mepperson
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- Mike
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- 21 JLU Rubicon
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I saw a lot of threads asking about which mods to do to get more power out of the 2.0. After reading countless threads I decided to go all in and buy them all.
After some experience with modding a Focus ST I learned that it always always always comes down to tuning the ECU. The bolt-ons only do anything of value once the ECU knows to take advantage of them.
So to all the people wondering if X part gives more power or Y part is going to make a difference, consider this: do the bolts on like intake and exhaust with the intent of also tuning your ECU. If you don’t you really are just changing the sound of the jeep and adding only slight power gains.
here’s what I did: s&b cold air with the hood scoop (ram air), the Mishimoto charge pipe with the diverter valve from GFB, and a Flowmaster flowfx extreme cat back. THEN I sent my ECU out to Eurocompulsion for the tune.
My wrangler is now an absolute ROCKET! I don’t have any dyno numbers - but I can say I went from doing little chirps off the line to being able to easily burnout.
If you are going for power gains you have to get a real deal tune not those plug and play systems that trick the ecu to add more boost. Also, don’t get caught up on which intake has the most gains, etc. they are all going to be slightly different but the engines not going to give a sh** when the ECU is programmed to kick a**
hope this helps someone who was as frustrated as I was trying to get more gains from the plethora of bolt ons out there.
After some experience with modding a Focus ST I learned that it always always always comes down to tuning the ECU. The bolt-ons only do anything of value once the ECU knows to take advantage of them.
So to all the people wondering if X part gives more power or Y part is going to make a difference, consider this: do the bolts on like intake and exhaust with the intent of also tuning your ECU. If you don’t you really are just changing the sound of the jeep and adding only slight power gains.
here’s what I did: s&b cold air with the hood scoop (ram air), the Mishimoto charge pipe with the diverter valve from GFB, and a Flowmaster flowfx extreme cat back. THEN I sent my ECU out to Eurocompulsion for the tune.
My wrangler is now an absolute ROCKET! I don’t have any dyno numbers - but I can say I went from doing little chirps off the line to being able to easily burnout.
If you are going for power gains you have to get a real deal tune not those plug and play systems that trick the ecu to add more boost. Also, don’t get caught up on which intake has the most gains, etc. they are all going to be slightly different but the engines not going to give a sh** when the ECU is programmed to kick a**
hope this helps someone who was as frustrated as I was trying to get more gains from the plethora of bolt ons out there.
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