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Took the car down to Red: Dot Racing in Watford today, got the car fitted with one of Petes famous GSR induction kits, and whilst i was there, got the car remapped.
To start the day (whilst i was waiting for pete to come down after getting in to some really heavy traffic) the guys put the car on the rolling road to see how it perfomed standard.
Bareing in mind i have a MK2 Punto JTD with 80 BHP from the factory, i was suprised to find that infact it was running 96 BHP.
It looks like the previous owner had already put a small map on it.
Pete arrived and got fitting the GSR.
After a few complications with the air flow sensor, the kit was screwed in to place, he was under the car for a while, but eventually the kit went on and fitted perfectly, this was about 3:00.
From that point till very late in the day, Pete and the guys at Red: Dot tryed about 4 different maps on the car, to find the one that would give me what i needed from the car, eventually we settled for one map that ended up giving me +40BHP from where it was, which is +50BHP from factory leaving me with 130BHP.
More to the point, it gave me +53ftLb or torque taking the car up to 194ftlb
I was then told to take the car for a spin.
The difference was unbelievable, power through the whole rev range, and when you put your foot down at ninet... erm.
..70 it just keeps on givng.
It's truly a new car, gone from the pokey diesel to a speed demon. MPG staying much in the same range i cannot believe what a difference it has made.
This isn't an advert, just a recommendation, if your looking at getting a remap, phone these guys, they do more than their website leads you to believe and they are really nice blokes aswell.
Thanks Pete, Augusto and all the guys at Red: Dot for what was an incredible day, and for making the car so much better.
To start the day (whilst i was waiting for pete to come down after getting in to some really heavy traffic) the guys put the car on the rolling road to see how it perfomed standard.
Bareing in mind i have a MK2 Punto JTD with 80 BHP from the factory, i was suprised to find that infact it was running 96 BHP.
It looks like the previous owner had already put a small map on it.
Pete arrived and got fitting the GSR.
After a few complications with the air flow sensor, the kit was screwed in to place, he was under the car for a while, but eventually the kit went on and fitted perfectly, this was about 3:00.
From that point till very late in the day, Pete and the guys at Red: Dot tryed about 4 different maps on the car, to find the one that would give me what i needed from the car, eventually we settled for one map that ended up giving me +40BHP from where it was, which is +50BHP from factory leaving me with 130BHP.
More to the point, it gave me +53ftLb or torque taking the car up to 194ftlb
I was then told to take the car for a spin.
The difference was unbelievable, power through the whole rev range, and when you put your foot down at ninet... erm.
..70 it just keeps on givng.It's truly a new car, gone from the pokey diesel to a speed demon. MPG staying much in the same range i cannot believe what a difference it has made.
This isn't an advert, just a recommendation, if your looking at getting a remap, phone these guys, they do more than their website leads you to believe and they are really nice blokes aswell.
Thanks Pete, Augusto and all the guys at Red: Dot for what was an incredible day, and for making the car so much better.
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