Recently, the exhaust on my Zafira GSI was rotting away, so I had it replaced with a Milltek job and had it remapped at the same time at AMD in Essex.

Due to a slight crack in the manifold, the full potential was no realised so I enquired about fitting a later Zafira VXR turbo and manifold on.

I also asked about remapping after fitting and was told that "The map that is on your car will adapt to the new Turbo so will not need to be adjusted."

Just wondering wether this is plausible, that a map will adapt to any changes?

Thanks

 

remember on vectra-c that people used to say that the ecu learns your driving style,I always thought it was BS but maybe true

 

Could well work however I don't think it would work very well, I've never heard of a map that can suit 2 turbochargers, best guess flash maps especially.

 

whilst i dont know for sure i very much doubt it will adapt as you will be modifying the engine's VE!

 

maybe it has an air mass flow sensor to work off and make some adaption, but certainly won't be optimised and could be dangerous

 

Correct, nothing special, it's true of any example of 'adaptive' engine management, hence the name, it's not your driving style though, rather different conditions, as in the case of the former it will reference the map relevant to the drivers input.

Re the OP's question it depends tbh, as with any computer the ECU can only do what it has been told, i.e. mapped for, so if the turbo is different then I would say it would need remapping imo.

Martin

 

Thanks lads. Have to think about this one carefully.