Hmm I wonder if I could use my n249 for dv purposes ? Its used for intake tract changeover by default, what do you think ? its a 3am idea dont bash me

like telling it to open at x rpm and 0% pedal but then again I dont know the axes in na soft .

Yep, especially if the kat is there but should only glow after spirited runs

Well, looks like other people have changed SW versions without much issue, and if I can't drive the car, I've got a working stock tune to flash back to, so here goes nothing! So I was looking over the community bin and noticed that PSI peaks around 14psi, then tapers back down to 7ish. This is because we're getting pretty high in IDC. There are tuners out there selling "Stg1 tunes" that are making 18psi and claiming like 30-40hp over stock. I wanna dig into this, because I wonder if they're dialing back timing to prevent detonation to run a bit leaner than we may consider safe, or if there are other values we can look into as far as fueling is concerned (and I'm about page 20 of the thread, and maybe I'll get flamed for this, idk) but I'm also wondering if anyone has an off the shelf tune that they can log for us, so we can see what kind of results the big guys are seeing as far as boost taper, peak boost, timing retard and injector IDC. I hope this wakes this thread back up because it's VERY exciting!!! Cheers!

I think KFLBTS is wrong in this xdf. Bassicly im making mappack with winols, studying this software and i found some errors. In my opinnion it should look like that
Start adress 198EF 8 bit 16x12, rpm columns 16 from adress 199B0 offset 40,000000, load rows  12 from adress 199FF offset 0,750000 both axes and map are 8 bit.
I dunno how to correct xdf, but will post more mistakes.

I should say factors, not offset, my bad.

In ME 1.5.5 damos load axis adress is also odd, you think damos might be wrong?

There is an alternative "tylerW" .xdf file for the for the 8E0909518AK-0003 ECU in addition to the 8E0909518AK_368072_NEF_STG_1v7.xdf that was developed within this thread. The tylerW xdf can be found over in the rather short stage1+ thread;
http://nefariousmotorsports.com/forum/index.php?topic=15799.0

I checked and verified that the tylerW dxf had KFLBTS located at the same 198EF location that you have identified.

As a nooby at this myself, slowly trying to understand this entire long thread and using the included xdf to sort through the many .bin changes, my feedback is that the 8E0909518AK_368072_NEF_STG_1v7.xdf from this thread is perhaps not actually the best available xdf to use. The identification and function of the numerically labeled "parameter category" folders that are visible for this xdf within tunerpro do nothing to help find or explain the purpose the scalars or table groups and the documentation available in the individual "parameter comments" is minimal.
 I am finding that the tylerW xdf is more helpful to me for understanding the .bin files within tunerpro as the tables are all categorized with more easily recognizable and useful parameter category labels and the parameter comments entries are more complete. Many of the parameter comment descriptions are included in both the original German and with English translation so I would presume that this xdf might have it origins as some sort of original Bosch map definition?

One potential criticism that I can see for the tylerW xdf for nooby use in this thread is that it has more additional tables identified than might be strictly needed for the stage 1 tune but I find the additional organization and documentation outweighs that con.   

This entire thread has been tremendously helpful for getting me started with ECU tuning for my '03 A4, many thanks to all the contributors over the years.