265 My Bluefin dyno results...

take it to a rolling road and get it checked out if you are worried..i would be if there is any doubt about potential engine damage.

 

I had bluefin on my meg 250 for over 2 and a half years and was great pulled really well and was smooth
Mpg was better too
I'm going to get bluefin on my evoque

 

Hi guys, just a quick update. I sent the bluefin back to my retailer for a refund.
I rang RST and the phone was answered by what sounded like a young girl. I asked to speak to someone about the mapping on my car and she told me a rough price. When I asked to speak to someone who could talk to me a bit more about their mapping, she went off the phone and came back with a firm price but I couldn't speak to anyone about the process. I hung up.
I eventually decided to go to motorsports developments in blackpool. They dyno'd it before and after the mapping. Interestingly ,with the decat pipe I had fitted it made a healthy 274 flywheel bhp. After a day fine tuning the map and the fuel , I ended up with 303 flywheel bhp and a very linear curve which is just as nice to drive as the stock car but obviously much more power all through the range. I am very happy with the results. They also provided a very professional bound folder with written reports on all the work they had done including several graphs from the dyno on the day.
I can post these if anyone is interested.
I couldn't be happier with the results.
Cheers
David

 

Great to hear about another company other than RS Tuning for once. Sounds like they gave a great service !

Post up the results if you could, would be nice to see

 

Motorsports developments are well regarded in the cosworth tuning circles, you won't go far wrong with them.

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I guess that answers my question if I should Bluefin my 275 Cup-S, I've used Superchips/Bluefin on literally a dozen cars beforehand and never had one problem or any suspicion of there being any. I currently have one on my Q5 and am really happy with it. Regardless is there any point in mapping the 275 when the 250's & 265's all seem to go to the same 300'ish mark, presumably my 275 would just go to the same mark??

The reason I like using Bluefin is that I can just put the map back to standard before taking the car for a service etc and also that I can do it myself rather than having to spend a day taking the car somewhere when time is a premium for me. Are their any other self-install options?

Thanks!

 

Also fastchip do the rstuner, it is the exact same box as rstuning use but a LOT cheaper. Fastchip designed it and I assume have a contract with rstuning to re sell it.
Allegedly the maps are slightly different but both fastchip and rstuning are both very well respected in the Renault world

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Touch wood, never had any issues!

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Thanks, I'll have a look at the Fastchip rstuner. I know it's probably been covered already to death, but do they respond well to uprated airfilters (are they panel or cone as standard?)? I don't want an induction kit before anyone suggests one, thanks.

 

Thanks, I've learnt in the past that some standard filters are good up to big bhp therefore actually to keep standard, but am happy to stick a Pipercross in for the sake of a few squid. What's this air-box mod and foam removal I read in another post?

 

Thanks very much, any other little things I can do?

I had a look at the Fastchips site last night, they're based in the Philippines, which I would presume would be harder to deal with than Buckinghamshire if I had a problem.....

 

Thanks. Ha ha, better take another look then, it was definitely a mapping company called Fastchips....

I may look at a cat-back Milltek to free up some noise and possibly a few ponies which wouldn't need the car to be mapped, but wouldn't a decat need a remap??

 

Thanks Jamie

 

Henk lives on the Phillipines indeed, he is Dutch but doesn'5 live here for a loooooong time!

As Jamie said, if you ever have problems with the map, or want something else, good luck!

 

I was told fastchips rstuner maps lock the map for overwriting/ lock the ecu

 

If you want some real improvement on the intake throw away the stock airbox (same of the 1.5 dci), move the battery in the trunk and fit a big cone filter, with some heat insulant around it, and a cold air pipe from behind the bumper to it. I'm working on a carbon airbox + cone filter + pipe + battery recollocation kit.

 

they do..

 

Just hold on to your box! It's all that's needed for anyone to overwrite/ unlock the ecu. It's a handy bit of kit too for data logging etc

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No it's not, even when you write back the standard software it's still locked....

 

When I had my old Clio, all I needed was the rstuner for the "custom map" to be loaded/ edited to my ecu.
The bloke couldn't do it originally it would not read the last few percent of the map, used the rstuner to pull the old map, he edited it and reuploaded the tweaked version.
As long as you have the hardware still it can be edited/ removed etc by any decent tuner.
I think.most tuners password protect/ lock there Maps anyway

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There is a difference between locking it for reading and locking the entire ecu to make it impossible to rewrite it without the original hardware.