What did you do to your Polo today?

[noone]

Advanced my ignition timing 1.5% with CustomSettings.

Feels perkier. Will have to do some logging before I look at adding any more...

[DeanB]

Advanced my ignition timing 1.5% with CustomSettings.

Feels perkier. Will have to do some logging before I look at adding any more...

What are the risks "playing" with these settings when you are running a tune already (APR, GIAC, Revo, etc) ??

Surely these are already tweaked to a level that is considered safe, aren't you walking a bit of a tightrope tweaking further ? Would be interesting to here Guy or Gavin's opinion on how much play there exists in the tunes ?

[572]

Hardy exciting, but got a pair of new tyres. Now have Toyo Proxes 4 all round. Love 'em!

[h100vw]

What are the risks "playing" with these settings when you are running a tune already (APR, GIAC, Revo, etc) ??

Surely these are already tweaked to a level that is considered safe, aren't you walking a bit of a tightrope tweaking further ? Would be interesting to here Guy or Gavin's opinion on how much play there exists in the tunes ?

This is my take on it. Everyone has opinions right.

If you log the car before and after making your tweaks and without trying to be a hero. I don't believe that you can wreak your engine.

This is part of the Phase 2 tune with Custom-Code. Part of the process, not the whole thing. You can't get yourself a Phase 2 for the price of an ebay cable.

Revo's SPS thingy does the same thing as far as I can tell.

You cannot increase boost above what the loaded software allows, so no explosions there. You can increase the ignition timing in .75 degree steps and when you get to about 6 degrees you get a warning.

I have been able to add up to 9 degrees on some Phase 2s, which I was surprised about. I pulled that back to 6, as it was a reasonably cool night and not really an average day.

The settings tool knows what changes you have made, even after the lead has been disconnected and the ECU cycled. It is easy to go back to where you started.

TBH you are not going to see night and day changes on a standard car.

Gavin

[vwthunder]

What are the risks "playing" with these settings when you are running a tune already (APR, GIAC, Revo, etc) ??

I have read about people disconnecting the N75 and using a manual boost controller to try to maintain a high boost setting (say constant 20psi), guessing it can be dangerous to your engine ?? as i think some of them tend to lean out

?

[noone]

Thanks for speaking up Gav, have been very helpful with all my questions. It can be hard to find people willing to talk meaningfully about it.

I've been logging for a while and my car seems to be very solid, but not pushing potential of all the mods. There is not a lot I can change at this stage other than advancing the timing in the software.

If there are enough interested parties running APR stage 1, we may be able to get a V-Tune enabled file for the Polo enabling you to make minor adjustments to boost, etc, without having to open the hood.

[vwthunder]

If there are enough interested parties running APR stage 1, we may be able to get a V-Tune enabled file for the Polo enabling you to make minor adjustments to boost, etc, without having to open the hood.

I heard a lot of people on the Vortex are using lemmiwinks

I dont know much about all of this, might do a bit of research
Noone you seem to always know that is going on lol

This has a bit of info, guessing the Vtune is the same idea
http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=1618056

[vwthunder]

Oh I didnt even know about V-tune, just downloaded it from the site

Not game to play with it yet, thats your job Noone

[noone]

Lol! Thanks mate.

V-Tune is not compatible with the Polo's tune. If there are enough interested parties then they may do a V-Tune compatible code for us.

Think I'll start a new thread about all this, I think its good information to have, even if you dont use it...

[jasonc23]

Got GIAC'd feels like a whole new beast