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Old 03-08-2004, 06:58 PM
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well the problem that i have is that.... my 96 1.8tq came with 557 ecu....And there is not much i can do with tunning it.....There are no chips available for it....The option that i was thinking about was changing the engine wiring harness.. from my car to a later one....Can some one please tell me how possible is it to do and which items eg sensors ill need to change?????
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Default whats a 557 ecu?

and for what purpose do you need to tune your ecu? i.e turbo upgrade? or just want to bump up the stock turbo boost?
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Default 557 is used in the 96-99 ndbw A4 1.8t.

There are a few ecu versions being M, N, P and C.
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557 Ecu was only used in 96 A4....it had no letter after 557....its a weird ecu...
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557 ecu was only used in 96 model A4....
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Default Well I was just going by the GIAC chip version list

and they list the 557 for 96-99 which all use the same chip.
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they may say that they using the same chip....But the encription key aswell as the software differen
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Are you talking about a Eurospec 1.8t?
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Go Autronic :P
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