I don't have a MkIII, but I am curious to see how well the newest Duratec responds to a tune as they seem quite strong from the factory. Do you have a dyno you can share? Thanks.
Because of changing jobs, I haven't had much time to worry about my Focus, unfortunately. If I had the $$$ on-hand for the programmer, I'd be volunteering to have the boffins at FSWERKS toy around with my ECU. Be sure that I'm massively excited about this, however.
I wish you had something for the auto equipped cars. But now that ford has released the newest trans update I wouldn't want that touched. It's actually doing well. Knock on wood.
You can take the front bumper off to access it. You might be able to get to it if you remove the driver's side wheel well / splash guard, but not I'm not sure.
I'm definitely interested once the auto version is available. Although I'm liking the latest Ford update better than all the others before it (and I've had them all, counting my first 2012 Focus that was pre-ordered months before they were released); however, it's still more sluggish with shifts than I would ideally like, even in Sport mode. Of course, I'm always interested in more power, too! I'm sure the FSWerks program will do a better job getting more power out of 93 octane gas than Ford's automatic timing adjustment.
How much meat is left on the bone with the tune you offer? Is it set on kill or, is it conservative to be a safe tune for a wide range of environmental changes/areas?
Our goal is to get the most power that we can out of the car safely. How far away??? I can't answer that question in feet or inches. I said that in an effort to relay our approach metaphorically. We aren't trying to damage engines.
I'm wondering, did you go to where it would knock then, bring it back to the point it didn't or, did you just (for the lack of better words) get to a point and call it a day?
I just don't want to spend $400-500 to see others making more power because where they went, put a harder tune up on it.
My car is a DD. It's not a track toy I can afford to toss in the rubbish bin for that extra last drop of performance, so having a margin of safety built into a tune is a plus to me. If it isn't 'enough', once the ability is there to tune, I have a local tuning house with a solid reputation for similarly not wrecking engines can maybe extract that last precious bit (more like adapting to my specific climate, altitude, vehicle, etc).
Given the lengths (despite apparent setbacks) the FSW guys have been going through to follow up on our needs, I'm left with the impression their tune isn't something they'll just be phoning in.
How many parameters of the car can you change with the tune? Is it just performance related or can things like the running lights be tweaked as well? If so could you message me? I have an issue I need to figure out how to fix lol.
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