DBW to nDBW Conversion

**Militant-Grunt** · 09-11-2008 03:30 PM

Wondering has it been done before? I have an 01 1.8t now and man I already miss the nDBW throttle body. I still have my old AEB TB, just wondering what would I need to do to convert to nDBW. And are there any disadvantages to this? What problems am I going to run into with the ECU? Has anyone done this?

**NK2007** · 09-11-2008 03:39 PM

Not sure about tuning, but the parts are available from 034.

**Don Supreme** · 09-11-2008 03:43 PM

You have to go stand alone to do that... in fact you have to do the conversion to run the currently available stand alones.

**Don Supreme** · 09-11-2008 03:44 PM

Originally Posted by NK2007

Not sure about tuning, but the parts are available from 034.

Any gains from those revolver cams?

**maxspeed** · 09-11-2008 07:12 PM

mike had to do that to run 034 i believe

**t1demont1** · 09-11-2008 07:14 PM

Why? You getting throttle lag or something? If so readapt your tb... or get a dbw v6 tb

**t1demont1** · 09-11-2008 07:15 PM

Originally Posted by Don Supreme

Any gains from those revolver cams?

I wanna know too, theyre supposed to be mild enough to run on the stock springs...

**Don Supreme** · 09-11-2008 08:16 PM

Originally Posted by t1demont1

I wanna know too, theyre supposed to be mild enough to run on the stock springs...

Then they are not worth it, but seriously the cat cams say they can run on stock springs...

**Wizard-of-OD** · 09-11-2008 09:29 PM

Unless you are looking to go SEM then stay DBW.

**t1demont1** · 09-11-2008 09:54 PM

srsly, just go bat and tapp tune that baby

**solowb5** · 09-12-2008 01:31 PM

You would need a aeb I/M, throtte cable, pedal, AEB wiring harness and ecu to make it work.

**t1demont1** · 09-12-2008 01:36 PM

And then you ruined the best part of the 2001 if you converted it to aeb... mafless tunes

**mike-2ptzero** · 09-12-2008 02:55 PM

If it is the delay you dont like, the tuners can modify the throttle response right in the chip. My old custom K03 chip from GIAC was tuned so that 25% on throttle at the pedal was 100% at the TB. So at that point the DBW was even quicker then a NDBW throttle setup.

**Militant-Grunt** · 09-13-2008 03:51 PM

Originally Posted by mike-2ptzero

If it is the delay you dont like, the tuners can modify the throttle response right in the chip. My old custom K03 chip from GIAC was tuned so that 25% on throttle at the pedal was 100% at the TB. So at that point the DBW was even quicker then a NDBW throttle setup.

Yeeeah that's what we're working on right now. Just its a pain in the ass, I miss the instant response. It does seem like the advantage outweighs the disadvantages. I'll update the thread after a few revisions of the file for the car.