Whats the difference?

oscar olop gti · Post by **oscar olop gti** » Sun Feb 19, 2006 10:45 pm

What is the difference between the ARC & AVY Engine

andyg · Post by **andyg** » Sun Feb 19, 2006 10:59 pm

The ARC is the earlier ones, the AVY had changes made to it so it comformed to some new emission laws (euro 4), and you can also mess with the ECU with the port behind the ashtray on the AVY engines.

There may be other changes but non that I know of.

hedgehogharvey · Post by **hedgehogharvey** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 11:03 am

[quote="andyg"] you can also mess with the ECU with the port behind the ashtray on the AVY engines.

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i have that in my ash tray,wondered what that was thanks

oscar olop gti · Post by **oscar olop gti** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 10:30 pm

thanks for clearing that up for me

inder · Post by **inder** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 9:40 am

hedgehogharvey wrote:
andyg wrote: you can also mess with the ECU with the port behind the ashtray on the AVY engines.

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i have that in my ash tray,wondered what that was thanks

they all have the purple diagnostic port

andyg · Post by **andyg** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 7:09 pm

they all have the purple diagnostic port

Yes but AVY engine u can do stuff to the ECU (i.e remap) where as ARC has siemens ECU where u need an actual chip to change stuff of that nature.

inder · Post by **inder** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 3:58 pm

andyg wrote:
they all have the purple diagnostic port
Yes but AVY engine u can do stuff to the ECU (i.e remap) where as ARC has siemens ECU where u need an actual chip to change stuff of that nature.

Yep, I understood what you meant, just hedgehogharvey referred to the port and I just wanted to mention that they all have it, what you can program or play with depends on the computer inside and the ECU brand as you said

hedgehogharvey wrote:
andyg wrote: you can also mess with the ECU with the port behind the ashtray on the AVY engines.

quote]

i have that in my ash tray,wondered what that was thanks