dougaberdeen

I would imagine that other tuners will now follow quickly as note that mrc state they can do it as well now

From the facebook page below, dated a couple of weeks ago

Note that Unicorn have said they can now tune 22 onward models

That dyno graph is pretty much the perfect shape you would want, must lovely to drive and more than enough for the road

If you could report back with results including dyno graph comparison, if you can, that would be really interesting Obviously with the dyno runs being done on different days there may be some differences but it would be interesting to see any material differences Does your bum dyno tell you there are any differences?

I remember watching the first video of the guy hamza going back to mrc having gone with a decat and removing the opfs, made virtually no difference, the intercooler seemed to make the biggest difference so don’t know if they have done more work with this kind of set up i would be very interested to know what the difference between the standard opf is (such as the cpsi count) and the one which Awesome and others are selling as they just state sport opf but with no details, edit - just found a site that says the cpsi count is 200 but without knowing the standard count there is nothing to compare against. I would think that perhaps the better option would be for an exhaust maker to just replace the standard cat with a sports one and leave the opfs alone, would love to see some definitive data on how restrictive or otherwise the opfs are on the gen4 engine as they appear to make 400bhp on a standard setup with a decent tune

true, however was just responding to the chap asking about RL unlock for 22+ models

Don't know about RacingLine, but TVS have said they have managed to do it and they will be rolling it out to dealers TVS Unlocks DQ381 2022+ G04 Loader for Reflashing - TVS Engineering

Personally if it was me I would be sticking with the continental turbo unless you want to go 450bhp plus, the oem turbo seems to make the numbers plus offering excellent tractibility

@anglingnut don’t think you would need an upgraded turbo for stage 2, intercooler would definitely be needed though to keep intake temps down and to make consistent power different tuners refer to different hardware for stage 2 mind, note racingline seems require opf removal for theirs. Most stage 2’s are intercooler, intake and downpipe, the latter part usually being the most expensive especially since the introduction of opfs

Fuelling on the ea888 gen 4 doesn’t need upgrading for stage 2 as you say, the stage 1 on the gen 4 platform with the continental turbo are hitting numbers that were stage 2 with the IS38 seriously impressive platform, 400bhp with just a map on a 2 litre engine, more so when u look at the graphs as well, still really tractable at low revs, realistically more than enough

Nice smooth graph, must be lovely to drive You not tempted with a stage 2 map if you have the downpipe? Not sure if you have an intercooler or not

each to their own, but i wouldn't be running a remap without increasing the clamping pressures for the clutches as they may be slipping without you being aware and it's only when they start to really slip, which you will notice, that you will then find yourself with a very expensive bill for replacement clutch packs

I am in no rush, will wait as there are options with a mechatronics swap but that starts getting very expensive

There is a sort of patch as the likes of APR have it as well, they can’t adjust the shift points or anything https://www.golfmk8.com/forums/index.php?threads/the-apr-2022-vw-gti-golf-r-and-audi-s3-tcu-upgrades-are-here.420762/ If I was getting this done I think I would wait until the tcu was unlocked and they could map it property, more so for full control over the clamping pressures to avoid any possible clutch clip although an adjustment of the shift points would be welcome as it’s to quick to change up