ECU Remapping/Chipping/Tuning?

[Quattravant]

Anybody have any experience or knowledge of this?
Is it worth doing?
Is the performance increase significant?
Does it wreck the mpg?
Does it make the engine rougher under normal driving for the sake of increased performance?

Pros & cons please from anyone in-the-know.
Thanks

[RichterSport]

Have a look at just bought Q7 3.0TDI S-Line thread. This is the same engine as your A6 & bungle seems very happy with his remap.

[NoVA_A6]

Are there any upgrades in the US for the 3.2L? I can't find much information at all.

[RichterSport]

Hi,
Have you tried HPA I believe they do a turbo conversion.

[NoVA_A6]

How much would something like a turbo upgrade cost? It may be an option, just I've used chip upgrades in my Saab and it was a fast easy way to add HP.

[Quattravant]

Originally Posted by RichterSport

Have a look at just bought Q7 3.0TDI S-Line thread. This is the same engine as your A6 & bungle seems very happy with his remap.

Thanks, that was a useful thread (for the dvd + screens as well)

[jopereira]

Originally Posted by Quattravant

Anybody have any experience or knowledge of this?
Is it worth doing?
Is the performance increase significant?
Does it wreck the mpg?
Does it make the engine rougher under normal driving for the sake of increased performance?

Pros & cons please from anyone in-the-know.
Thanks

1) Yes, very worth it!! Well you already have a very good engine, but you can gain a lot.

2) Very significant!

3) No, mpg stays the same as long as you don't use the extra power. It's a fair compromise. My car still do the same mpg at same speed.

4) Rougher??! Well my wheel have some dificult staying in the ground...
No. To be honest I was expecting same kind bad behaviour, but the engine keeps it's linearity.

I made an upgrade to my 2.0TDI and the car became (much) 'lighter', stronger and much more usable. I can now get to 235 km/h (measured with a GPS device; the car indicates about 250Km/h) but only because the cars is already 'cutting' power from engine (red line, at about 4700 rpm)

See Superchips - Rediscover the joy of the open road.

[Quattravant]

Originally Posted by jopereira

1) Yes, very worth it!! Well you already have a very good engine, but you can gain a lot.

2) Very significant! ...........................

Thanks for the response - it's good to hear someone's first-hand experience.