Diy Tuning

[Puffwagon]

Yep. No doubt there are false knock readings that can be tuned out with the knock maps using knock ears.

 

You'd have to be mad to let the car be able to pull any less than 6 degrees with 98 octane imo.

[eff xr6t]

You will all "eeekkk" at who had tuned his car previously as they hold arguably the fastest reputation in the land 
 
right or wrong there's zero need to do some of the things they had done and it's all very common in big workshops doing "rush" tuning ( some of the things that were done ) 
 
the problem is his car's not running right and we will help him get it to a point where it will

So it's not only their exhaust systems that are sh*t. No surprises really 99% of them do the same sh*t.

[JETURBO]

At least puffy can read haha good quoting as it's saved me doing it 

 

you got it eff 

[Romulus]

Having read this thread I concur with the sentiments of JETURBO. There's a lot of cut and paste tuning done, torque tags switched off, injector settings completely wrong and so on and so forth.

 

There's a reason why my setup manages over 450rwkw on the stock engine with the stock automatic transmission with over 15,000k's running on E85 without a single component failure. I don't pretend the factory gear to last forever; it was never intended to cope with double power and torque output, but I'm dubious about claims going back to the BA MkI when a reputable company said you need a $10-15k engine build for power levels above 300rwkw. I know of BA MkI's with 350-400rwkw with stock engines that were driven like they were stolen and never chucked rods........

[Puffwagon]

Haha ya gotta read sometimes Jet.

[rollex]

25 minutes ago, JETURBO said:

At least puffy can read haha good quoting as it's saved me doing it 

 

you got it eff 

I was asking if there were other issues, not specifically those ones.

[JETURBO]

Yeh there's just some lazy timing scales and fuel maps , I'm probably a touch more pedantic than some but I like everything to blend smoothly vs big jumps 

 

Stock engine,trans competition hey haha I'll be in that at 560rwkw 

 

[Puffwagon]

Man pressing the interpolate button is the best part! 

[demon1300]

6 hours ago, xr6tForMe said:

Great stuff Rob/demon1300! 

 

I am hoping to take the plunge with tuning my own car in the future as well.

Look like you have made a very good start.

What you found would make you wonder about how many paid for tunes have problems.

 

Cheers mate.  It's been a real eye opener already and its only a day in...

 

It really just blows me away that some of these workshops can tune like this and all is considered normal.  Definitely the lack of feedback in the community back to tuners most likely due to lack of knowledge, understanding or tools (or combination of all) really has meant that any 'joe bloggs' can buy a HP tuners or SCT software package and call themselves a tuner....  I'm sure people like JET that see these things on a daily basis really does sometimes just ask, WHY!?  I get that tuning a car is a time consuming process and that to do it right you'd need to charge more, but bloody hell!

 

3 hours ago, JETURBO said:

You will all "eeekkk" at who had tuned his car previously as they hold arguably the fastest reputation in the land 

 

right or wrong there's zero need to do some of the things they had done and it's all very common in big workshops doing "rush" tuning ( some of the things that were done ) 

 

the problem is his car's not running right and we will help him get it to a point where it will  

 

ps I'll get back to that email last night this arvo, just on the dyno tuning some black BA turbo hey @Box stock T.  

 

 

 

No problems mate, I realise you've actually got a business to run   It hasn't hand grenaded yet, so I'm sure a few days won't hurt.

 

2 hours ago, turbotrana said:

I do recommend the SPA Turbo VLRPF204 adjustable fuel pressure regulator. I have been using it for 2 year and bolts straight in pretty much.

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/VW-GOLF-Passat-1-8T-in-rail-Adjustable-Fuel-Pressure-Regulator-FPR-VLRPF204-/182191670350?hash=item2a6b78444e:g:VGoAAOSwCGVX9UPt

 

They are cheap also.

 

Your trims are way off.

 

Start with a stock tune and scale the injectors.

 

An FG engine is well protected, it will pull all timing on a stock map. Don't be scared, one step at a time, just make sure your fuel system is set up right.

 

 

Read everything on the HP tuners forum. Everything you need to know is there or on the net.

 

Yeah I might look into this.  I was thinking of just permanently mounting a remote sensor so that I can log live fuel pressure when I do decide to do some tuning.  Could just wire it up to another analogue in on the MPVI.  It's just a bugger they don't log it from factory in the PCM....!

 

I do honestly want to almost start from scratch.  I'm going tonight to my local guy who pulled the SCT off the car, so he should have the factory map that came out of the XCAL4 before being flashed to the wonderful land of HPT.  If not, I'm sure the XCAL still has the stock tune stored on it?  Or is that wiped once its un-married?

 

Cheers,

 

Rob

[Puffwagon]

There are a bunch of stock tunes in the hp tuners tune repository.