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BHG – Safe & simple ECU remapping guide

This article is part of the infamous BHG guides. The simplest and “safest” engine calibration (ECU remap) guide for beginners. PLEASE READ WARNINGS BEFORE YOU PROCEED !!! IF YOU FIND INFORMATIONS USEFUL, PLEASE CONSIDER DONATION. SUMMARY Preparation Max. boost for turbo Max. injector duration The easy part Boost & boost [...]

BHG – How to find optimal air-to-fuel for your TDi

This article is part of infamous Brutally Honest Guide to car hacking. Our fist air-to-fuel article has been met with great outcry from duners, chiptuners and other forms of tExperts desperately defending their truth. No matter what facts you present, people love to hear only what they believe is true [...]

BHG – How to find out maximal boost of your turbo

The Ultimate Question in (tuner's) Universe - How much boost is too much boost? How much boost should I run? How much boost my turbo can take? You name it...you asked in various forums but they just told you +/-6% is ok - is it really? In the beginning - [...]

ECU remap guide for beginners – HOW TO NOT destroy your car

Right now, I'm preparing third version of ECU calibration data for latest car Skoda Hilda HR I (full ECU remap history). Two years of intensive studies, following masters and hours of testing on alpine roads...I'm looking back what I used to do wrong as beginner and what sort of disillusion [...]

Warning

Warning KNOW IS DO - if you must think you have no idea what you are doing !!! HUMANOIDS DO NOT LIKE FACTS - what they desperately seek is a reassurance of what they believe is truth. THIS IS WEBSITE IS ABOUT HARSH REALITY - we don't care about truth, lies, [...]

BHG – Engine calibration feedback & logging

We know already how to extract max. torque and properly calibrate engine from various BHG articles. But we still do not know whether we have optimal engine calibration or not. That is where feedback & logging comes in. Most of us are materially poor car hackers, and we have no [...]

BHG – how to choose knowledgable chiptuner vol. 2

After writing the first article about choosing knowledgable commercial chiptuner our knowledge improved, and we simplified and improved strategy. We also found out that some turbochargers are "uncontrollable" even in stock setting, and boost spikes are partially not chiptuners' fault. PLEASE READ WARNINGS BEFORE YOU PROCEED !!! IF YOU FIND [...]

BHG – We share similar pain

This BHG article has been based on a true story. We naturally want more torque so you either try ECU remap yourself or find someone who does it for you. If you are in hands of Johnny McFuck, you end up with a questionable ECU remap or fucked up car. [...]

BHG – effect of changes to engine parameters

This article is part of infamous Brutally Honest Guides aka BHG to car hacking. Changing parameters in calibration maps of ECU is the easiest part of so called chiptuning but understanding why and what effect each change has to engine parameters is another story. PLEASE READ WARNINGS BEFORE YOU PROCEED [...]

BHG – calibration data calculators

Calculators for BHG articles that hopefully make your car hacking easier and improve your understanding of engine calibration aka chiptuning. PLEASE READ WARNINGS BEFORE YOU PROCEED !!! IF YOU FIND INFORMATIONS USEFUL, PLEASE CONSIDER DONATION. BHG calculators Interpolation of calibration maps Basic data gathering calculations - digging data from maps [...]