Citroen Xsara Hdi
Not normally viewed as your average road burner, the 90bhp/154lb ft Xsara is given a completely different perspective with an additional 30bhp / 28lb ft. Acceleration is now brisk and overtaking no longer a book in advance requirement. A number of these cars are used for towing, where the additional torque low down really comes into play. Fuel economy has remained the same with this under normal use too.

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Fiat 1242 16v, Stilo, Bravo/a & Punto

Whilst the remap only provides an additional 8bhp and 9 lb ft torque it makes a noticeable difference in delivery. Acceleration from a standstill in 1st to 3rd is much smoother and the drop down into 4th doesn't suffer from the often felt flat spot. This remap isn't enough to pin you into your seat, but the 10% power increase makes the car sparkle and more enjoyable to drive. Obviously the difference is felt more in the Punto than the Stilo because of the weight.

Kevin said of his Bravo post the remap "When the car is heavy - 4 peeps or more it used to be sooo slow - now it picks up revs and goes regardless. (biggest difference)", he went on to say "But most of all my fave improvemnt is just the feeling of general driving - the throttle response is better and its lost that feeling of it not actually pulling

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Fiat 1910 JTD Punto
Wow! Our remap provides somewhere near 125bhp form the original 80bhp without any further modification. Torque is up to over 190 lb ft which makes acceleration very brisk from a standstill, and mid range punch for overtaking with or without dropping down a gear is stunning. The top speed is far more than we would promote but lets just say you will immediately receive a lengthy ban!

The fuel consumption we achieved before the remap was 45.8 mpg on average, after this remap it improved to over 48mpg. We can't understand why it should improve that much as we were expecting it to decrease slightly and will ask people to expect that to occur rather than improve. On one 220 mile round motorway trip (including the M25) we achieved over 52mpg - at an average mph of,  well lets just say 70 shall we!

One issue that occurs on a number of standard Punto is with selection issue on the gearbox. We have had no issue with ours in over 4000 miles of hard testing so we think it is a case of if you were going to have problems, the remap is not going to make any difference to this. Lastly all the additional torque may induce a small clutch slip at peak torque on high mileage versions or on clutches that have been "ridden". Our demo car had slip even before we remapped it (28,000 miles - 3 years old) but it hasn't got any worse since.

I took a guy out in a demo who went white after 1/2 a mile and said "OK I think you have proved its quick....can we slow down now"

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Fiat 1910 JTD Bravo / Stilo
If we take the original 105 bhp as a starting point, which wasn't the most enthralling car to drive, we can remap this to somewhere in the region of 150 plus bhp. This takes this into the Bravo HGT performance territory, for anyone who has ever driven one of these! The long term testing on this has thrown up a decrease of 2 mpg on the consumption but apparently the grin hasn't worn off anyone yet! This remap is of course available on all JTD Bravo/a and the newer Stilo, even if it is billed as a 100, 105, 110 or 115 bhp version.

If 150 plus bhp sounds a bit too much for you we can provide a detuned version of circa 130 bhp, although no-one has asked for it as the car can easily handle the additional power with only the slight decrease in economy being the pay off for having it.

I think the best line we receivced on this is from a Brava owner,   Pete,  when we asked him how it was going.... "still grinning from ear to ear"!

We may tell you his other quote if you ask us, but we can't put it here in case it offends anyone!

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Fiat Multipla 1910 JTD
We love these cars to bits! Whilst we do not have one, nor have we ever owned one long term we have worked closely with the Fiat Multipla Owners club to test and refine our remapping work.

The Multipla Mad Map (or mmm as we call it!) OK this is not for the feint hearted. We can remap the Multi to over 155 bhp (105 - 115 starting point) which gives sub 10 second acceleration, enough to pin the kids to the rear window if they are not expecting it. The fuel consumption on this conversion is between 43 and 45 mpg, however you must be prepared for the odd puff of smoke on full, hard acceleration and you will find that at peak torque the clutch will slip slightly in 4th if used all the time. This map is ideal if you can tame your right foot and use the peak power only when you need it. We would also not recommend this if you do a lot of towing as the power is a bit higher up the rev range and the clutch issue on high milers comes into play again.

The "Sensible" map. This is a detuned version of our Multipla map which comes out at around 130bhp. This significantly improves the drivability of the car and moves it along a considerably brisk pace. There are no high mileage clutch issues nor any puffs of black smoke and is ideal for towing. Economy is around the mid 45's as well.

Click here to read about this on the Multipla Owners Club Site

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Alfa Romeo 156 1.8 T Spark
The 1.8 started life with 140 bhp as opposed to the 2.0 150 plus power. With a remap we can take the 1.8 to the performance of the 2.0, with smoother delivery across the range and improved acceleration. It is not going to turn your 1.8 into a fire breathing V6 beater though. This work requires us to take the ECU off the car and read it as it cannot be done from the OBD socket so be prepared for us to wield our trusty 10mm drive.

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Alfa Romeo 156 2.0 T Spark (including Selespeed)
Our remap will add some 12 to 15 bhp to the original 155 bhp making a markable improvement in drivability and mid range acceleration. Fuel consumption is around the same as before the remap. This work requires us to take the ECU off the car and read it as it cannot be done from the OBD socket so be prepared for us to wield our trusty 10mm drive.

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Alfa Romeo 156 2.4 JTD  (Also Fiat Marea 130)
This is our favourite car to do. The power increase is phenomenal and without pay off. We can take even the original 136bhp Euro 2 version of this engine to over 190bhp and near 300 lb ft torque, an immense increase. Driving the car now is akin to driving a 2.5 V6, with power all the way up the rev range. Acceleration is below 8 seconds and top speed its at least 10mph up on the original. Because of this huge power increase, we are very careful about the pre inspection of the vehicle and its condition. Should we have concerns over the brakes or any aspect of the the car's safety we will ask that the issues are rectified before we do the work. We would also suggest that on high mileage cars that the cambelts have been changed as per the service schedule. But once the remap has been done - wow!

One of our customers sent us a text message that read..... "I don't know how and when you nicked my car without me noticing, bit I don't want it back. I'll keep the new 1 you swapped it 4 - its way way qicker! Damn I'm going to loose my license at this rate, and my neck hurts already! Thanks guys! C U When I buy my GTA! Though I don't think I need 1 now!!!"

We also have an extra high output version, not for the faint hearted or small bank account though, ask us for more details if you dare!

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Alfa 156 GTA
Take a fantastic car and make it more powerful – OK, that was a challenge! This engine is already highly tuned so it takes something special to eek out a further 15bhp, but we managed to do so and improve the throttle response. The power delivery is much smoother and the traction control seems to come on a lot more?


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Mini One
Cracking small car, now given the additional power it deserves. With an extra 15bhp the pick up is a lot smoother and delivery more urgent. Phil’s feedback was “I seriously recommend this for any petrol head” – I must find out what Andy out in his coffee!

With the Mini Cooper S, we can go silly and achieve over 210bhp – for a lot less than money than you may think, contact us for details.


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VW Golf Tdi
These 1.9 VW engines are almost bullet proof but tend not to be entirely smooth in operation in their original tune – or so we have found! There is a lot of hesitation in low gears between 2 and 3,000 rpm. We have found that after tuning, this hesitation is eradicated completely and the engine revs freely all the way up the range. We can almost put whatever power you require through it, but we tend to think that 180bhp / 295lb ft is about right for the best combination of power, economy and drivability. With the above tune it knocked some 4 seconds off the 0-60 time on one 2001 Tdi. As one owners said “Wow, you’ve created a monster” whilst grinning madly!


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Other Cars
The above driving impressions are from either our own long term tests or from cars we have done a number of to obtain an impression. We can also do the following list of vehicles, although either due to the low number of remaps done or a lack of feedback we have no impression, such as Alfa 147 & 156 1.6, Alfa 147 (although the 1.8, 2.0 & 1.9 JTD engine are the same as those above). We would make some sort of assumption that characteristics are likely to be similar for similar specification engines though. If you would consider providing us with feedback on your car, good points, bad points, fuel consumption tests etc please talk to us as the more the merrier.

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Cars We Cannot Remap
There are certain cars we cannot remap simply because the technology used in them is too old. To remap a vehicle you need the ECU chip to be programmable, this became more mainstream in 1999 however there are some cars that have older technology still. The following list is cars we have tried to communicate to but have had no success:-

Fiat 1.8 (Barchetta, Punto HGT and Coupe )

Fiat 2.0 20v (Coupe, Bravo HGT and Marea 155)

Fiat 1.4, 1.6 & 1.8 (Bravo/a, Multipla & Marea)

Fiat 1.2 8v (Punto) 

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