Custom tunes for B8's

[toekneepark]

Has anyone had experiences doing custom tunes for the B8?

Is everything off the shelf tunes (APR, Unichip, etc..)?

I'm running into a brick wall trying to find anybody that is willing to do a custom tune with this car.

What do I mean by custom tune? Strapping the car on a dyno and actually tuning the car with a custom map...


Thoughts? Experiences?

[kwbdc]

Has anyone had experiences doing custom tunes for the B8?

Is everything off the shelf tunes (APR, Unichip, etc..)?

I'm running into a brick wall trying to find anybody that is willing to do a custom tune with this car.

What do I mean by custom tune? Strapping the car on a dyno and actually tuning the car with a custom map...


Thoughts? Experiences?

There's not a programing software for the B8 for you to do so. I think there was some talk about a program called Maestro that would allow for that with a new Turbo Kit but aside from that APR/Unitronic/Stasis/REVO are what most everyone is running on.

You can be the first to try this: http://www.eurodyne.ca/prestashop/pr...?id_product=30

[Alex1188]

you could use Maestro, i have looked into this options due to the fact of having a crap intake manifold design. The one problem is Maestro gives you base maps for the car, and a tune is made up of several maps for different parts of the car, so to do a custom tune you would have to have a shop that knows alot of audi/vw and knows alot about custom tuning, its not a simple thing for the B8 models...your gonna spend a fortune getting it done, and may not have the outcome your hoping for.

Why do you want to go custom route...?

[WAF]

There's not a programing software for the B8 for you to do so. I think there was some talk about a program called Maestro that would allow for that with a new Turbo Kit but aside from that APR/Unitronic/Stasis/REVO are what most everyone is running on.

You can be the first to try this: http://www.eurodyne.ca/prestashop/pr...?id_product=30

This looks interesting I wonder if anyone has used it on BT kit

[toekneepark]

you could use Maestro, i have looked into this options due to the fact of having a crap intake manifold design. The one problem is Maestro gives you base maps for the car, and a tune is made up of several maps for different parts of the car, so to do a custom tune you would have to have a shop that knows alot of audi/vw and knows alot about custom tuning, its not a simple thing for the B8 models...your gonna spend a fortune getting it done, and may not have the outcome your hoping for.

Why do you want to go custom route...?

Reason is, I don't know how satisfied I'll be with going the K04 route. I think the power is good, but what if I want more down the line?

So considering kits like this exists: http://www.raimotorsport.com/RAI-B8-...4_2.0t_gtx.htm from the get go. I wanted to see what my options were out there.

I have a bunch of local people that can do tunes, it's just a matter of having the software to control what needs to be controlled. That's where I'm hitting the brick wall. I just got off the phone with a tuner in Portland that seemed optimistic and gave me some good options. This is the first time, that somebody has actually said "well, let me find out for you.. call me back", instead of "nope, can't be done". I can at least appreciate this :).

So I'm hopeful something will come out of it.

[Highlander1010]

I think we're going to need a custom tune as well once IE comes out with their new Intake Manifold w/o flaps. APR has a no flaps tune for the FSI, but not ours yet and not on a K04 either. Then there will be the port machining too...

[Alex1188]

I think we're going to need a custom tune as well once IE comes out with their new Intake Manifold w/o flaps. APR has a no flaps tune for the FSI, but not ours yet and not on a K04 either. Then there will be the port machining too...

This was the reason i looked into custom Already looked into this, Unitronic has already said they can do the flapless tune on our cars,. As far as Maestro, they have the base line maps for flap delete on our car as well, but would obviously need to be messed with to find out what actually gives us a good cold start in all temps and be able to run efficiently with out flaps.