Hello! As is customary here is my introduction.

My name is Lewis. I hail from the sunny shores of England and have found myself once again taking on a challenge that leaves me sat at my computer until the early hours of the morning trudging through forum after forum sucking up all this EPIC! info.

I drive a VW Golf 2000 Mk4 1.8t, I have the 06A 906 018CG ECU and found myself here after I realized I could apply my computer knowledge and patients to playing with my car. The first time I heard I could attach my car to my usb port I was hooked, and since this revelation learning that I can tune my engines performance has blown my mind.

Which inevitably brings me to this forum, I have come here to learn about tuning, I have found some great wiki pages which at this moment in time are still a little above my station.

I think Ive done the sensible thing of getting the stock file for my ECU backed up, so any issues I can write it back, Im also on the hunt for the same ECU to practice on and if its successful I can revert back to it if I find the results are too pricey haha

I know there are maps out there that will do all this in a flash (no pun intended) but I do like to try and learn how things are done. It also means as I start to replace the stock parts on my car and I can keep re-tuning myself to get the maximum proformance, at least thats what I assume.

Anyway Im going to be here for a while trying to learn all you guys have to offer.

I know most of what I want to do has been done by many of you, and theres probably little I can offer this forum by way of expertise. But if there is anything you thing I can contribute while on my quest then please dont hesitate to let me know

Lewis

A YEAR? I was hoping to be going faster in a month haha.

So far I can see that theres the easy route with pre made maps, and the more satisfying way of tuning myself.

I dont want to take away from everyones hard work so its the long route for me.