APR Demo Flash for my MKV gti

[Guy_H]

wow nice........hope they finish the thing in time hahahaha

Yeah - they have been tuning the new 997 turbo, so I hope the back straight is long enough

[itgwv]

Talking about dyno's - the Sport compact car shootout on some heavily modified GTI's has just been published.

They had magazine editors, tuners, a rep from the dyno company present & they still had massive trouble with the DSG car on the dyno - ( you have to read the article - the sidebar called "dyno drama")

http://www.goapr.com.au/sportcompactcar0207.pdf

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Just read the article, i have a DSG car and didn't have any issues on 2 different dyno's and had fairly constant 140atw. And had none of this changing up at higher rev's that was mentioned. Peak power is gone by redline anyways. Only thing is most dyno's are all over the place for accuracy which means car could go from 135 at one place to 170 at another.

[Dr Spine]

I'm getting a 6 hour APR trial flash done on my DSG GTI tomorrow. It will be very interesting to see if the results live up to all the hype............If it does I guess that you couldn't call it hype though could you.

We'll see.

Report to come tomorrow night.

[Bing56]

Six hr trial has finished

Oh boy... my 6 hr demo on my apr flash has finished , What a difference. I feel like I'm driving a non turbo again....very boring Cant wait till I can afford the full flash download.

[Dr Spine]

Oh boy... my 6 hr demo on my apr flash has finished , What a difference. I feel like I'm driving a non turbo again....very boring Cant wait till I can afford the full flash download.

So you reckon it makes that much of a difference? I sure hope so!

Do you drive the DSG or the Manual?

[gtimk5]

You will be surprised Dr!!!
Tell us you dont notice a huge improvement and I will be very shocked!!!
Enjoy it mate!!!!
Bet you will go the program asap afterwards!!!!
Andrew

[Bing56]

Your dead if you dont notice the difference

The most noticable difference is the throttle response. As you know it is fly by wire. The APR mod appears to bring it all on (turbo boost that is) much quicker and there is no need to use the full gas peddle. Mainly because your changing gears that fast up to 4th, By then you are already well above the speed limit anyway (130 - 140Kmh). and it doesent slow down in 4th either, it just keeps pulling until you get to the stage of the likelyhood of messing your undies . I had mine up to around 225k's on a quiet road, that shall remain unknown, in 5th gear, at that stage it was time to Slip it into 6th and wind down so I could start breathing again: By the way there was no one else on the straight road and I'm not recomending this behaviour. Bad form really
I would not recommend taking the old lady for this sort of thing either. After all we purchased the car for its fuel economy, right!!. Any way if you don't like i'll be very surprised

[itgwv]

You will be surprised Dr!!!
Tell us you dont notice a huge improvement and I will be very shocked!!!
Enjoy it mate!!!!
Bet you will go the program asap afterwards!!!!
Andrew

hehehe once you up the power theres no turning back hey. Turns them into a serious performance car with even better effortless performance and from my expierence when i want to be frugal better fuel economy. And not sure about the APR version but the QSZ one i haven't had a single issue in over a year.

Probably should give our cars the catch cry of 'unleash the fury!'

[Dr Spine]

OK OK.....so far I'm impressed. It was raining in Toowoomba yesterday and I haven't really had the chance to "give it some stick". I have noticed that acceleration is harder and lasts longer before it changes gears. When I've got it in tiptronic it pushes me back into the seat harder throughout each gear more than it did before. I assume that it's the increase in Newton Metres.

Soon I'll take it out on the highway and then we'll see some more. Hmmmmmm now where is the rearest isolated quiet road?????

[Lima]

...the QSZ one i haven't had a single issue in over a year.

When you say "QSZ one" is that Wetterauer or AmD or summat else???

[PeterH]

Performance Box

There's a device called Performance Box made in the UK. See http://www.performancebox.co.uk
It uses GPS positioning to give speed readout accurate to 0.2 Km/h, which I think is pretty clever.
It also claims to be able to record 0-60 and 0-100km/h times and peak acceleration, among other things.
Only thing is it costs £348.07 shipped to Aust, which is about $860.
There is also an Australian distributor (Racer industries, Southport, Qld), wonder what they charge...
Magazines apparently use this to get a reliable, repeatable indication of performance between cars.

[itgwv]

When you say "QSZ one" is that Wetterauer or AmD or summat else???

The AmD reflash.

[Lima]

Thanks ... how do you like it? Any info on the AmD reflash would be most appreciated.

Thanks Liam

[itgwv]

To be honest the car feels as good as it did stock with smoothness and cruising but when you press more than a quarter on the accellerator the huge amount of torque just shoves you into the seat effortlessly. Feels like the way the car should come from the factory.

Power wise is somewhere between 185 to 200 and about 380Nm depending on if you have exhaust also done, have left the stock air box so as not to upset the cars electronics. I use to have a WRX and feels as quick if not a little quicker and as a package i have no problems keeping up on a mountain run if not dissapearing up the road.

On side note the Mrs also has a Mini Cooper S. Also a quick little bugger.

[Lima]

Haha, jinx!