Hi, I'll try to make as much sense as possible here, but sorry in advance if there will be some BS.
Anyway, I don't know if it is out of boredom or because maybe I haven't suffered enough in life I have started to tweak around with my wife's Beetle. It's a MY2000 New Beetle running an APH engine. So far it has got a T21 Frankenturbo, exhaust manifold, catless 3" exhaust, front mount custom intercooler with some extra cooling access in the bumper, Bosch green giant 440ccm injectors and a 70mm MAF, upgraded fuel pump. And a big brake kit, full poly bushes set and aluminium subframe bushes with Bilstein coilovers.
Like you see, total waste of time and money
, but she loves driving it and she tells me a couple of times a week how she smoked someone at the lights or in a fast corner. Pretty sure the other person had no idea that they were racing her
Anyway, the ECU is somewhat set up, but just for daily use, the engine isn't being pushed hard at all as there isn't a proper Damos file found for this ECU, several people have checked already. So far my friend Frederick (he is also on this forum but i am unaware what his user is here) has setup the tune as well as he has been able to, doing it pretty much blind.
I'd like to push the engine with it's current upgrades close to what it can handle, to optimize all the upgrades, unfortunately it seems that can not be done with the APH ECU.
So guys, I am asking for your help. To which ECU should I swap to? What would be the easiest to get, which has a proper explination file available and would require the least amount of work done on the wiring - repining the ECU socket and so on.
I know many of you have experience with it and I am told there should be topics about it here, I have searched but haven't found good ones. It might also be because I really suck at searching for stuff, sorry about that.
If it seems like I am a total NOOB then don't worry, you are right. I don't know much about how stock ECU's work and how their tunes are done. But I do know cars and many aftermarket ECU's, my daily job is in depth vehicle electrical and diagnostic work with some aftermarket ECU dyno tunes, some Revo tunes and so on.
I will be very grateful for any info You can share with me. And if someone has a spare ECU suitable for this use then I would like to purchase it.
Current ECU details are PN 3B0907557R, BOSCH number 0261208003, ME7.5
I know a lot of this info is unnecessary, but you never know what small detail makes a difference.
(My next plans are to replace the TB for a slightly bigger one, also swap the intake manifold and to upgrade the intake cam. WHY? Why not. I want it to be a very fun city driving bug. I am not looking for high power, but anything to improve low end and midrage power. But these are just ideas and I haven't done indepth research yet how all these changes work together and/or if there are cheaper upgrades at these power levels.)
To anyone who has made it all through to this line here - thank you so much for giving me your time and being interested at least enough to read through all this. To any one willing to help, thank you very much
