M44 remap?

[Oldham1994]

Hi all, I've completed most of the major jobs and modifications on my car now and I was thinking about a remap to take advantage of it all. I was however booked in for a remap an hours drive away from me the other week only to find out when I got there, they didn't have the right kit to do it!! My car has the 20 pin obd connector in the engine bay so that might have something to do with it. So does anyone know how or where I can get my 1.9 Z remapped? If it's not possible, a chip would probably be my last resort but then again I've heard mixed opinions them.

Thanks

 

[Paul Rice]

Plenty of adapters about, if you buy the £18 air bag re set tool it comes with the adapter, be surprised if any tuner worth his salt didn't have this piece of kit? Would be really interested if you do get it done.

 

[Oldham1994]

Plenty of adapters about, if you buy the £18 air bag re set tool it comes with the adapter, be surprised if any tuner worth his salt didn't have this piece of kit? Would be really interested if you do get it done.

Yeah I have an adapter which I bought for my diagnostic reader which goes from the well known 18 pin OBD2 to the round 20 pin. I asked if that's what they needed but apparently what they needed was a "500-600 pound kit"

 

[Antm72]

My 2.8 was tuned but from the OBD11 port under the steering they should have access to the ecu through the 20 pin port but it might be they need a 20 pin to serial port adapter. The kit he used connected in and simultaneously connected to a laptop.
He pulled the map from the ecu copied it then set about altering it it was then uploaded back to the car.

 

[ZTec]

What difference did it make.

 

[hard top]

What difference did it make.

Probably very little on an M44.

 

[ZTec]

I had heard there was very little margin left on the M44.

 

[Antm72]

What difference did it make.

On my car it changed the entire power delivery.
It makes abit more power and more torque but its more the way it get up and goes and it pulls clean in all gears.
Fuel economy is still good if not better it was worth the money for me.

 

[billz]

To be honest. I would use the money on something also. You hardly get any gains apart from throttle response on the larger engines that are standard so you would get even less on the M44