would these produce the figures stated?????

[gudger12345]

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Performance-mod-Chip-for-Aud...

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/AUDI-S3-1-8-T-1-8T-Turbo-20V...

[Dr G]

Would suggest you take a step back before making the dive - look at the quality of the information offered by the reputable tuners before you buy a bargain bin mod from ebay...

It might work fine, it might be a 100 quid piece of junk that will blow your engine to bits.

[istoo]

agree with above completely

Get that up to a few hundred quid and get a reputable remap. Shop around and there are often group days with various clubs at abc reputable tuners which will is worth it. I did have a remap on my last 2.5tdi quattro sport, but was never happy with it and got a full refund and a reset on the car... for reference that was with Upsolute, that is well worth every penny. There are he same names that keep cropping up for these, off my head i would say Revo, AMD, Upsolute or Jabba.

[missing the VR6]

I appreciate this might open a whole can of worms, but I'd be very surprised if a generic chip could produce those power figures.

[Tame Technician]

A generic upgrade chip, rather than a bespoke map, will not be as good. But it should still work, but if there selling them on ebay they might not even be that could be a chip from a video recorder.

I dont really know how many companies offering remaps actually do a bespoke map and not just upload known good data into the ECU.

I had great success with Cosworths and generic chips, told they tuner what PSI of boost and What injectors were fitted, and you got a generic chip for that setup. But that was 10 years ago and engine management has moved on a bit.

But how exactly are you going to mount the chip inside the ECU?? if its soldered to the board, rather than having a multi sprung socket, one slip and you've destroyed your new £100 chip and your £1000 engine ECU.

[blueg33]

"chip will be dispatched from Lithuania" that well known centre of engine management expertise!

[SuperchargedVR6]

missing the VR6 said:

I appreciate this might open a whole can of worms, but I'd be very surprised if a generic chip could produce those power figures.

Those figures are expected for the boost levels. There's no magic or mystery to remapping an engine and modern ECUs have made it even easier for the myriad of tuners to stick a bit of generic code up the serial port.

[missing the VR6]

I just found when I was looking into having my 1.8T A3 done I was told by various companies different figures and none as high as the increase offered by this reputable Lithuanian motorsport company!!! I was quoted between 25bhp and 40 bhp.