APR tune costs

What's involved in returning an ECU to stock.
My Frankenturbo build is coming up shortly, finally, and I have been told by John at DNA that I have to return my APR flashed chip back to stock. Just wondering what's involved and the cost of doing so.
Alternatively can I buy a stock ECU, install that and then in turn sell my APR flashed ECU?

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Originally Posted by noone

News to me Gav, how easily can you send it my way for a go? Is it just plug n play easy aside from the usual battery disconnect type symptoms?

Would love to try out a CC tune, especially now the SAI codes can be worked out. Is the Exhaust sensor coded out for Cat / DP changes?

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It has Phase 1 loaded at the moment. It just plugs in. This Phase 1 hasn't got the SAI coded out and only the Phase 2 has the cat efficiency coded deleted.

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Originally Posted by Redliner

What's involved in returning an ECU to stock.
My Frankenturbo build is coming up shortly, finally, and I have been told by John at DNA that I have to return my APR flashed chip back to stock. Just wondering what's involved and the cost of doing so.
Alternatively can I buy a stock ECU, install that and then in turn sell my APR flashed ECU?

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I have flashed over APR Trials, like I said above, using my bench lead. If you can't get anyone else to do it, send it to me. Buying another ECU would be prohibitively expensive IMO, unless you got one secondhand and then had the immobiliser defeated. A new VW one would have to be coded to the car. so you would need someone to do that for you. Seb?

If you sold your APR ECU it would still have to be coded into the new car.

Gavin

Thanks for the input. I'm sure it does get asked from time to time, I did search but nothing jumped out at me, maybe I was using the wrong search terms.

As I said my question was rhetorical, APR charge it because they can. You'd want to hope you got some regional difference in the ecu upgrade to justify it, i.e., to suit our climate, although I have my doubts.

Almost makes you want to get another ecu secondhand to butcher, I'm guessing the immobiliser is not easy/cheap to circumvent.

I'm not sure on the engine performance end game yet but will look into the names mentioned and see what is on offer. It is highly likely I will replace the downpipe/exhaust with something else, I have plans to pull it out so I can fit up my innovate wideband sensor. A tune that can handle the SAI delete is something that appeals to me as that is something else I will be doing.

There are things I'd like to do then there is reality, it will end up somewhere in the middle I am sure.