The tuning is the variable from what Ive seen. Each tuner is going to have their own level of experience and unless they have a bunch of jeep experience, its going to be a bit of a learning curve. And of course the JL is new so there are some quirks that will be new to tuners. The canned tune that comes with the kit is passable but no way a refined product.
I wonder if you swap out a gladiator's front grill for your wrangler grill if that would help since its slots and mesh are wider for better cooling?
It might help although I have never been a fan of the hot pipes or turbo location on the prodigy kit. They like to point out how so many OEM's are going to turbo but they have way more hot pipes under the the hood than any OEM turbo setup. OEM's mount the turbo as close to the head as possible where the turbo is most efficient and have turbo situated so you have short downpipe out of the engine compartment. The prodigy kit has the turbo in front of the engine and then wraps the downpipe around the engine compartment. It would be a fine setup for a race car making short pulls but on a lifted jeep with big tires where you could be in boost for extended periods of time going up hills and what not, not a ideal setup IMO.I wonder if you swap out a gladiator's front grill for your wrangler grill if that would help since its slots and mesh are wider for better cooling?
The tune that came with it was pretty much only a start and drive tune. Nothing else was ok. It had lots of issues unfortunately. The kit should not be sold as a 100% done kit but rather a “tuner” kit that has everything needed but a complete tune needs to be done. I haven’t found anyone with a completely good oem type quality running turbo yet. Lots of little annoying issues
I think we've gotten virtually all of my quirks cleaned up.
What shop did your tune?
Thank you!!!
Totally agree .. There is no point of having FI kit when the tune is not ready ... add to that you will be dealing with BETA version from Hptuners .. I am not sure if thats what you really want to spent your money on ... not now at least ...
I was wondering the same until I started reading about the terribly inadequate ECU tuning. I would suggest you don't take a chance on this until there's a definitive "fix' from Prodigy. For now it seems that this turbo kit works only where high octane fuel is available. If you venture into high altitude or low octane areas of the country, you'll probably run into trouble.
@Prodigy Performance - Any thoughts?
