Hi, Guest
06-02-2004, 10:53 AM
Nice dyno there meford4u... it's very typical of JRSC equiped zetecs.
If you find you're having stumbles, have you checked your spark plug gaps? You should be running maybe 1 step colder plugs, at 35 thou gap, and may find this $12 solution simpler and just as effective to making the car run reliably.
As for the GReddy e-manage, for $100USD more, you can get the SCT Pro Racer package and have more control over your engine than the e-manage without any of the risk of you ECU learning out the tuning (and none of the complicated installation). GReddy allows you to intercept various signals, and semi-tune the car that way, but the ford ECU is a very tricky (but smart) cookie, and can unlearn much of your tuning, bringing the car back to stock timing/fuel trims that would prove disasterous over the long run.
Of course, I don't have any experience with the GReddy unit, but I would be very skeptical of it, especially considering that there are better, more focused solutions for the focus. Heck, you could pony up less than half the price of the GReddy unit to have a shop like Steeda.ca custom burn you a SCT chip for your application... cheaper, more reliable, and perfectly fine for a daily driver.
Also, for the horsepower you're going to get out of the JRSC, you should be able to get by on the returnless fuel system...
So go pick up 42lb injectors, the SCT, spend at most, $2200, and get all the tuning you need, without all the hassle of complicated installs.
just my $0.02
If you find you're having stumbles, have you checked your spark plug gaps? You should be running maybe 1 step colder plugs, at 35 thou gap, and may find this $12 solution simpler and just as effective to making the car run reliably.
As for the GReddy e-manage, for $100USD more, you can get the SCT Pro Racer package and have more control over your engine than the e-manage without any of the risk of you ECU learning out the tuning (and none of the complicated installation). GReddy allows you to intercept various signals, and semi-tune the car that way, but the ford ECU is a very tricky (but smart) cookie, and can unlearn much of your tuning, bringing the car back to stock timing/fuel trims that would prove disasterous over the long run.
Of course, I don't have any experience with the GReddy unit, but I would be very skeptical of it, especially considering that there are better, more focused solutions for the focus. Heck, you could pony up less than half the price of the GReddy unit to have a shop like Steeda.ca custom burn you a SCT chip for your application... cheaper, more reliable, and perfectly fine for a daily driver.
Also, for the horsepower you're going to get out of the JRSC, you should be able to get by on the returnless fuel system...
So go pick up 42lb injectors, the SCT, spend at most, $2200, and get all the tuning you need, without all the hassle of complicated installs.
just my $0.02
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