Thank you for your reply good sir. Lemme try and understand this You are saying the ecu was tuned with a GIAC file?
Does it come with performance increase or is it just a patch like you said? Why would they just patch it rather than do a performance file like a stage 1. Because the car did come with am uograded TIP & Forge DV.

Or do you reckon it was returned back to stock when it was in Japan?

Sorry I dont know how I missed this.

Thanks for your reply @DonkeyDub.

The progress update with this:
Managed to unbrick my ecu and flash it back to stock using Galletto + bootmode.

This file is indeed a GIAC file, and it wasnt 180HP, as I drove other cup editions and they were significantly slower than this one,
(now we will never find out, since then the new owner has reflashed to Stage 1).

In my (noob) analysis of that GIAC file,
It seemed that it had a NOREAD code in it *facepalm*, should have seen that argh.

The way they tuned this file was quite interesting, have not managed to see another style like it here on Nefmoto, though I know the legends know how to do it.

The file had -7.5 to -10 timing pull on WOT (VERY BAD), and I dont understand how an entire tuning company could make such a bad file.

The maps that were surprisingly similar between the GIAC file and stock:
LDRXN/_ZK
LAMFA


The maps that werent similar:
KFMIRL
KFMIOP axis
KFLDRXO
TLDOBAN
LDORXN
UADPLMX


KFMIOP load axis was increased but limited to 177.
KFMIRL was increased into the bare 200s in the higher range.
KFLDRXO was completely Zero'd.
TLDOBAN was completely Zero'd.
LDORXN was set to 127.5 in all except the first column.
UADPLMX was set to 4.98V (stock is 4.88V)

and while logging it pulled about -7.5 to -10 timing, but I chalked that up to that fact that the car was running more boost but stock LAMFA.
Something else I discovered while logging was that Desired Boost followed KFMIRL rather than LDRXN

Am I right to assume that under overboost, the ecu is more likely to follow KFMIRL values?
and am I right to assume that if we set the KFLDRXO, TLDOBAN, LDORXN and UADPLMX values as above, then we activate overboost mode indefinitely?


Anyway the above is just what I found, me as a noob. Thought I'd check in on this thread rather than leaving it dry.

Thanks everyone for your contributions, learned quite a lot.

I've not looked at it but they sometimes shift maps around so as people can't see what they've changed.  Possibly done the same for LAMFA.  This is old tech so there's nothing to hide now (except custom code patches which are wizard shit).  But normal "stage 1", "stage 2" etc is all the same old maps, nothing special.

You'll likely see 10 degrees of knock and you ask "how can a company make such a bad tune" - remember, no-one else other than enthusiasts see those numbers.  Everyone else just feels more power and is happy.

This.  You'll learn more and quicker by reading the stuff here than trying to work out why you think the numbers you're seeing make sense.  "Stock LAMFA, how does that work?" Away down a rabbit hole wasting time when you could just know from the start that it's wrong and likely hidden.

Save your breath, these old GIAC tunes are when they didn't know any better either.  Get stuck in, you can you do a stage 1 in a few hours if you read the threads.

After reading your experience with Unitronics, I gotta say damn these guys are careless.

It wasnt easy to unbrick, had to pull a fuse and then still failed, then last ditch effort was to use a Mk4GTI ecu with immo delete, started the car then drove all the way to a mech who had a battery charger, which then worked. Phew.
PSA: the AUM ecu worked but threw up a few errors and ABS and ESP lights were stuck ON, thankfully it was just a temporary measure.

Yeah youre right it seems like a very weird way of making a Stage 1 file. atleast if they had sorted out LAMFA Id say they onto something, but even KFZW/2, KFLDIMX, KFLDHBN were all stock.

Thanks bro @nyet, since then I have seen the light. Thanks to your posts here on Nefmoto, I have made progress on my own Stage 1 file.

Hi, i am just wondering, do you thing the cup gti file will work.