I dont see what the big deal is with them doing that though. Its the same scale as manufactorers use when cars are new and the pre-map figures given are using the same scale, so its a 10bhp increase (regardless of the scale you use) and the car now revs to 8080rpm (although im not taking it that high!!!). Beyond all the figures though, the every day driving exsperiance has been vastly improved! No more max speeds of 2mph when cold and there are no flat spots whatsoever! Torque has been hugely improved and it is noticeably faster.
I would highly recommend the map (ignoring figures) for the overall improved driving exsperiance it has given.
My personal experiance of Superchips has been excellent all round and the bluefin is fantastic for warrenty perpuses as you can reload the original map at any point within seconds. Thank you Superchips.
its just missleading mate, imagine if you had no idea about cars, and got told for, lets say on average £350 on a remap will get you a very decent power increase over standard, which it wont.
I understand on the smoothness thing, a decent mapper would make any car 'feel' faster by making more power lower down, which will make it seem faster, when in reality it isnt.
A good example was years ago i had a Golf VR6 - mapped by AmD and after that it felt like a rocket, pulled like a train from 1000 rpm and revved to 7000 (standard limit is 6400).
Though side by side my friends standard Vr6, from 10-145 mph there was no difference, in fact the performance was exactly the same as before, as our cars performed the same before my map and filter upgrade - even though it came back with 12bhp more from a back to back rolling road.
I am merely, same as Nick, trying to be realistic - take it to somewhere who has huge knowlegde with Renaultsport models, like RS Tuning or TDF, and from a custom map you might get a standard 200 somewhere near 200bhp from 194 ish (remember the 200 is in PS, not bhp)
If these guys who have had years and years of working near specifically with RS models cant get any more than a few bhp more, then putting it politely Superchips wont get more than that either IMO.
I hope it does driver better, and id like to see a graph from an independant rolling road, only to see more things like AFR, and also the power loss figures on that graph are wayyyyy out - you should have more than 150 bhp at the wheels standard, so a trip to TDF for a run would be great to see
