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Hey Guys,
As G has been telling you, I had the pleasure of working with his 3.6R today at the shop. It's been a long time coming as he has been asking me to calibrate his 3.6r for the better part of a year. Finally the good folks over on the RomRaider boards have defined the hex and created the XML for the 2011 3.6R, So today I got a chance to work with it.
The results were pretty impressive. G's car base lined on the uncorrected ECS Mustang Dyno at 190WHP and 228WTQ. The final results of the calibration were 220WHP and 267WTQ. The delta there was very impressive for just a cat-back exhaust and tune. That is 30 WHP and 39WTQ gained!
A few things that I felt note worthy for the more tech savvy folks.
The majority of the gains were had by spending a few hours in the variable intake and exhaust cam timing. As shown above the low end torque increase was pretty substantial, while minimizing the taper off after peak torque is reached.
After getting the fuel dialed in to 12.2:1 AFR, I was only able to achieve an extra 1.5 degrees of ignition advance to red line before it wanted to ping. No matter if I ran the car at 11.5 or 12.5:1 AFR it would ping with anything more than 1.5 degrees. So onto optimizing the ignition curves I went from there, in order to get that nice smooth power delivery one would expect form a pro tune.
With that said, It was apparent that to pick up any more than 30 hp to red line, these vehicles will need to be equipped with a better flowing air intake, as well as a header to really help the motor breath, and pick up additional mid range torque.
All in all, I was extremely happy with the results I achieved for G today!
If anyone has any specific questions for me, just ask!
-Paul @ ECS