Remaping done increase in mpg and faster

andymartin

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Well my mpg has gone from 27mpg up to 35mpg omg and when putting the foot down what a diffrence its a flying machine well pleased need to get it on a roleing road to get the figures but going up the gears there is not a dull second. Well worth getting done

any one planning get it done i would recomend
www.autoclinic-remaps.co.uk

Im sure you all know how it works but he downloaded a copy of my ecu then sent it away to some one who used to right the ford ecu software then rewirtten it to the ecu done in an hour. This guy is mobile and can come to your house and do it well pleased
 
got a mention from the company on facebook from the company rear ford cougar(y)

[h=2]https://www.facebook.com/AutoclinicRemaps[/h]
 
Had my skoda vrs remapped today. Now running 212bhp and 288 torques of whatever the measurement is. Now averaging 36 to the gallon rather than 29.

So, so much quicker
 
he advised me he could get an extra 20bhp on my little 1.5dci clio thats already getting around 60mpg its only got 65bhp so any extra 20bhp is massive. Car is under warenty till next may so not sure if its something i should do? that and he said he could make improvments to the traffic diesal as they are both turbos i would then get more mpg i know short term its major outset but long term as i need both cars for the forseeable future it will propably save money overall still pondering over it. Been told a lot of people do this expecialy with new cars
 
he advised me he could get an extra 20bhp on my little 1.5dci clio thats already getting around 60mpg its only got 65bhp so any extra 20bhp is massive. Car is under warenty till next may so not sure if its something i should do? that and he said he could make improvments to the traffic diesal as they are both turbos i would then get more mpg i know short term its major outset but long term as i need both cars for the forseeable future it will propably save money overall still pondering over it. Been told a lot of people do this expecialy with new cars
Mate, if you remap a car within warranty, you will invalidate it, so think carefully before doing so. Once it's outside of the warranty, then I'd say no worries. Sounds a good remap though, more power...hmmmm...lovely.....better fuel consumption....even better!!! nice one, good post.
 
This all sounds too good to be true! I don't get what's in it for the Manufacturers to not pop a bit of software on their cars that provides both better MPG and more power, if it was one vs the other I'd understand.

Can someone explain to me why they don't do this in the first place? :)
 
This all sounds too good to be true! I don't get what's in it for the Manufacturers to not pop a bit of software on their cars that provides both better MPG and more power, if it was one vs the other I'd understand.

Can someone explain to me why they don't do this in the first place? :)

To fit in to a particular insurance bracket.
 
There are whole host of factors, not one single factor governing this.

Firstly is service intervals, manufactures need to reach a compromise between service intervals and engine output. Not an attractive proposition for fleet sales if your wonderful super powerful engine needs servicing at 10,000 miles as opposed to 12,000 because of the extra power. Whilst this doesn't sound of detrement on an old Cougar engine now, remember when Ford are selling x-thousand engines worldwide they'll be vigorously tested to determine service intervals.

Insurance as mentioned, the ancient 306 DTurbo was another great example of this, arguably this was the first diesel car that had the potential to be driven harder and faster than it's petrol counterparts... Upshot to keep this little gem buried at the bottom of the insurance risk table, PSA thottled back the engine power (engines when restrictive tuning is removed make about 130ish bhp on the first batch of XUD9's) then only let the motoring press test the 0-60 with a full tank of fuel and five passengers in the vehicle..... Knocked a second or two of, so that kept the insurers happy.

Fuel quality as mentioned, however this is probably one of the easiest things to deal with in a way as a combination of dynamic ignition timing and a knock-sensor can deal with this. I'm not sure if the Cougar was directly marketed at "third world countries", but no markets it was aimed at by my reckoning have outstandingly poor fuel; but who am I to say what Ford's engineers were thinking of?!

Drivetrain stress is also something to think about, adding a shed-load of extra torque to a gearbox/clutch combination also means more heavy-duty components.

...and a load of other stuff I don't know about!

Regards,
Andy
 
That may be the case in that instance but that is not the case en bloc, it's due to the variances in fuel quality...at least partly

The insurance was only one example I was offering. But like Andy says I'm sure there are many factors to be considered.

Here's another example MGZT V8 260bhp from a Mustang engine.o_O NONONO
 
I would say that the two main factors are almost certainly fuel quality and service intervals.

It's got to be able to cope with everything from the woman who insists on always using BP super unleaded, to the old guy who fills up at Asda when he does his weekly shop. And it's got to cope with everything from the guy who changes his oil and filters every 6000 miles, to the mum who runs it until the light on the dash comes on.

Please note the constructive gender diversity. Thanks.

benham said:
I'm not sure if the Cougar was directly marketed at "third world countries"

Yes of course it was. It was sold in the USA after all.

benham said:
but no markets it was aimed at by my reckoning have outstandingly poor fuel

Heh-heh. Nope, you've definitely never owned a car in the US.