***P2SPEC Presents: The PowerChip™ Experience. 8/14/10-8/15/10 ONLY***

[ben@p2spec]

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****BREAKING NEWS****

PowerChip™ (http://www.powerchipgroup.com) has JUST contacted me about delivering the deal-of-a-year to ALL LOCALS (and those willing to come out to P2Spec HQ).

$250 a car. PowerChip™ Stage I. One weekend only. From Dusk-til-Dawn!

ALL 2.0 VWs are welcome to join! For those of you who have had the pleasure of having a ride-along and/or driving the P2Spec MK6 on/off the track, now's the time to jump on board!

Cheers,
Ben@P2Spec

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[UberJAY]

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[PRND[S]]

From http://www.powerchipgroup.com/interact/datasheets/datasheets_two.asp?pid=Vwn0120

Your Volkswagen GTI 2.0T contains the latest technology ECU that can be re-programmed through the on-board diagnostic port (OBD-II). Specialised software interfaces with your vehicle`s engine management system to extract the electronic code via serial download. Once the information has been read, Powerchip technicians apply the performance changes and upload the performance program back through the OBD-II port. Installation cannot be performed by the end user. Programming must occur at an Authorized Powerchip Office in Melbourne, Sydney or Adelaide. The programming takes approximately 2 hour's to complete.
In standard form, the GTI 2.0T produces 359 hp and 108 lb.-ft.
Powerchip has a range of chips to suit your car, which can increase it's power to between 448 hp and 466 hp, and it's torque to between 151 lb.-ft and 158 lb.-ft.
The price of the Powerchip is USD $990.00.

:laughabove:

 

[Sterling]

yea, saw that on the website too... kinda sketch to throw money at a company who can't get the stock numbers right....

 

[hobbes]

This sounds shady as hell. If they can't get stock numbers right, it's almost certain they didn't put any R&D into it. :thumbdown:

 

[ben@p2spec]

LOL, don't go by what's on that website, it needs revising. Our shop car is a living, breathing example of a PowerChip tune... we couldn't help it ourselves, PowerChip North America is in Costa Mesa, 15 minutes away from us!

 

[PRND[S]]

I was trying to find some more info on the MkV / MkVI tune but couldn't find anything more recent than what's below. OK, so here's a dumb question: what 2.0L GTI would have been available in 2002 when this testimonial was added? AFAIK all the MkIV GTIs came with the 1.8T?

From http://www.powerchipgroup.com/interact/testimonials/view.asp?testid=942

Testimonials

Submitted by: Bruce B

Car: Volkswagen Golf GTi 2.0
Chip purchased: June, 2002
Testimonial added: 31/7/2002
Customer comments:
I find the power with the Powerchip installed is very satisfactory, and the drivability and smoothness is considerably improved.

The thing i have noticed most with the chip, is much more effortless performance, particularly low speed pulling power.

The power increase is mainly noticeable in the cars improved ability to hold higher gears at lower speeds, where previously there were bad flat spots requiring a change down of gear.

In regards to acceleration, the car is now flat spot free, and much more effortless with lower throttle pressure, especially up hills.

I have found that the fuel economy is perceptively lower, despite the increase in performance.

I was quite cautious at first about buying the Powerchip, but i have found that the information i was told and provided to be entirely truthful.

I would say that the Powerchip is good value for money, and i would definitely recommend it to anyone who drives my model car - The car drives like it should as a 2 litre engine, as permanently it does in Europe.

I believe that it was detuned for Australia, but the Powerchip has fixed that and i now enjoy driving the car much more.

Edit: PowerChip didn't offer a 2.0L GTI chip in 2002.

http://web.archive.org/web/20020820095807/www.powerchipgroup.com/chips/index.asp?c=1&make=Volkswagen

 

[BSH Speedshop]

At face value it might be a chip for the 2.0L 8v.

 

[ben@p2spec]

PowerChip since it's existence has its tuning core competency based within the BMW/Mercedes community. Now that doesn't mean that they can't or have not tuned within the VW/VAG group of vehicles - as I understood our shop car's reference file is a combination of a file coming from PowerChip Australia HQ and the US group to develop specific throttle maps and tuning package for our MK6. Some reviews of the PowerChip M3 performance:

http://www.m3post.com/forums/showthread.php?t=300511
http://www.m3post.com/forums/showthread.php?t=352617
http://m3forum.net/m3forum/showthread.php?t=235697

Furthermore, PowerChip, evosport and the developmental stage of C63 ///AMG tuning:

http://www.6speedonline.com/forums/...werchip-stage-1-c63-ecu-tune-development.html

Factory backed by evoSport and the evoSport racing program:
http://www.evosport.com/projects/mercedes/clk63black/

Various YouTube videos:
http://www.youtube.com/user/usapowerchip

By chance we were connected through friends with M3s... and PowerChip happened to be "down the street" you could say.

 

[fastgti69]

gintani has better numbers for their tunes on m3's e46 and e9x

 

[ViRtUaLheretic]

LOL, don't go by what's on that website, it needs revising. Our shop car is a living, breathing example of a PowerChip tune... we couldn't help it ourselves, PowerChip North America is in Costa Mesa, 15 minutes away from us!

Hey guys don't go by what we advertise go by what Im telling you right now. Haha, its ok that we are blatently lieing to the world, but I'll tell you guys some more true figures**.
































**by more true figures I mean random statements that I cant back up

 

[dbduke]

Here's an idea. Maybe you could post a dyno sheet of a car you've tuned before and after your chip. Of course, that's assuming the car still runs.

 

[ViRtUaLheretic]

hmm, looks like p2spec is a legit shop, they appear to be bigger on golfmkvi than on here though

PowerChip still looks sketchy though

 

[ben@p2spec]

hmm, looks like p2spec is a legit shop, they appear to be bigger on golfmkvi than on here though

PowerChip still looks sketchy though

Yes, we first started on Mk6 because of our own shop car and have transitioned over naturally after having attended a few local meets.

If you were to ask my own subjective opinion the PowerChip Stage I software is every bit as fast as the APR Stage 1 software if not tuned to be more "head snappy" in and around the town but through our test runs, test drives, and between all the daily driven spirited driving in-between, our shop car which has a job to do everyday must be flawless and reliable in operation and, of course, has been with the tune.

On our most recent track day we had driven in a group of 3 mark6's to buttonwillow racetrack (Bakersfield, CA) from our Tustin homebase:

P2Spec's DC w/ just PowerChip SI
PandaGTI's APR SI+ Full Carbonio Intake
and mk6 forum member iGti who had taken his bone stock mk6.

Panda's thread on our track day:
http://golfmk6.com/forums/showthread.php?t=8166

We went from 9-5 out there, each session being 25 minutes and we drove the cars hard respectively. Our shop car did not have a single hiccup in it's performance, nor did the temperature gauge move past 'normal' the entire day - it stuck to it.

While PandaGTi has to be the most experienced track guru between the three of us, he also volunteered to be chasecam for a single session, meaning I would have to be in plain camera sight at all times - even when pushing hard on long sweeping turns passing other vehicles or straights where WOT is necessary, in these instances both of our cars were WOT and in his experience there was no noticeable distance he was gaining on me to describe an HP/TQ advantage the APR SI has over the PC tune.

This is as real as it gets, and I had provided another forum member with a ride along yesterday night - please feel free to visit anytime before this event if you're local.

We're merely trying to pass on firstly an opportunity to jump on an incentive, provide an enthusiast GTG and to make aware to both communities that a reputable tuner existed in our neighborhood.

 

[ben@p2spec]

Track pictures from our thread: