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R53 JCW software
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Rolf
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The JCW software will NOT work in your car!
Tested and proven to another member by demonstration! :idea:
Tested and proven to another member by demonstration! :idea:
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Rolf
Guest
Addition to above post: If you flash JCW software in std Mini your car won't even start anymore :idea:
dvst8
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If you going to be fitting a smaller SC pulley and other HW mods, your best bet would be a SW tune.
Even if you getting a complete JCW ecu, it wont really help. Anything less than a 15% reduction SC pulley is not worth the money spent and if I remember correctly, the JCW pulley is only about 11%.
Alot of guys on the NAM forum run a 15% reduction SC pulley on stock SW however you wont be getting the best performance of that pulley. Dastek Unichip is popular with the R53 guys in NAM but I still rate a custome SW tune will be best.
Even if you getting a complete JCW ecu, it wont really help. Anything less than a 15% reduction SC pulley is not worth the money spent and if I remember correctly, the JCW pulley is only about 11%.
Alot of guys on the NAM forum run a 15% reduction SC pulley on stock SW however you wont be getting the best performance of that pulley. Dastek Unichip is popular with the R53 guys in NAM but I still rate a custome SW tune will be best.
dvst8
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Oh, there is a guy I chatted with when I had my R53 that had a 15% reduction SC pulley, GP intercooler, JCW injectors, van der Linder branch/exhaust and had installed a JCW ecu on his and was pretty happy with the performance until he drove mine with the custom tune.
However I did have a 19% reduction pulley. :rollsmile:
However I did have a 19% reduction pulley. :rollsmile:
Cooper
Member
Just to add in, ddon't expect major gains from software on the R53. It's not like the R56.
The boost is in the pulley reduction, so that will be your biggest gain.
However software does tie all your hardware mods together very well and make the car perform even better and you even get the Revlimiter increased which is good for pperformance.
Do you have the car yet?
The boost is in the pulley reduction, so that will be your biggest gain.
However software does tie all your hardware mods together very well and make the car perform even better and you even get the Revlimiter increased which is good for pperformance.
Do you have the car yet?
because they know that fluffy means i used to drive a civic and now im bald coz of all the pistons my cams used to eat.............:biglol: im kidding im kidding,
just do your research on the motors,many of them in uk are high mileage, so buying one over 150k km might not be so bad and if u get bored u can always put a nice lil toyota motor in it,even tho ur gf might not approve
just do your research on the motors,many of them in uk are high mileage, so buying one over 150k km might not be so bad and if u get bored u can always put a nice lil toyota motor in it,even tho ur gf might not approve
fluffy
New member
spawn616 said:
haha! i see the uk forums have like 100's of miles on the cars... my thing is... usually with higher milage comes more stome chips, scuffs interior bits feel it etc...
maybe i convince her to do finance and just spend R10k-R20k more and get the over priced one... so she'll never think back to "but that other one looked sooooo neater..." :blab:
fluffy
New member
spawn616 said:
i've seen some figures on the trip computers yes... but that said, with the charger, you really can drive it under 1500rpm if ur just commuting.
- luckily she doesnt put on high km's neither.the Cooper S is MILES above the Peugeot 206 GTI 180... much more solid.
She loves it, and I'm starting to like these lil R53's too.:inlove:
