 TDI in the past which was mapped and that was awesome. I think he did a tonne of other stuff to it too and it was like 300bhp and with some silly torque figures (those TDIs were torquey anyway!).

Keep us posted if you decide to do anything else to it. I'm leaving mine alone for a while now......

AJP:
Incidentally mine now feels like a mapped tdi at low revs - foot down at 60mph in 6th and the torque really pulls you along effortlessly - nothing like the standard car.

I think that's what I like the most, being able to pick up speed so easily at low to mid revs, not having to bang through the box and ask lots of the engine to make progress. It's got that muscular feel from way down at 2500rpm, probably helped by the smaller k03, but also unquestionably a really good map. Of course where the diesels give up, at around 4000rpm, it really gets rapid. Going through the gears to peak power at around 6k is just so addictive, but still smooth and refined. Things sound angrier with the map, even with standard hardware. And when it's time to be sensible it goes back to its quiet, best behaviour, as if it never just hurled you down that A-road screaming its head off. 

It didn't quite manage that without the map, didn't have quite enough torque and urgency to induce the post-roundabout grin that a properly quick car can.

With a good upgrade to the brakes (I'm looking at TTRS), and a couple of minor suspension tweaks, I'll be more than happy with my 'new' GTI..

That wouldn't be the case without the map. Brilliant stuff.

numec:
Reading this making me wanting to  get off from the 'stock standard' ship and join the stage 1 gang too..decisions decisions..

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