Does anyone know if there are any tuning boxes available for this car/engine yet?

 TIA - Paul

yep

http://www.tuningbox.com/

cheers

 is there a uk based website - only got a free phone number from that site?

 Also - anyone fitted one to their Golf GT 170 yet?

i can't see one, no

Not sure, most people go for a remap rather than a tuning box

how about www.norchip.co.uk then go to ECU remapping, select make and model hit submit

£350 gives 200bhp and 410nm

Although i've never heard of this company and the gains aren't that big...

The main problem with tuning the 170PD is the DPF (diesel particulate filter) apparently...

I remember reading a thread over on seat-cupra.net where a remapped 170 had given fantastic gains and went like a rocket (around 220BHP iirc!!!) and the owner was understandably over the moon with the performance, until the DPF became blocked due to the extra 'soot' caused by the extra fuel burn of the remap and caught fire......

can see it now......woooooooooooooo-hooooo......yeaaahhhhhhhh...(sniff )....weeeeeee (sniff )..err...do you smell burning ?....WTF ??? (screeeeeeech )

opens door and runs......

damianmkv:

how about www.norchip.co.uk then go to ECU remapping, select make and model hit submit

£350 gives 200bhp and 410nm

Although i've never heard of this company and the gains aren't that big...

All the power figures on my website are for normal safe maps. A PD 130 golf can make 200bhp :-).  These cars can make much more than 200bhp but as said the DPF is the problem. So you need to remap with no smoke.

 Removing the Filter would be the way to go, but I am sure it will cause the CEL to come on. I have not looked at this car in depth yet but I think the Filter works on DP ( differential pressure ) so I am sure there would be a way round it if you did remove the filter.

Hope that helps

still looking, Superchips 170 caught fire, a guy in Greece mapped his went ok then req new ecu & egr, but some(2 i can think off) have used rica tuning of bromsgrove to limited affect, http://www.seatcupra.net/forums/showthread.php?t=118906

only the TDi 170's seeem to have the dpf fitted, removing is an issue as its wired to the ecu.VAG group will be running with this engine as thier preffered TDi engine i believe, nightmare for people wanting to mod them.

B44FY:

VAG group will be running with this engine as thier preffered TDi engine i believe, nightmare for people wanting to mod them.

Probably one of the main reasons VAG pefer it!!!

I expect they are fed up with warranty claims on modded motors LOL!

Just noticed Star list the 170 now

Spoke to Jim today no map as of yet for the deisel MK5 170 or the Leon 170, but they did map a 170 VW Passat.

Hopefully wont be long now.

Milltek now do a DPF replacement/performance pipe. When I last spoke to them at Castle Combe last autumn they were only going to supply it to a few tuners as a package with a matched remap, producing around the 220bhp mark.

Custom code also remap the 170 tdi.

I drive a Leon 170 FR and I mapped it at 3k it has now done 5k and have had no problems.

It has been remaped an extra 35bhp and 65nm

Mapping these cars is no problem whatsover.

The issue is that the "usual" method of tuning doesnt apply in the same way, we have to mae power in a different way which of course doesnt give as much as the conventional method hence power at around 200-205hp and +60-70Nm torque but the gains do make for a much more "pokey" drive.

At the moment Star performance have a 2.0 tdi Seat leon running 336bhp although they have upgraded the turbo to a hybrid.

this was a 140bhp standard model by the way. 

M22RCO:

At the moment Star performance have a 2.0 tdi Seat leon running 336bhp although they have upgraded the turbo to a hybrid.

this was a 140bhp standard model by the way. 

Are you quite sure of that?  You may have ingested NOS!