Remap suggestion

[yorkiet52]

Hello
Can anyone recommend a tunning company to get my t5 remapped?
I live in york so the closer the better . I dont want to go over the top with it. I spoke to motorscope and they do superchips zt 400 quid. Seemed a bit steep

[dps1973]

hlm, highly recomended. Ive used him on 2 occasions. Great chap. Number 01527 577710 Hamish £150 Bargain

[james]

i took mine to HLM at bromsgrove and i live at sheffield which was a bit of a drive and would be even further for you but would still works out cheaper than £400 quid. my remap cost me £150 and £40 for the rolling road tuning and i think i used half a tank getting there and back (nearly three years ago) well worth it.i would check your pcv pipes before you choose this as mine were badly corroded and only noticed them a few days before going and quickly got them changed (cheers t5 pete)

[yorkiet52]

Sounds good, anything closer to home?

[dps1973]

You can post your ecu as i did and he returns a maped one for you.Very quick turnaround, but as said by james check your pipe's first. Mine was sent on the monday returned wednesday.

[dps1973]

Pm'd

[james]

i don't know mate sorry , i was dubious about driving all that way and even had thoughts of something going wrong and being stuck down there but everything was fine , i had a few running problems a few weeks after and i rang HLM and they diagnosed the problem straight away over the phone(idle control valve)

[james]

also check ur pcv pipe that runs out of the left hand corner of the inlet manifold down near the power steering pump as i had re routed my pipe round engine bay because of a broken elbow and the joinin pipe had snapped and i hadnt connect it good enough (but it looked secure) for two years almost i had the lambda light on the dash and car was poor on fuel consumption .its amazing what a little pipe fitted badly can do

[t5_monkey]

http://www.vpcuk.org/forums/showthre...069#post391069

have a read of this thread - it may be of interest to you before you decide where to go!

[yorkiet52]

Thanks for all they suggestions guys, will have a check of thoughs pipes and give hlm a call. The car runs great at the min, will pop some pics up if I get chance. Is it all them small pipes I should check?

[dps1973]

Thanks for all they suggestions guys, will have a check of thoughs pipes and give hlm a call. The car runs great at the min, will pop some pics up if I get chance. Is it all them small pipes I should check?

correct, check your pcv too

[yorkiet52]

Whats the pcv ? sorry for my ignorance

[james]

positive crankcase ventilation , do a search of it , or sumbody else will be along very soon

p.s i thought my car was running fine till we found a load of the pcv pipes were coroded to hell

[Tomcat]

Pull the dipstick out while the engines running, if you get smoke coming out the dipstick tube then the PCV needs replacing/cleaning out.

[crezzy2k1]

When i bought my 850R it only had 70,000 miles on it the PCV system was completely gone, all the ports were totally blocked. It makes sense to me to change it if you don't know the history of the car, if its smoking from the dipstick i would change it straight away there is a fantastic write up over on MVS. I changed mine and it was a really simple job parts cost about £80 from Rufe over at FRF (see traders)
I haven't remapped mine yet as i keep changing my plans but HLM seems the cheapest but i don't know if the map he supplies allows for more upgrades (maybe someone can shed some more light on this?) or you can go down the custom route but thats gonna be expensive!

[p fandango]

i don't know if the map he supplies allows for more upgrades (maybe someone can shed some more light on this?) or you can go down the custom route but thats gonna be expensive!

they used to have files for the common combination of mods (19t, greens etc), not sure if they do custom mapping anymore

[deathrider311271]

all im going to say is u pay for what u get, u pay cheap u get rubbish, u spend proper money on a remap u get good results

[p fandango]

all im going to say is u pay for what u get, u pay cheap u get rubbish, u spend proper money on a remap u get good results

you say that, but the HLM remap is 1/3 of the price of others yet involves more work (ie soldering the eprom). All stage 1 generic maps have been written years ago & just a case of copying to the ecu

[Alan M]

http://ardideas.com/volvo.html

Tuning now can be done via the OBD port in later 850 models for both motronic 4.3 and 4.4 through x70 series models also.

[T5frankie]

you say that, but the HLM remap is 1/3 of the price of others yet involves more work (ie soldering the eprom). All stage 1 generic maps have been written years ago & just a case of copying to the ecu

only if he hasnt got an ecu to swap thats been chipped