Tuning the 3 cylinder

[AndyMac204]

vroom offered me almost 42000 for the Golf R this week and it’s only been driven 2000 miles in the last year so we are going to be downsizing to one car (the bronco) until after the chip shortage ends and prices come down. I’m devastated. Adulting sucks.

Vroom also offered more than we paid for the bronco but that wasn’t gonna happen :-/.

thats what we did.
gf is working from home now, so we didnt need 2 cars. sold my fbo 2015 civic si and traded her mazda cx5.

if you love your vee dubb, keep it. nothing but regret since i lost my civic. zero regrets about the bronco sport, but i loved having a fun summer car.

adulting does suck lol

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[AndyMac204]

I have a SCT BDX that I am using with my Ranger. It looks like it should work with the Bronco Sport but I don't think they have any canned tunes for the 1.5L. 5 star tuning offers tunes so once I finally get my BS I will look into that. I am hoping the gains are similar to what I got with my Ktuner and my 2018 Civic. Those tunes made it into a whole new car and the torque gains were crazy. They can't really dyno a cvt so it's hard to say what the gains actually are, but they did dyno a 6 speed EX-T and it was like 220hp and 250tq (pretty much max the cvt could handle anyway). I will post here once I get it tuned. Let me say that it was very noticeable running the 93 octane stage 2 tune.

hondata here with my old civic. and yes, that tuning woke up the car big time.

 

[fastlax16]

thats what we did.
gf is working from home now, so we didnt need 2 cars. sold my fbo 2015 civic si and traded her mazda cx5.

if you love your vee dubb, keep it. nothing but regret since i lost my civic. zero regrets about the bronco sport, but i loved having a fun summer car.

adulting does suck lol

carmax ended up offering me 43k. Sold it last night. Someone else can take the depreciation hit and I’ll buy back in when this bubble bursts.

 

[AndyMac204]

carmax ended up offering me 43k. Sold it last night. Someone else can take the depreciation hit and I’ll buy back in when this bubble bursts.

haha once again, thats my gameplan. ??

 

[Bronco18]

My wife wants to replace her 01 Escape v6 with a Sport, but after driving the 3 and 4 cylinders we both agreed the 1.5 has no guts. I also have a 400hp Golf that doesn't help measuring things with the butt dyno, but for my wife to notice a car doesn't have power is saying something considering she's had the escape since it was new. The only option she wants is a sunroof, which pushes the badlands to 40k with taxes, which I have trouble wrapping my head around for this car considering some of the other (mostly used) cars start to come into play at that price . I'd rather get a Big Bend with the Big Bend package and call it a day.

So that was all a long way of asking what kind of results can be expected from just a tune, no supporting mods on the 1.5?

I have seen some five star tunes that you can get for the 1.5 and I know five star is really good with eco boosts.

 

[Osco]

The biggest detriment to the 1.5 is weight, then add 4 normal sized people and some camping gear to the 1.5 and it struggles. That's why I didn't buy it.

Odd,
I’ve loaded my base up more than once like you stated.
My 1.5L never struggled in the least.
But I was not rally racing up steep hills.
Loaded in normal driving even up long hills the drive system simply runs at a higher rpm, stays in a lower gear when climbing.
Up a given grade at 2200 rpm with just me or up with an extra three fat guys and gear at 2900 rpm. Matters little.
The 1.5 L will getterdone.
It just cannot rock crawl as good with out those extra Goat modes and clutch packs…

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