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I want to Chip the motor, but I dont want the Company to find out. Ideas on a postcard pls?
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Lee Shand
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payrollman
17-05-2001, 13:27
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Cupraman:
I want to Chip the motor, but I dont want the Company to find out. Ideas on a postcard pls?
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If you chip the motor I will take it away from you.
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Shit, Busted.
Re-mapping here I come.
MUHAHAHAHAHA
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Lee Shand
www.seatcupra.net (http://www.seatcupra.net)
you know it has to be an AmD remap. not sure about the increase, but i know jb can price it (this isn't too comercial is it?)
nice trip to Oxfordshire
http://www.auto-amd.com/
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Mark P
www.SEAT-Sport.co.uk
I think the increase was mentioned to be 50BHP not too sure what the Torque increase was.
Might be well worth it though, I want to get Sub 7.0 Seconds.
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Lee Shand
www.seatcupra.net (http://www.seatcupra.net)
m_hickman
20-05-2001, 13:28
I've had my car done ay AmD through sjb. It took the power up to 203bhp with just the chip, and it cost me just over £600
I was looking for at least 220. Not sure if thats possible. I have a Leon BTW.
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Lee Shand
www.seatcupra.net (http://www.seatcupra.net)
the AmD remap only gets up to about 195bhp.
if you want more it costs £££££ and needs a new, bigger turbo & inlet track etc.
very noticable on lifting the bonnet
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Mark P
www.SEAT-Sport.co.uk
How are the chips fitted ? Is it in the diag port so it can be removed (for warranty/insurance claims) ?
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mleonard
21-05-2001, 15:39
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Phil:
How are the chips fitted ? Is it in the diag port so it can be removed (for warranty/insurance claims) ?
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The chip is fitted into the ECU in place of the original chip. It is very hard for someone to recognise it as a performance chip without hooking equipment up to it. On the other hand, you can buy Piggyback chip that sit on top of your existing chip and can be taken off if need (insurance for example)
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Martin
granteuk
23-05-2001, 13:16
cupraman - you dont say what car you have.
if you want to chip an ibiza 20vt - then you can have about 40bhp from a chip plus another 5-6 for modifying the inlet tracts to the turbo.
if its a leon - you can only get about 15bhp from a chip plus another 5-6 from inlet tract modifying, and a few more for repositioning the intercooler i believe.
to get it up above 220 you need to start messing with bigger turbos.
RSD can happily do a 240bhp conversion to a leon. the link is in the 'commercial link section' funnily enough.
hope this helps.
>grant.
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granteuk
23-05-2001, 13:19
p.s
what is this company you work for?
i want to work for a company who's company cars are 20vt's...
*******s.
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Its Leon Cupra mate. And the company car is optional. Could have had an S3, drove one, did not like it.
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Lee Shand
www.seatcupra.net (http://www.seatcupra.net)
payrollman
24-05-2001, 12:56
Why didn't you like the S3? Was it too fast for you.
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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by payrollman:
Why didn't you like the S3? Was it too fast for you.
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He told me it was too "Essex"
:p
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Yeah, too Essex. To many of them around. I have seen only 1 Leon Cupra since I have had mine.
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Lee Shand
www.seatcupra.net (http://www.seatcupra.net)
payrollman
25-05-2001, 16:18
Yeah right, like you never drive around Essex in yer Citroen.
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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by payrollman:
Yeah right, like you never drive around Essex in yer Citroen.
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It's the WIFE's car!!
Mine's the bike, honest, with the Ducati on order...
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payrollman
01-06-2001, 12:28
What bike do you have?
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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by payrollman:
What bike do you have?
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Currently a Honda RVF (pics on my homepage - link below) but I've been looking at getting a cheap Kwak ZX7R over the last couple of days - I'm going to look at one tomorrow.
Next bike is a Ducati 748 though :D
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payrollman
01-06-2001, 16:48
Nice bike. I've got a ZX6R. I've recently looked at the 748 but it was very uncomfortable, the tank sticks into your stomach and it squashes your nuts. Ducati are replaceing the 996 soon so i would have thought a replacement 748 would be around soon after. Still the best looking bike bar the MV Augusta.
New GSXR600 looks a good bike.
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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by payrollman:
Ducati are replacing the 996 soon so i would have thought a replacement 748 would be around soon after. Still the best looking bike bar the MV Augusta. New GSXR600 looks a good bike.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Ducati have confirmed (at least according to yesterday's MCN, so it could be complete bollocks) that they won't be replacing the 996 for a few years as yet. The new testastretta engine from the 996R will work its way through the models, with further updates as well.
IMHO, the bikes still looks out of this world today, even though it is over ten years old! There's an MV that parks just outside the Shooting Star pub (you know where that is) and the thing is tiny, much smaller than a 996 and I agree that it is a piece of art.
I was quite tempted by the new GSXR750, but the fact you can pick up a 2 year old ZX7R with 5K miles on it for under 4 grand sort of swings it for me!
Where else can you get sub 4 second 0-60 and 165mph performance for that sort of money? Not in a SEAT, that's for sure
:D :D :D :D
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[This message has been edited by antonye (edited 01 June 2001).]
payrollman
01-06-2001, 16:58
Carnell are offering cheap Ducati's, check the motorcycle news website.
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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by payrollman:
Carnell are offering cheap Ducati's, check the motorcycle news website. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
I'm tempted ... but I really wouldn't want to buy one from Carnell/Shitty. I supposed if you bought from them and got it serviced by an official Ducati dealer it would be ok, but it would just be a real hassle for warranty stuff.
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payrollman
04-06-2001, 19:13
How was the ZX7R????
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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by payrollman:
How was the ZX7R????<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Went and had a look: T-Reg with 5,000 miles on the clock for 4250. It looked ok, but it had only come in a few hours before as a trade so it needed a good tidy.
They would only offer me 2400 for mine, as he already had one in the shop (which was older than mine) for 3500! So I told him to f@ck off and walked away.
This really pisses me off because the bike had not even spent an hour on the shop floor and he could have sold it. He was probably making a good 500/600 quid profit on it compared to the trade in he wanted to give me, which isn't bad for an hour's work. He'd sell the RVF no problem, but it might take him a couple of weeks longer. But I guess that's why he's still a small outfit with a dozen bikes.
I popped into the Ducati dealers on the way back who offered me 3600 for it traded against a new 748 with some pretty good finance rates. They then (rather stupidly) gave me the keys and let me out on the demo bike.
The grin started as soon as I left the dealers and hadn't even got 200 yards down the road when I knew this was the one for me.
The sound is phenomenal and it was running standard Ducati pipes - christ knows what the Termigs sound like!
Compared to the RVF it was much taller and felt like I was sitting on it rather than in it, which was weird to start off with but after a while I got used to it and found it had much more room than the RVF, although the seat position was more thrown forward onto the front. It's also very narrow and it felt like it would be a long, long way to lean it over into a corner. You don't appreciate this when you see the racing on the TV and they're cranked right over.
Riding it was beautiful as it just stomped out of the corners pulling all the way through the gears. I bounced it off the rev limiter a couple of times but this was my fault as I'm used to hearing a screaming 14,500 red line and the accompanying high-pitched whine of the V4 rather than the low booming V-twin.
It also goes like stink and it's very, very easy to speed on it. I really had to keep an eye on the speedo as I kept finding myself doing well over *cough*100*cough* very easily - it only felt like 80 compared to the RVF.
Even the nice dealer said "you didn't want to bring it back, did you?" when I finally went back half an hour later. I think the grin said it all and it still hasn't worn off yet!
The only problem is insurance - I got some quotes on a second hand, 5-grand R-reg which came out at 355 quid with my existing policy (less than the ZX7R!) BUT they would not insure me on a new bike for some reason. I got a quote of 452 for a new policy (through Zenith) but as I'll be finishing six-months through the policy I'll probably get sod-all rebate and loose the part way to another year no claims.
So I seem to have been put off the idea of a ZX7R for the time being while I look for a second-hand 748
:D :D :D :D
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[This message has been edited by antonye (edited 05 June 2001).]