Thread: Re-mapping

I’ve got exhaust modifications en route, and I’m on the waiting list for the latest Allisport performance intercooler for my 2.4 Puma.

Things get a bit confusing though when I look ahead to a remap though.

Ive been quoted $1000 to have specialists do it for me here in NZ, but I also see this outfit called BAS, and I’ve spent some time on their website.

What I want to do is make the most of the mods I’m making, turn off the egr (I’ll bet it’s going to soot up being closed all the time...alas), to reduce fuel consumption and boost torque.

Can anyone one describe the advantage of this BAS system of emails and uploads etc? Should I just take it in to be remapped?

Originally Posted by karlz

Agreed

I have been running the 140 city tune for a while already, quite impressed.
Recently mapped to the 170 as its cold in Melbourne now, its fantastic.
I have the intercooler, just haven't installed yet. WIll do it in 2 months.

I have the BAS 150 and 170 hp tunes and have the larger intercooler fitted. Other than service time at LR when the vehicle was still in its first year of warranty - I pretty much always run the 170 tune. (Very impressed with the tune, the tool, BAS and of course Pete Bell. Highly recommended!)

BAS advice was the 150 tune is fine with the stock intercooler - need an uprated intercooler fitted for the 170 tune. However....

...I did play with the 170 tune a bit in the weeks before the new intercooler arrived and was fitted. Monitored the intake air temps before and after the (stock) intercooler using the BAS tool:
- It only took a brief squirt at full throttle to see the intake air temp, AFTER the intercooler, go well above ambient (IIRC maybe 90C)
- ambient was a humid 30C in Malaysia at the time.
- the speed at which intake air temp rose on very short bursts of full throttle alarmed me, so I reverted to using only the 150 tune til the new larger intercooler was fitted.
- (of course if you drive at the speed of a sedated sloth, or put a brick under the throttle so that you don't use all the available power - no problem.)

Later - with the larger intercooler in place, and 170 tune installed, the intake air temp after the intercooler was always just a degree or two above (or below!) ambient. Even when driven hard for extended periods.

I haven't bothered to monitor any aspect of the engine performance in the past few years .... and don't bother to downgrade the tune when the vehicle is being serviced. It just works...