Suzuki Swift GTi Twincam 1.3 (87)

[Brad Martin]

At 12:51 PM 3/13/96 MET, you wrote:
><Michael Fawke> wrote:
>> 
>> The GTI will gain absolutely _nothing_ from a chip change. In australia, 
>> several of the companies in the 'chipping' market have got their fingers
>> burnt on GTI's by claiming up to 10Kw improvements. The biggest gain found
>> (by independant testing) was from advancing the ignition timing 2 degrees,
>> and it only gave couple of Kw above 7000rpm. The GTI engine is probably the
>> most highly tuned (as standard) car engine you will ever find. 
>> Michael Fawke
>> fawkacs at ozemail.com.au
>
>I do not know for the Australian market, but ASAIK, the US GTi engines
>have a bit less power than the German engines, so that chip tuning could
>possibly give you 10kW in addition.
>Anyway, I agree with Michael: always be careful with chip tuning. There
>are good (and rather expensive) kits, and there is a LOT of crap available,
>esp. for supercharged engines. For my car (Polo-G40), there are kits which
>ruin the engine quite soon, so that I prefer to stay away from them.
>
>Just _my_ opinion...
>
>Jens

I think we are confusing rice burners with krautwagons here.