i dont understand remaps that are sold for stock cars that lead to clutch slippage.
You should be able to request them to remove it or modify it if its not suitable for a stock car and they have not stated that uprated parts are needed.
I suspect if remapping companies advertised
lower peak power and/or torque figures, or suggesting owners would need to fork out £100s on uprated clutches etc, they'd lose out to the competition...
The majority of people buying remaps just want big headline figures, they don't understand or look further into the way it's delivered by different remaps. Many won't even know the difference between torque and power, and where in the rev range the peaks of both occur. They just want big figures - so that's what the remap companies offer.
I asked for my map to be tailored to knock back the peak torque figure just slightly, effectively the peak is just slightly flattened off through a narrow section of the rev range where the torque output exceeds the clutch limit, everywhere else it's the same as the normal remap. Even in that narrow band it's still a big increase over standard.
Peak power figures at the top end of the rev range remain the same as the normal remap, around 175bhp (Awesome's RR).
I've had the same remap on both Passats now, and the clutch has never slipped once in many tens of thousands of miles, both standard clutches still going strong
well beyond 100k miles whereas before having the torque levels capped, the slightest hint of gentle throttle (read: not abusive on/off throttle use) in normal cruising conditions would have it sounding like an automatic....
