Tuning Racechip One on Bravo 1.4 T-jet 150

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Tuning Racechip One on Bravo 1.4 T-jet 150

bravo0809

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Hello there


Ordered a Racechip One recently and it was relatively simple to get it installed. The car was instantly more responsive and eager.

Fiat Bravo 1.4 T-jet Manual 150bhp
Racechip dial setting: 6 & 1

However after a few days, acceleration at lower gears caused turbo flutter and hard acceleration at 3rd or 4th gear onwards, boost hit higher than 150kpa causing boost gauge to beep(boost warning set at 150kpa), as well as a shrieking / sucking sound from air intake (followed by loss of power). Same thing happened when stepping on accelerator to overtake while cruising on 5th or 6th gear.

I removed the chip and the symptoms were still the same, and only went back to normal after I disconnected the battery for half a day to reset the ECU.

Wrote to Racehip and was advised to adjust dial settings to 1 & 1, which worked for a few days. All seems well, but may need a few days to be sure?

Wondering if anyone experienced the same issue?
 
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Thinking of getting this chip for my t-jet can you give me any update on how yours is performing now
 
These boxes just mess with the fuel pressure signal and thus cause the mixture to be incorrect. The adaptive corrections in the car's ECU has tried to correct for this and ran up to its limit casing poor running or failure indications.
Anything less than a real change of the map in the engine ECU is fudge and waste of money. Ideally you should have a custom map made for your needs with your car on a dynamometer.
Don't forget to tell your insurnce company.

Robert G8RPI.
 
Hi There,

not sure if anyone is still reading this after so long..
yeag g8rpi, I have long since removed the ****ty racechip and dumped it; figured it does no good for any cars at all... snake oil probably...

my suggestion is not to ever touch the bloody thing. wonder how many poor souls fell for it.
 
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