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Title: 2000 jetta 1.8t tuning. Post by: hindsjake10 on December 13, 2015, 08:24:08 PM Hi everyone, I'm newish to the vw and the tuning game.. But I just picked up a 2000 1.8t jetta and put a 3inch downpipe with test pipe and was looking into tuning it. I saw that most tunes are running upward of $500 and this I got the car for 1200. So I was wondering what would all be involved with tuning it myself. Don't know if you have to burn a chip or can i reflash my own? how does this work. I have a couple buddies with vag com cables and i saw while i was briefly looking into this earlier today that there's software for writing fuel maps on this site. I know the dangers of tuning and also know most of the basics but have never actually done it. I figured what better time to do it than on a winter beater i picked up for cheap. So I'm basically looking for everything I need to get to do this, I'm not asking for tuning advice or anything just what I need to get started. Thanks, Jake ;D
Title: Re: 2000 jetta 1.8t tuning. Post by: ktm733 on December 13, 2015, 09:02:41 PM You don't need to do any burning of any sort. You can read the stock bin through the obd2 port or a bench harness. First things first, grab one of these cables
http://www.ebay.com/itm/281288095104?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649 secondly download this program for reading/writing your ecu last but not least read this a million times, then read it another trillion times. http://s4wiki.com/wiki/Tuning Title: Re: 2000 jetta 1.8t tuning. Post by: hindsjake10 on December 13, 2015, 09:10:13 PM ok after i posted this i figured id troll around on the forum while i waitted for a response. learned a lot in a hour. going to buy a used ecu soon and test my hand at reading the flash on a bench and possibly editing the map, ill probably be back with questions but none like these. sorry for posing this before reading in the forum a little bit. :-\ :-X
Title: Re: 2000 jetta 1.8t tuning. Post by: hindsjake10 on December 13, 2015, 09:14:19 PM You don't need to do any burning of any sort. You can read the stock bin through the obd2 port or a bench harness. First things first, grab one of these cables http://www.ebay.com/itm/281288095104?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649 secondly download this program for reading/writing your ecu last but not least read this a million times, then read it another trillion times. http://s4wiki.com/wiki/Tuning [/quote by stock bin you mean the stock tune correct? I downloaded the program about 10 minutes ago and could i use my friends vag com cable? he said he jsut picked it up for $250.. does that sound right or am i thinking of the wrong thing. Title: Re: 2000 jetta 1.8t tuning. Post by: ktm733 on December 13, 2015, 11:26:23 PM Yes a Ross tech cable will work but make sure it's the right vcds cable. Depending on your car they made different cables.
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