Remapping and Rolling Road Shoot-Out Day @ AMD Essex
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All booked in for next Wednesday so will keep you all well informed 
Just caught up on this hope you find the issue soon Alex,
I think it may be a good idea, as suggested earlier, to see if AMD would load a trial APR map on if you can't find any hardware fualts and see how that performs against your AMD map
I think it may be a good idea, as suggested earlier, to see if AMD would load a trial APR map on if you can't find any hardware fualts and see how that performs against your AMD map
Agreed. I'll get hardware checked over by second garage and then if no hardware faults I'll be doing the software
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Hey guys, about to order my new clutch as mine is slipping at Stage 1.
For all you lot who have had stage 2+, is there a MASSIVE difference between stage 1 and stage 2+ for a manual only? forget the figures... im on about massive noticable differences in performance?
For me to spend £1700+ on an exhaust, hpfp and remap, i want to be able to justify spending that much you see.
Thanks lads and im glad you had a great day!
Simon
For all you lot who have had stage 2+, is there a MASSIVE difference between stage 1 and stage 2+ for a manual only? forget the figures... im on about massive noticable differences in performance?
For me to spend £1700+ on an exhaust, hpfp and remap, i want to be able to justify spending that much you see.
Thanks lads and im glad you had a great day!
Simon
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I went from standard to stage 2 and it was good but nothing major then I went to stage 2+ and omg it's totaly different, the power the delivery and the smoothness is unbelievable.
Plus I had a little play with a white R8 lastnite and put it this way he didn't pass me was unbelievable how quick these S3's tuned seriously are.
Plus I had a little play with a white R8 lastnite and put it this way he didn't pass me was unbelievable how quick these S3's tuned seriously are.
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Alrite guys my s3 just died in power and had code P0340. Cleared the code but it don't seem to go aswel,
Any ideas? Cheers guys
Any ideas? Cheers guys
The only thing I can find relates to camshaft timing.
http://wiki.ross-tech.com/wiki/index.php/16724/P0340
http://wiki.ross-tech.com/wiki/index.php/16724/P0340
Cheers mate, looks like a sensor then. I turned the light off and it hasn't come back on but the car still doesn't seem to have the pull it did before the light came on?
Prehaps just change the sensor and see what happens.
Prehaps just change the sensor and see what happens.
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Cheers Alex.
Seems to be driving mint again but i can hear a faint pinking noise/rattle only slightly when puting foot down before the turbo kicks in. Could be nothing but just strange.
Seems to be driving mint again but i can hear a faint pinking noise/rattle only slightly when puting foot down before the turbo kicks in. Could be nothing but just strange.
I read somewhere the other day that APR USA main company has been sold!
Hopefully someone can confirm if this makes any difference to customers?
Hopefully someone can confirm if this makes any difference to customers?
****** hell that would be mad if they have. I got the APR app on my phone and it didn't mention anything but you never know.
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Taken over by a company called Mangrove Equity.
http://audirevolution.net/forum/index.php?topic=2757.0
Huge thread here and several others around the net.
Having flicked through that thread and others I'm pleased I'm with Revo.
Engines blowing up amongst other things.
Seems lots of APR stage 2+ cars pulling 345bhp
Makes Alex's Amd map feasible
Engines blowing up amongst other things.
Seems lots of APR stage 2+ cars pulling 345bhp
Makes Alex's Amd map feasible
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That thread's been chugging along for a few weeks now...I think that the sale/buy-out/whatever may not make a whole heap of difference to the everyday products of the company,but it may result in a few of the excesses being curbed,such as bad-mouthing other products,and the use of loss leaders to stir up publicity.
Equity specialists like that tend to snap up companies which are otherwise profitable concerns,but need either refinancing and restructuring,or have serious management issues.
They do tend to be a bit hard-nosed and ruthless though....I know someone who was a part of one these companies,and they have no conscience at all about what they buy,or their employees,or even their own employees.
I just wondered if they'd pull out of the UK again.
I suppose it'll depend if our market is profitable enough for them.
I suppose it'll depend if our market is profitable enough for them.
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Whilst they haven't stopped selling to the UK market,the European HQ is now in Germany.
Read that thread....re VWR/Southbend etc
It also says the UK is operated from Manchester with the address looking very much like Awesome Gti
Seems they're no longer at Milton Keynes
Seems they're no longer at Milton Keynes
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****UPDATE****
see below. I've typed enough today so will use pictures ! lol
Spoken to AMD and they are replacing maf / maf pipe on Saturday and dyno again so fingers crossed!
see below. I've typed enough today so will use pictures ! lol
Spoken to AMD and they are replacing maf / maf pipe on Saturday and dyno again so fingers crossed!
Good result Alex, glad they found your leak, it's strange that you didn't get a warning light though as if you have a leak on a boost pipe as it would be drawing in unmetered air and you would expect the engine to be running lean. Strange that's it running rich
Cheers . Have video being sent to me tomorrow of leak from maf. Was quite a lot . Would that make that much of a difference to power? Any suggestions/reason on why it would be running rich?
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Glad you've got to the bottom of that.
Audis pipework is not the most secure and one of the hoses on mine came off a couple of times.
Admittedly with a lot more pressure LOL
However there were no error codes
I knew the hose had popped as I heard it but the ECU was still quite happy.
Audis pipework is not the most secure and one of the hoses on mine came off a couple of times.
Admittedly with a lot more pressure LOL
However there were no error codes
I knew the hose had popped as I heard it but the ECU was still quite happy.
When mine had an intake leak it threw a running lean fault as the engine allows for the correct amount of fuel for the air measured by the MAF sensor. If more air gets sucked in, to what should be a closed system, through a leak after the MAF, then there is not enough fuel for the amount of air hence you will run lean and risk damaging the engine. The exhaust O2 sensor picks up there is too much unburnt air in the exhaust
Cars usually run rich if the engine management believes there is a problem that could cause damage so they over fuel to protect themselves. If your car is not running right it will make less power as you won't have the correct air/fuel ratio.
You could have a bad O2 sensor at a guess but you would expect to see that as a fault light
Cars usually run rich if the engine management believes there is a problem that could cause damage so they over fuel to protect themselves. If your car is not running right it will make less power as you won't have the correct air/fuel ratio.
You could have a bad O2 sensor at a guess but you would expect to see that as a fault light
Cheers for the explanation. It's strange as the car seems to be running smoothly? Do you think fixing the leak by the maf will stop the engine from running rich ?
Strange to why the ecu doesn't tell you !? when they did data logging today they said the pressure from the boost was how it should be but yet I had that split!?
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I think the thing with a boost pipe seal is that at idle or low boost it may not even be apparent but under pressure you will lose air quite easily.
I think that would more likely result in rich running as its already metered the lost air.
I think....
Anyway as I said the ECU on mine was blissfully unaware of the pipe coming off completely.
I think that would more likely result in rich running as its already metered the lost air.
I think....
Anyway as I said the ECU on mine was blissfully unaware of the pipe coming off completely.
That does make sense . That mixed with the maf leak as well . All getting changed Saturday and hopefully back up and running properly!
Yours was unaware but still an animal lol
Yours was unaware but still an animal
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The ECU will request a certain boost and if there is a compensatable leak all that happens is the turbo works harder.
My case was slightly different...
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Yours was unaware but still an animal
It would get on well with my dog
Both do stupid things and have an appetite for self destructive behaviour.
