Your 1st question is the 64 thousand dollar question. My answer is I don’t know…but I would love to find out. Somebody like DuratecNC is more qualified than me to answer that question.
What would happen if you ran the BBR185 hardware without the ECU remap? What exactly do they change in the NC BBR185 remap? I don’t know. Does anybody know?
With regards to the torque-truncation in the lower gears (yes, that really is the correct term for it), well, what can I say? Is it annoying? Yes. Does it make the car feel “flat” and underpowered? Yes. DId the OEM put it there for good reason or just to annoy us?