The Significance Of ECU Remapping In Your Vehicle’s Performance
A vehicle remapping or ECU tuning is needed when the setting of a car’s Engine Control Unit (ECU) is changed to improve the vehicle’s performance. A vehicle owner can reprogramme the car by overwriting the previous settings with new software. This process is used to manage fuel injection, airflow, sensors, etc according to the owner's specifications. In the process of ECU remapping , the software of the vehicle is overwritten by plugging in the customized software to the car’s serial port (also known as an OBD port). All this can make the tuning of the vehicle quite easy and convenient. It has produced a large number of jobs for specialized ECU software developers and tuning engineers. A remapped ECU controls the engine in such a way that the power and torque output is best at all RPMs (Revolutions Per Minute), eliminating all flat spots and weak spots throughout the engine's operating range. Reprogramming the software and fine-tuning the engine can boost a car's power ...