New Rs Focus

New Rs Focus Well It was due to come sooner or later, 7 years on we have our RS fords back, the new rs focus is back. RS is all about the best of the best, high performance mixed with superb road-handling, this new rs focus accelerates from 0-62 in under 6 seconds.It has a new unique bonnet, front bumper and body kit, it also wears 19" alloys, xenons, twin chrome tail pipe, and unique Recaro sport seats with the side bolsters trimmed to match the colour of the car. The new focus rs starting price comes into the same price range as the focus st3, around £20,000 . I know which one I`d choose. Colours- GREEN, BLUE, WHITE

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Thoughts on Engine Remapping

Modifying cars today can be – depending on how far you want to go – very expensive. The world of car modding has come a long way from the days of Wolfrace wheels and go-faster stripes!

There are certain things that you may be able to do yourself such as, rigorously polishing the internal part of the inlet and outlet manifolds (known as portal polishing), fitting a bigger smooth-flow exhaust and changing the air intake unit. However, these activities have a limited effect on the performance of your car. Short of getting an automotive engineering workshop to do some extensive machining to fit high lift cams and fit bigger valves which will cost a fortune, there is another route you can take and that is - Engine Remapping.

Virtually every car manufactured today is fitted with an ECU which stands for Engine Control Unit. This is the heart of the engine so to speak and is responsible for its performance along with the function of other components.

When cars are being manufactured, the manufacturer builds into the ECU mapping system a margin for error and striking a "happy medium" to allow for irregular servicing which leads to worn and dirty spark plugs, clogged air filters, dirty injectors, suspect plug leads, adverse weather and the laws of different countries, but also making provision for performance within its published specifications when it leaves the factory.

So what you have here is an ECU that still has greater scope and can be electronically modified to provide more torque and engine performance. To give this statement some credibility, manufacturers use the same standard mapped ECU and remap it to increase engine output on some of their models.

Remapping requires no alteration to the engine, machining or additional hardware. The ECU is linked up – via the on board diagnosis port - to a laptop computer that has been programmed to override its current specification or function. Clearly only an experienced technician with the right equipment is able to do this. The days when fiddling with points and condensers, tweaking the distributor and carburettor were the only forms of tuning have gone. Remapping allows you to get better performance out of the engine by re-editing factory default settings in terms of, valve timing, speed governor, electronic throttle control and much more.

Turbo charged engines benefit still more from this and can be remapped to provide as much as 35% more brake horse power (BHP). The temptation to do some `speed busting` after this mod` will be overwhelming, so it`s best not to and use it for overtaking and getting up to speed faster. Non-turbo engines also benefit from performance enhancements, estimated to average around 10% which is still significant.

Better performance, lower fuel consumption and emissions are the prime advantages and may prolong the life of your car versus forcing you to spend time looking for new cars for sale. A remapped car will, however, need regular servicing since its extra performance will place additional stress on moving parts.