You have been chipped

Finally took the splunge yesterday and paid a visit to Vince at Stealth Racing!
Oh so glad I did!

My first surprise (and to Vince) was how much the car was pushing out as 'standard':

87.5 bhp and 168.3 lb/ft torque!

Skipton, I remember you telling me 2003 was the best build year!!

After the initial re-map, this rose to 108 and 185, but had a bit of a blip in the power curve at around 4000 rpm.

In the end decided best to go for a smooth curve than max gains, and reined things in a bit!

Final figures are 106.2 bhp and 179 lb/ft.

But it's way the car delivers that power that's changed most. It pulls much more cleanly at low revs (2nd gear roundabouts can now be taken in 3rd) and has a wider power band pulling very quickly and smoothly to well over 4000 rpm. The car has a more refined, smoother feel about it - the way Audi should have made it!

As for fuel consumption, it's too early to tell for sure. Trouble is it's just too tempting and easy to boot it (at the moment anyway!!), but cruising back at a steady motorway speed I'd say the MPG has actually improved slightly, maybe because it produces more torque at lower revs??

Either way I'm a very happy customer.

Thanks Vince!!

Cheers,
Simon
 
Simon oh Simon

Welcome in the 'YOU HAVE BEEN CHIPPED CLUB' :cool:

A club first only available to a few select members is rapidly becoming a club open to the public :D :D , and right so if I may say

And that all to the good ole work of te Stealth boys


Keep them coming boys, keep them coming

So Simon, didn't you whish you had taken the plunge earlier.

And to think that the cost is actually only the equivalent of about 9 fill-ups :D
 
Yep - it was worth every penny, and yes wish I'd done it earlier!!
The speed it pulls away on the motorway is very impressive. Briefly had it showing 115 mph and I reckon it'll wind up a fair bit more...
 
Hi SimonT

glad to hear that you think that it is worth it to have it chiped the A2 drives so much better.

sorry i could not be at stealth to see you i was looking at a house.

cheers
robin
 
Stealth

Zipped over to stealth today to get my A2 remapped. :D

A couple of stealth A2's were outside, one belonging to john that looked very nice sitting on 18" rs4's! Yum.



The first run on the rollers with the car as standard produced 93.3bhp @ 3922rpm, and 187.4lbs of tourqe @ 2034rpm.

Whilst the car was on the rolling road the wife who was outside getting some sun noticed lots of smoke coming out the back of the stealth workshop, she thought my car was on fire! :p lol.

In the end the car finished up at 108.4bhp @ 4258rpm, and 204.5lbs of torque @ 1905rpm.



Not bad, but i was hoping it would break the 110bhp barrier :( . I managed to take a few pics from the day, that i will post later.
Thanks to vince and john for doing a great job!
 
A few pics from the day!



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On the wheels of steel :D


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This is where the magic happens!


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Stealth HQ
 
That is still a great result though :D :D

And nice you made some pics of whilst the work got done

The number of un-chipped A2's is getter smaller and smaller :D
 
The car now drives alot better. Much smoother power delivery instead of the standard narrow surge of power it did have.

MPG seems to have improved slightly, and overtaking is much safer due to the much welcomed power. Motorway speed acceleration is outstanding especially in 5th!

It may just be me, but my poor little A2 seems to get bullied due to its small size. What a shame i embarrassed a bmw 118d 1 series the other day :D

Having the A2 remapped is the best thing i have done! :)
 
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