Humorous article with a bit of a hidden nugget

[meFiSTo]

Ran across this article the other day: Regular Car Review blog/article (hosted by R&T)

The writer is driving the FiST belonging to Chris Hayes (one of guys from The Smoking Tire). This car is being built up as a mountune car to match up with the Cobb car TST built up (and wroite about) last year.

Something is hinted at in the text and again in the video (at the bottom of the page) about a new OTS tune coming from mountune providing more power than their MR230 option.

I know that most everyone here likes custom tunes, but I'm more inclined to just load OTS tunes mated to stated minimum HW changes. Interested to see if something materializes. Would be funny if it lands (and I buy it) before I've even gotten the MR setup out to track.

Here's the youtube version of the video (comment at about the 3:47-3:48 mark):

[video=youtube;zShFPOKQOGo]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zShFPOKQOGo[/video]

I dropped an email to Ken Anderson and Randy Robles, but no response.

 

[CanadianGuy]

I read the same article that stated the car in on Mountune stage 2. The though that crossed my mind is that after the MR230 there will be another Mountune tune to use with their camshaft kits. But that is a guess.

 

[meFiSTo]

I read the same article that stated the car in on Mountune stage 2. The though that crossed my mind is that after the MR230 there will be another Mountune tune to use with their camshaft kits. But that is a guess.

I wonder how that would be expressed in a U.S. version. Here, all the adjustments are done through software. No physical cam tool.

 

[CanadianGuy]

I wonder how that would be expressed in a U.S. version. Here, all the adjustments are done through software. No physical cam tool.

Right. But once the cam shaft is added the software can be adjusted to make fuel and air mixture to be more in line with the cam's timing.

http://www.mountuneusa.com/mountune-Camshaft-Kit-Ford-1-6L-EcoBoost-V2-p/6064-cs2-aak.htm

My guess anyway.

 

[meFiSTo]

Right. But once the cam shaft is added the software can be adjusted to make fuel and air mixture to be more in line with the cam's timing.

http://www.mountuneusa.com/mountune-Camshaft-Kit-Ford-1-6L-EcoBoost-V2-p/6064-cs2-aak.htm

My guess anyway.

Ooooooohhhhhh. Ok. Now I get it.

 

[Waterfan]

Seems like a strange (and expensive?) choice to attack the cams before simply bolting up a better snail...

 

[meFiSTo]

Seems like a strange (and expensive?) choice to attack the cams before simply bolting up a better snail...

Yeah, well for me, I figure I'm good with my set up if it involves either. I'm not racing the damn thing.

 

[CanadianGuy]

Yeah, well for me, I figure I'm good with my set up if it involves either. I'm not racing the damn thing.

hmmm statement does not match signature. LOL.

 

[meFiSTo]

hmmm statement does not match signature. LOL.

Well, I didn't say I did not want to have some fun thrashing the car at the track in a legal off-road setting. And doing that really DOES involve making some adjustments so the car is more suited to having that fun. BUT: That is not racing, per se.

Anyway, I'm feeling somewhat disoriented today in worrying about this stuff with what just happened in Paris. I mean, I know it has nothing to do with this, but that kind of thing just sits on your shoulders and changes everything you're thinking about.

 

[draxxus131]

A quick segway...something I haven't really seen touched on, sorry for the thread jack btw. But how much power is able to be pulled out with stage 1 and 2 cams from said company.

I also wonder if stage 1 camshafts could even pass california emissions?!