Besides doing many remote ECU tunes for cars like Porsche, Volkswagen, and BMW, we do get local customers here in Arizona coming to our shop. We recently had this awesome little turbocharged Mini Cooper S with a 1.6L engine in for a ECU flash. The 2012 Mini has a Bosch MEVD17.2 ECU that cannot be OBDII flashed at this time. So we did a bench flash on it and put her on the dyno to prove its new VR Tuned horsepower. The Mini Cooper S comes stock with 181bhp. Here at Vivid Racing, we use a Mustang Dyno which typically has a drivetrain loss of 10-15% for 2wd cars and 20-25% for AWD cars. Combining the warmer ambient temperature and … Continue reading
