david1972 Posted April 2, 2015 Share Posted April 2, 2015 The reason I ask this is that when I went for my SS exhaust a few weeks ago, the guy who fitted it was telling me about an old VW Golf TDI he'd just bought cheap and was getting mapped from 130bhp to 180bhp :o he reckoned it was an easy job for that engine. So - my question is can the scoob boxer diesel unit be mapped and if so, what bhp and economy increase could you expect to achieve? - has anyone had it done yet? I'm thinking it could make the XV a bit of a stealthy rocket possibly :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stants Posted April 2, 2015 Share Posted April 2, 2015 Don't see why not uses the same ecu's as the petrol ones, Probably involves dpf removal as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awebb320 Posted April 2, 2015 Share Posted April 2, 2015 superchips do one as far as im aware. Alex Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JusNoGood Posted April 3, 2015 Share Posted April 3, 2015 I would expect the golf to have a some supporting mods to get an increase of 50bhp...I'd guess similar to petrol...air filter, fuel pump, back box or exhaust....but only guessing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david1972 Posted April 3, 2015 Author Share Posted April 3, 2015 He didn't say so, but you never know. I just thought it was one hell of a jump Sent from my iphone using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tom_gr7 Posted April 3, 2015 Share Posted April 3, 2015 I was thinking the same thing the other day. I've got a mate with a diesel 1.9 vectra who's gone from 150 up to 190 with a remap and no mods at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JusNoGood Posted April 3, 2015 Share Posted April 3, 2015 That's impressive [emoji2] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr B Posted April 3, 2015 Share Posted April 3, 2015 pretty easy on a diesel get quite chunk of power without much supporting changes, diesel power is very much linked to amount of diesel injected & air ratio to fuel is not such a fine tolerance as petrol . stress on engine & fuel economy are major downfalls. Newer diesels will have limitations how far go as dpf will be a major restriction for a start & potential for problems & hard to work around with legal emision requirements. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
confusedbrog Posted April 5, 2015 Share Posted April 5, 2015 I would expect the golf to have a some supporting mods to get an increase of 50bhp...I'd guess similar to petrol...air filter, fuel pump, back box or exhaust....but only guessing. Not lot of VAG engines respond really well to a remap without any other parts. I had a mk4 golf get the 150 and looked into a remap, 260bhp + was quoted by the good tuners such as revo. The latest golf R and gti have been getting gains of up to 70 bhp from just a remap, it's like VW are holding them back but it passes me off that I would have to buy a full system, air filter and then a remap and still get nowhere near these gains. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
confusedbrog Posted April 5, 2015 Share Posted April 5, 2015 *200bhp not 260 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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