Understanding The Concept Of Rolling Road Tuning And ECU Remapping

June 23, 2017

Driving a branded new car to home in itself is a pride moment for every person and this pleasure reaches at the peak when your neighbors and friends visit your home to see your new car, at that time you do consider yourself standing at the top of the world. But, as the years will pass, you will find lots of changes in  the performance of your car in form of pick-up, power generation, braking system, fuel efficiency figures, etc. All these changes are natural process and happen due to regular wear and tear, but as buying a car is not as simple as buying a new shirt for you to wear, buying a new car will not be rational for you. So what is the solution of this problem, because decline in performance of your car adversely pushes you towards additional investments on its maintenance?

Alientech ECM Rolling Road Tuning


Interestingly, today there are various methods which could help you in getting rid of this problem and improving the performance of your car. Rolling Road Tuning in recent years has emerged as one of the simplest methods of calculating the power of your beloved card. Although as it is the new technique that the results arrived may be in accordance to the expectations of car owners which is mainly because of lack of knowledge.

It therefore becomes imperative for us to understand some fundamentals associated with rolling road tuning:

Rolling Road Tuning Explained: As the rolling road tuning is carried out within the premises of the tuning service provider, it is literally not possible to generate real road conditions inside the place. During the tuning linear roads are arranged for testing the performance of engine from slow rotation per minute to red line. Normally it takes 45 seconds for an engine to touch the red line. The process continues for a long time by increasing load on engine and checking the time touching redline is recorded. This process is applied similarly on both normal engine and turbo charged engine, the increasing load on engine undoubtedly increases the pressure on the engine than it would have noticed while driving on normal roads.  Tuning in front of you then undoubtedly you will think about setting the tuning of your car and make it capable for driving smoothly on rugged roads. It would be interested to know that you have guessed right, because rolling road tuning mainly refers to identifying the power of a car while it is being driven on the road. It would be interested to know that car exhibiting low performance during the road rolling tuning enjoy superior power while driving on the roads. This is mainly because of following reasons.
  1. During the process of tuning the fan mounted on the front fascia provides air to a restricted portion at front side, but while you drive the car at normal road the proportion of air flow increases proportionally in accordance to speed. This condition does not happen while testing the car on dyno, moving ahead the intercoolers in some of the cars are also place at different sides due to which they do not receive substantial cooling from the fan. As an impact of this the air could not reach to all components and results in emergence of heat, which indirectly affects the performance of engine on dyno.

To get rid of this problem various car modifiers suggest car owners go for ECU remapping which helps in boosting the power of their car according to their requirements.

Lamborghini Gallardo Rolling Road Tuning

In simple words ECU refers to the engine control unit of the vehicle which is an electronic component mounted in the engine of vehicle and electronically controls the engine for boosting its performance. It is mainly installed in the combustion, which emits energy that is generated from the mixture of air and fuel. During the remapping the setting of engine control unit is rewritten with the help of software depending upon the type of settings required by the car owners.

The major benefits of engine control unit remapping can be summarized as follows:
  1. Increase in fuel efficiency: As ECU remapping refers to resetting the settings of the engine which directly influences the fuel efficiency of the vehicle and helps you in saving huge funds on fuel.
     
  2. Improves the life of the engine: ECU remapping enhances the life of engine and improves its pick-up efficiency.
     
  3. Improved power generation efficiency: The ECU remapping also enhances the power and torque generation efficiency of the vehicle and facilitates you to enjoy flawless drive of your vehicle without any concern of damage.

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