Well i had a great Monday!!! started due to the wife found a new car she had been searching for so I had to get on the ferry to liverpool and drive to bedford with trailer in tow and spend some money BUT then a eureka monment hit me I remembered about JE Engineering remap and it was just off the M1 so i called them at 915 am whilst around the nottingham area to try and book it in to be told come straight away. I arrived at around 10 am and just simply gave them my keys and took a walk to the butty van up the road the next thing I heard a turbo come wizzing by as I spun around I was shocked to find it was my RR going like down the road and then pulling back into Je engineering so I quickly drank my tea and went to reception to find it was done gasp it was only 1030 am so about £300 quid worse off I popped the trailer back on and was Fxxxing shocked it pulled like a train compared to before and after picking up the wifes car and dropping the trailer off at my brothers house near notts I went out and was so shocked my fuel went from 22 or 24 around town to 26 to 29 and never went below on the motorway is hits 90 like it used to hit 70 but the suprise was that from 70 you hit the pedal and it just keeps pulling no flat or dulll area at all !! from stand still its far far better and I cant stop grinning Thanks JE for a great job and it does what it says on the tin and also you guys for the advice whom ever it was

simonmanx@hotmail.co.uk wrote:

I arrived at around 10 am and just simply gave them my keys and took a walk to the butty van up the road the next thing I heard a turbo come wizzing by as I spun around I was shocked to find it was my RR going like down the road and then pulling back into Je engineering so I quickly drank my tea and went to reception to find it was done gasp it was only 1030 am so about £300 quid worse off I popped the trailer back on and was Fxxxing shocked it pulled like a train compared to before and after picking up the wifes car and dropping the trailer off at my brothers house near notts I went out and was so shocked my fuel went from 22 or 24 around town to 26 to 29 and never went below on the motorway is hits 90 like it used to hit 70 but the suprise was that from 70 you hit the pedal and it just keeps pulling no flat or dulll area at all !

KurtVerbose wrote:

Jeez, all in one sentance. Has your keyboard also been re-mapped?

I know the feeling with the re-map, tho, tis wonderful. Turns a very nice car into a wonderful one - and left me feeling a little disappointed the first time I drove a TDV8, to be honest. Then again, I have yet to drive a chipped TDV8...  
RRC 2Dr, RRC 4Dr,
P38, and 2 L322s
(wife thinks I'm nuts - prob right, too)

ok, nob question..whats the difference between a remap and having a 'box of tricks' plugged in ..do they do the same thing? ... - .- -.




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Re-Map = clever
Box of tricks = Bit dumb
A plug in box will never replicate all the different parameter changes a re-map does. 2008 MY Supercharged
Rimini Red / Jet
four zone climate
remote park heater
and no ugly kid windows.
magnus satis quod turpis satis

axle ... - .- -.




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will let you guys know shortly. Have just bought a steinbauer Pbox. Will do a full power and MPG update in a while.

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Re-Map = clever
Box of tricks = Bit dumb
A plug in box will never replicate all the different parameter changes a re-map does.

My knowledge (This is where I get proved wrong! ) was that a Re-Map means the ECU runs the engine properly to new parameters, but a box of tricks can only interupt and change the signals. So it's not so clever at all.

cheap box = crap = you get what you pay for = just dumping extra fuel in the cylinders - I can do that with a screwdriver and a big hammer!

Re-map = job properly done = all parameters altered - fuel, turbo boost pressure, etc etc - so that you get balanced performance without smoke...

Oh and JE fast, efficient, no fuss, job well done, good product and competitively priced

Mmmm... I might get this done. Liking the sound of the increased MPG as well! 2010 MY Vogue SE TDV8 3.6 Stornoway Grey- fully loaded

should pay for itself in about 1000 miles if my math is correct ..i'm tempted as well... ... - .- -.




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err, think you left a zero off your figure scarey? I worked out that it will take a min of 10,000 miles to pay, going on a cost of £300 for the remap. Based on 25 mpg before remap, every 100 miles will cost £20 - for 4 gallons (say £5 per gallon). if you get a conservative 15-20% improvement in MPG, then every 100 miles requires only 3.4 gallons (costing £17). So saving only £3 every 100 miles means you will have to travel 10,000 miles to recoup £300, more like 13,300 if it cost £400. (did I get that right - hope so!

For TDv8's BAS who sponsor the RRS forum do a very good (well all those who have been remapped by BAS seem to say it's one of the best!) bespoke remap, he's quite expensive and runs his own TDv8 RRS as well as a Hybrid TDv6 "ex Puma" Defender and is helping develope a TDv8 powered 90 for one of the guys on the Disco3 forum. They both sometimes appear in LRM 2018 Mini Countryman Cooper S E All4 PHEV in Melting Silver - it’s whisper quiet in EV and polluter modes

@dolphinboy...i thought my calculations were to good to be true

edit ...i make it 6k to recoup the £325 cost of a remap..

6000 miles @ 20mpg = 300 gallons and @ £5.40 per gallon = £1620
6000 miles @ 25mpg = 240 gallons and @ £5.40 per gallon = £1296 a difference of £324

TD6 ..rapid remaps £287 and je engineering £351...both claim a 15/20% mpg increase, but it depends on what you're getting at the moment and what you will achieve with the remap. ... - .- -.




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It might take you 6k mi to recoup the costs strictly on an accounting level.

In a TD6, the value added on an emotional level is so great that it will have paid for itself within a mile. Every additional mile is pure profit.  
RRC 2Dr, RRC 4Dr,
P38, and 2 L322s
(wife thinks I'm nuts - prob right, too)