Chips, Remaps, Live Mapping &
Custom Mapping in Lancashire.
Chips, Remaps, Live mapping and custom mapping are our speciality 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.
ECU Chips. (Chipping)
Old cars, prior to around year 2000 used to have EPROMS in the ECU that had to be removed, re calibrated and refitted. Some were just plug in chips, others needed to be soldered.
This service was widely known as "chipping."
ECU 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 re calibrate the existing system.
As the name suggest, the seller is not clarifying exactly how this will be done, but it may involve a new chip, a remap via the vehicles OBD port,, a custom ECU remap (See next tab) or a full on live remap (See last tab).
Custom ECU Remapping:
During custom mapping, we take the vehicle out with a data logger and assess what parts of the ECU calibration require work and then go back to the workshop and re calibrate the necessary parts of the calibration on the PC 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 ECU 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 assess the results in real time.
This is doubly true for those engines that have strayed from the norm and are now utilising up rated cams, ported heads, altered compression ratios etc.
We have written a very large technical article for a national magazine on the art of live mapping, you may enjoy it so it can be accessed here.
The images below show live remapping in progress.
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This here is a 2 dimensional fuel map.
This is a race car showing an ECU connected to our laptop Via an Emulator. The wide band air fuel ratio monitor is on the seat at the bottom of the screen. Detonation cans are hanging over the crossbar.
In this shot, Kenny is live mapping a Turbo Diesel. The device on his knee is a smoke meter.
The same fuel map, but in 3 dimensions.
A general over the shoulder mapping shot. he is so shy... ha ha.
A sunny GTiR wired up and ready for checking over.
