Not to mention it uses a proprietary Magnetti Marelli pcm, and if you get your tune wrong your intake valves won't open. There isn't an intake cam, just hydraulic actuators, controlled by the pcm.
Easy, I haved it in my dart, and it really is a great powerplant.
There are tuners who can now tune the motor.
Just a tune, and better piping and exhaust people are getting 220hp and 280tq with the stock boost levels.
Oh, and it sounds WICKED.
Source?
I had a full turbo back exhaust put in, no cats, an intake, and tuned and I was NO WHERE near those numbers on something like 32lbs which stock is 24. I ran on a mustang dyno and put down 176FWHP and 190FT/LB. This was in my 2012 Abarth.
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Tork is one of the companys that can "bench" flash the ECU. Roadrace has a signal interception box, junk IMO. I have a Dart with the 2.0, wouldn't waste my time with a 1.4t, turbo is too small to make any real power, 200hp is the limit AFAIK. IIRC a canned tune from Magneti-Marelli is available too.
Tork is one of the companys that can "bench" flash the ECU. Roadrace has a signal interception box, junk IMO. I have a Dart with the 2.0, wouldn't waste my time with a 1.4t, turbo is too small to make any real power, 200hp is the limit AFAIK. IIRC a canned tune from Magneti-Marelli is available too.
I remember tork from their launch control. The Roadrace box is just a modified TCM box for more money and little gain. The only person I've seen break the 200hp mark is a guy on the Fiat forums that swapped turbo's with the Garret GT2054. If I recall correctly the stock is a GT2046/48 based on manufacturing date but they can be swapped for the larger 52/54/56 trims.
I spent a bit of money importing parts from overseas on that motor and I was slower than a Focus ST. Eaten alive by a 2013 stock STI.
2500# Curb weight with 175hp/190ft/lbs
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