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What remap would you recommend? Mk5 gti DSG
JackL15:
R-Tech always do a good job, I made 282bhp and 347 torque at stage 2.
RetroRaz:
R tech didn't do switchable maps for me on my dsg. Niki said they dont.
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MIJ_JAGGER:
--- Quote from: AJP on January 05, 2017, 09:03:57 pm ---Megapower Maps. Swear by them. Bloke named Darren does it all with a laptop, only takes about 15 minutes, and he insists on coming to you to do the live remapping. How about that for a mobile service. He only works weekends though, and only takes cash.
Car pulls like a train now, makes all sorts of pops and bangs. Kind of like a rally car. I've got some warning lights on the dash now, but he said it's normal, just like the smoke and the whistling noise. He says that all remaps are the same as the file he's got on his laptop from his mate that works in F1, and you're just paying for the name by going to a big flashy tuner. Who am I to argue? Best 80 quid I've spent.
Only downside is I can't get hold of him to do a Stage 2 map. He must just be on holiday or something.
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Lol
Tenner more I'm sure he can map it to fly
Madone:
R-tech don't do switchable on stage 2+, I didn't get it or even offered it, I asked and was told they don't do it.
This whole thing about R-tech being custom and tailored to your car is great PR for them, but such a urban myth. You get about 3 hours on the dyno (they do 3 cars a day), which essentially entails them loading their 'generic map' then tweaking it to squeeze your car, not for drivability, but for max power. If you watch them tune there is zero part throttle tuning, you just get a series of full throttle runs to the limiter, that's not custom (I think I counted 5 runs total for my car) that's extracting every ounce from your car before the hardware you have can't do any more. Most of that 3 hours is taken with loading changes into the ecu.
They are priced well and know their stuff but to say they are custom maps is only partly true at best. I have had both RTech, revo, Superchips and APR maps, I know APR and Revo spend huge amounts of time and money on their maps for feel and drive ability, part and full throttle. For me revo was the best feeling map. As pudding said, too many people chase headline numbers.
Horses for courses, loads of people like rtech and they know their stuff, but not sure half of the people even try anything else as they just get told to 'go to rtech' ! No one can tune the TFSI. Revo drove better in my humble opinion :laugh:
GrayMK5GTI:
--- Quote from: Madone on January 07, 2017, 09:11:15 am ---R-tech don't do switchable on stage 2+, I didn't get it or even offered it, I asked and was told they don't do it.
100% do, but may only be on ECUs which accept it. My bro-in-law had it on his 2+ DSG 6R.
This whole thing about R-tech being custom and tailored to your car is great PR for them, but such a urban myth. You get about 3 hours on the dyno (they do 3 cars a day), which essentially entails them loading their 'generic map' then tweaking it to squeeze your car, not for drivability, but for max power. If you watch them tune there is zero part throttle tuning, you just get a series of full throttle runs to the limiter, that's not custom (I think I counted 5 runs total for my car) that's extracting every ounce from your car before the hardware you have can't do any more. Most of that 3 hours is taken with loading changes into the ecu.
the base map has had hours of R&D for the part-throttle and load-maps, there is no need to tweak them - that would take forever on each individual load & throttle position. Never hear of anyone complain about part-throttle drivability, as it's perfect :happy2: The custom element of a map is to tailor the map to the specific mods, the difference between a cat back and just a DP do not make any difference at part-throttle
They are priced well and know their stuff but to say they are custom maps is only partly true at best. I have had both RTech, revo, Superchips and APR maps, I know APR and Revo spend huge amounts of time and money on their maps for feel and drive ability, part and full throttle. For me revo was the best feeling map. As pudding said, too many people chase headline numbers.
R-Tech typically aim for the best results which are possible with the hardware, as that's what 99% of people want. If you say, cap torque and X xxlb/ft (which people do for clutches) then they do it
Horses for courses, loads of people like rtech and they know their stuff, but not sure half of the people even try anything else as they just get told to 'go to rtech' ! No one can tune the TFSI. Revo drove better in my humble opinion :laugh:
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Revo K04 map (I've driven) is mighty aggressive (which is fun), but the map boosts straight through the K04 surge point (making cho-cho noise with intake) which to me smacks of poor development as others (APR IIRC) and R-Tech map round it and offer a smoother drive. With any custom map, you get in what you get out. If you ask for xx you get xx, you get out of a custom map, with whatever you put in don't ask. . . Don't get.
R-Tech also give you a load of extras for free which are either not available with other maps, or are chargeable.
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