turbos are a different ball game, most of the gain comes from increasing boost and matching fuelling for the extra boost. chalk and cheese. i was waiting for someone to pep up about turbos though.
Do you do the EDS XE chips? A guy on club calibra from Norway said they definatly give a good improvement. He said they claim 15bhp at the top end with 25 bhp midrange which i think is very hard to believe. If you do stock them, how much and what gains can be got?
I find it slightly strange that you stock superchips when it is claimed by most, even on here that they do next to nothing for the XE. What is your veiw on them?
Do you do the EDS XE chips? A guy on club calibra from Norway said they definatly give a good improvement. He said they claim 15bhp at the top end with 25 bhp midrange which i think is very hard to believe. If you do stock them, how much and what gains can be got?
I find it slightly strange that you stock superchips when it is claimed by most, even on here that they do next to nothing for the XE. What is your veiw on them?
Gains are - as you say - 15BHP top end and about 25BHP throughout the drive.
Price for these is £249
I am not actually a superchip dealer, the work is sub contracted to a dealer in scotland. TBH, I don't rate them very well at all hence I try to stay with specialists.
The chip will give an OVERALL increase of about 25BHP throughout the rev range meaning at various positions at max load giving the overall sum an increase of about 25BHP.
its just a little confusing, you get more power from increasing fuel and air. a chip cant increase air, the only way it could gain anything is to optimise fuelling across the rev range. I dont see how anything could claim to do this without making it unique to each engine, in which case it has to be a "best guess"
a 40 quid fuel pressure regulator would do the same.
first off, 20SE is an engine code for a 2 litre engine, second your 1.8 is single point injection, these engines are like squeezing blood from a stone. I wouldnt even try and tune it, it was built as an economy engine.
its just a little confusing, you get more power from increasing fuel and air. a chip cant increase air, the only way it could gain anything is to optimise fuelling across the rev range. I dont see how anything could claim to do this without making it unique to each engine, in which case it has to be a "best guess"
its just a little confusing, you get more power from increasing fuel and air. a chip cant increase air, the only way it could gain anything is to optimise fuelling across the rev range. I dont see how anything could claim to do this without making it unique to each engine, in which case it has to be a "best guess"
this is interesting Gav, would you be able to give mig a demo? i am sure weekenny or someone who can give a decent comparison would like to try one out (round knockhill say) and report back.
Weekenny is a knockhill regular and im sure he would let you plug a chip in for a few laps and tell you the difference. He knows how to drive so would give you goodfeedback.
Would be worth doing, i would deffo come down to be an offical iducator.
I was speaking to Not Normal yesterday about a customer of V-Tuning. He had a superchip on his C20XE and changed it for an EDS chip. The owner is extremely impressed with it, even though he had already had a Superchip on it. Over standard there would be a greaterimprovment.
If I had a standard C20XE I would certainly go with this chip over any other at the moment.
It would be good to have a few other try it out though.
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