[s-cars] Chip - best choice

[Trevor Frank]

I don't quite get what you are saying here.  This is against putting in
any aftermarket chip in your car other than MTM, or for that matter
doing any mods past RS2 huh.


So for very custom ECU work ... If the company doesn't have the type of
access such as MTM has with the Audi development team - I personally
will remain a
little skeptical unless there was numerous years of real technical
experience
and/or years of testing with certain proposed modifications.





-----Original Message-----
From: FvAMI at aol.com [mailto:FvAMI at aol.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 12:45 PM
To: pizzoman at yahoo.com; bobfrizzell at shaw.ca; s-car-list at audifans.com
Subject: Re: [s-cars] Chip - best choice

In a message dated 1/20/04 8:56:29 AM Pacific Standard Time,
pizzoman at yahoo.com writes:


> Hey, Feicky, don't you make a couple bucks on every
> VMAP they sell?
>
> I sense a little tuner war in the making here....
>
> Joe, emotionally neutral on this one, Pizzo
>
>
I have developed code for the ECU but have it for personal use only ...
so
not starting a tuner war.

I am one of the key designers, firmware developers and oversee the
manufacturing and calibration of each VMAP unit ...

It fulfilled my need which was torque limiting in first gear (not
available
for sale yet - QA cycles are 6 months normally), being able to switch
back to
stock for California emissions testing and reducing the boost threshold
when
necessary due to the 91 octane gas and being able to get the full
potential when
filling up with 100 octane. As an added benefit to the rest of the UrS4,
RS2
owners the VMAP is available to all.

Considering the IP (Intellectual property), the R&D time and
manufacturing
costs it is far from being a huge revenue generator. It is more complex
and 10
times less profitable than doing ECU chips ... so really the end users
are
getting the real benefit from it.

There are many future firmware releases available which I want to use
for
myself ... and to keep costs reasonable will be released according to
the units
sold. Each one is upgradable in the future.

It's here now and here to stay. There are now plenty of decent chip
solutions
out there. I am of course partial to the integrators that are doing the
upgrade with a VMAP and others are welcome to become qualified ...
considering what
you get anything less than an upgrade with a VMAP is simply not a real
upgrade in my book.

The pricing, workmanship and support of the upgrade from our integration

group is the best in the business! Not to say others are not as good.
IMO (from an
engineering perspective) the chips that are available today are hard to
beat.
If you have access to enough electrical and mechanical engineering
knowledge
you may be able to squeeze a little more but without it you could start
exceeding the edge of the envelope.

So for very custom ECU work ... If the company doesn't have the type of
access such as MTM has with the Audi development team - I personally
will remain a
little skeptical unless there was numerous years of real technical
experience
and/or years of testing with certain proposed modifications.

Best regards,
Feico van der Laan


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