tuning vtr

3rd August 2004, 21:09

Hi thinking tunining my other saxo its bog standard vtr 2000 i bought it to play with wife likes driving it so much might sell cupra leon nnnnnnnnah lol was wondering about super chipping it and fitting viper as well as powerflow exhaust what kind of difference reckon ill achieve

and anyways of keeping fuel consumption within reason look fwd to replies

4th August 2004, 07:50

well if you went for a superchip, viper and powerflow exhaust then your looking at a complete waste of money!

superchip: totally useless its mapped to a standard car therefore any aftermarket tuning woudl require an expensive remap at supchips HQ.

Viper: expensive waste due to it being metal with a silly carbon piece of sellotape round it, metla gets hot then stays hot meaning hot air into engine. Solution: get a green enclosed, simota enclosed or a BMC enclosed (not in any order)

Powerflow: Good if you want noise but pretty much redundant if you want power. If you have the cash teh best exhaust for a saxo is the GMC/BTB exhaust but its pricey, if not that then get a scorpion or magnex.

5th August 2004, 01:28

anyone got any more ideas ive grand to spare so tuning tips needed its going to be wifes second car

6th August 2004, 14:52

ok been asking around how bout magnex, bmc forced induction kit, and superchip non std

6th August 2004, 17:49

Dastek would be better than a superchip wouldnt it?

Procomp Carbon fibre induction kits are supposed to be the danglies too

6th August 2004, 20:46

yes dastek far more useable than a superchip

6th August 2004, 21:48

just found price for dastek between 350to425 fitted so go for that next the exhaust and airfilter she dont like to much noise what yo reccomend?

6th August 2004, 22:34

just had look at gmc website very reasonable prices for ehxhausts manifolds dastek filter reckon save few quid any more ideas thanks for help scott

7th August 2004, 01:34

if your just going for the filter, exhaust and manifold then you dont really need a dastek but it will help a bit but not necessary

12th August 2004, 18:59

going that route at first then cams and other goodies

going to get it booked into wallace performance in aberdeen guy knows his stuff lowering ,exhaust ,dastek ,filter,fitted and supplied 900 so going to go with that when i come home from working in poland next month ill keep you informed scott thanks for the pointers

12th August 2004, 19:44

I was wondering people, would you guys suggest a similar sort of approach to tuning a VTS??

I was pretty gutted to hear that you dont rate powerflow much

i already have 1
Also are pipercross Viper's not very good? i thought they had best ratings?

What other kind of tuning would you recommend. At what stage of tuning would you think you may have to start strengthing stuff?

also, sorry to totally change the subject by the way, but i have a headache

12th August 2004, 20:31

Best filters are BMC, Green, Procomp. Similar things for vts, exhaust, filter, cams, manifold etc. Don't think you have to start strengthing components untill you go for forced induction. Then again i could be wrong! Better ask scott!

13th August 2004, 05:09

the viper suffers due to it being in metal casing with a silly sticky tape bit of carbon round it, once the metal casing heats up it stays this way as metal retains the heat quite well thus heating the filter inside as well as the air which we all know is bad