I brought a tuning box a few months ago. When I fitted it, it didn't work so I sent it back. They tested it and it was working fine, so I tried it again, but it wouldn't make my car any quicker.
So I thought I'd just go for a remap. Had this done and again no difference in power. My car has plenty of power and seems quick, so it not losing lots of power. I dont think, I just don't understand why the tuning box and remap won't increase bhp?
Remaps are often not about significantly increasing the top-end power, but changing the shape of the power and torque curves to suit the intended use of the car.
A normal road car, such as your mondeo, will be tuned to suit the average road driver - it will idle nicely at rest, and pull fairly smoothly through the lower end of the range, and will be fairly frugal with fuel. A competition car, on the other hand, will have a different set of requirements - they won't be concerned with idling or economy, so will tune it to get the best acceleration possible - matching the torque curve to the gearset as much as possible.
A lot of it therefore depends on what you want by 'quicker' - making a car get a better time over a quarter mile at your local drag strip is very different from cutting a few seconds off your lap time at Spa, or a forest stage...
I'd agree with jzd, think about the balance. If you're after a fast road car, tyres, brakes and suspension bushes make far more difference than small power increases. For that matter, so does getting a bit of professional driver training (which has the added advantage of being fun!)
Without other modifications the typical increases in power from tuning adjustments/remaps will not be that noticeable because they are small increases. If you are putting the car on a dyno then you should be able to see some effect, but just driving the car around you would not likely be able to detect much of a change.
If you are looking to increase your power, look at what mods can make significant impact without breaking your budget. This normally means actual hard part changes, but tuning is important to keep up with as you are moding the car.
Also, continue to think about keeping everything in balance: You don't want a car with high HP and poor brakes, or upgrades that don't deal with bottlenecks.
I would suggest taking the car to a workshop and having them put it on a dyno. First without the chip and then with it. If there's no difference, the chip is faulty.
If you had a remap of your current ECU, it should still be illuminating to compare your dyno graph to that from a standard car. You should be able to acquire a dyno graph from Ford or one of their dealers.
My guess is that the tune was so mild that you don't even notice, or the technician didn't understand your requirements and mapped your car to be more fuel-efficient, but also more tardy.
The Ford Mondeo has plenty of power as it comes out of the factory. The specification of the vehicle would have been tested over thousands of miles under many and varied conditions. All of this means that your Mondeo is at its optimal best. Fuel economy, power, noise, and emissions are all at their optimal best. If you were to buy and use a piggy back box, or were to have a re-map, and your engine was to blow or you became involved in an accident which could be shown to be caused by the alteration, who would be responsible? Your insurance company would not want to know if you had not declared the mods to them. If you did declare them the insurance would in all proberbility decline cover. To modify your vehicle for power or anything else would involve a host of adaptations, as outlined by jzd, and it would end up not entitled/legal to be on the road.
trying to get more power out of an engine is forced to put more tension on crankshaft,pistons bearings and clutch, the engine is only tested to run on original specifications properly,john.ps buy a car with a larger engine ,less fatigue?
