What Are You Putting Into Your Vehicle?
ECUWEST was amongst the first dyno tuning shops in Australia to offer in house custom ECU remapping that could be tested and confirmed with a chassis dyno. These days “ECU Remapping Guys” are literally popping up everywhere. For this post I’ll be referring mostly to the type of scenario below.
I recently went on a family holiday in the North West, after dinner while sitting around the fire chatting with other families, as usual, the boys’ conversations all start to centre around their beloved 4WD’s. One bloke, whilst looking across at my number plate asked me if I had upgraded my truck at all. I raised my eyebrow and said “Yes Mate, I’ve done a little work to it”. He eagerly went on to inform us all that his new VX 200 series had just been “remapped”, I asked him where he had it done. I became curious when he said his next door neighbour did it for him. Through further discussion he went on to say that this remapping guy from next door just pulled a file from his vehicle, and the next day banged a tuned file into his car. The neighbour charged him $1000.00 and had no idea what he had put into this poor blokes car. No post tune test drive was done, no checking air fuel ratio or boost pressure – the “tuner” didn’t even possess a diagnostic scan tool. We’re talking about a $115,000.00 Facelift VX 200 Series here. The poor owner wasn’t educated enough to know that engine calibration is pretty important. It turns out this convenient tuner was a mobile windscreen repairer having no mechanical, performance or engineering knowledge whatsoever.
Not wanting to be a Debbie Downer whilst on holidays, or to stress him out too much, I just said it sounded like a convenient setup. My point I’m trying to stress here is that whoever is flashing or tuning your vehicle, MUST know what they are doing, and must be able to check their work. I’m not saying they need to be a master tuner. On the contrary, a decent tuning workshop that is slaved to a business whose only job is creating, testing and improving tuning files, will often put out a better and safer product than an inexperienced master tuner – which we are seeing more and more as master tools are being pushed onto businesses who don’t know how to use them or tune properly.
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Hi, tve not long ago had my Ranger serviced at Evotune near Gordon Rd. I believe they did a reasonable job for 300. I’m happy to bring it out, get rid of the restriction stuff and put her on the the dyno and see what we can get out of her..I’ll look at exhaust system down the track. Thanks
Hi David,
Sure, just call 95906138 to arrange your custom dyno ECU Remap