Chips, Remaps, Live Mapping &
Custom Mapping in Lancashire.
Chips, Remaps, Live mapping and custom mapping are our specialty subjects. We have the ability to access your management systems inner workings and adjust all the parameters that control things such as your engines spark advance, fuel delivery, cam timing and boost pressure to name only a few of the often thousands of calibrations within a modern ECU.
These services are all a little different from each other and you should take the time to understand what the differences are before parting with your money, so please read the sections below in order to understand which is which.
Chips. (Chipping)
Old cars, prior to around year 2000 used to have EPROMS in the ECU that had to be removed, recalibrated and refitted. This service was widely known as chipping.
Remapping: (A remap)
Arguably the most common term used today and is used to cover so many things it has become almost meaningless but regardless, its true meaning is simply to recalibrate the existing system. As the name suggest, the seller is not clarifying exactly how this will be done and if it involves a new chip, a single remap via OBD port, a custom remap (See below) or a full on live remap (See below).
Custom mapping:
During custom mapping, we take the vehicle out with a datalogger and asses what parts of the ECU calibration require work and then go back to the workshop and recalibrate the necessary parts of the calibration before uploading it back into the ECU and performing the same test again. This is repeated until such time as the calibration is as close to perfect as we can get it. (This is often all you can do with a modern ECU that cannot be done live.)
Live Mapping:
During live mapping, we will attach an emulator to the ECU and actually access the information within it whilst the engine is running and the ECU is in use. This is the ultimate form of mapping and usually gives far more accurate results than simple chipping or remapping and is usually quite a lot better than a custom mapping session too because we can adjust the data at the same time as the ECU is supplying results to the engine and so can asses the results in real time.
This is doubly true for those engines that have strayed from the norm and are now utilising uprated cams, ported heads, altered compression ratios etc.
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