Rugged SAC Ford Ranger Gets a Power Boost

And this is exactly what our team at Steves Auto Clinic found when putting our stock standard development Ford Ranger through its paces. The 0-100 km/h sprint took almost 13 seconds with 140 km/h taking a full 30 seconds to reach and the in gear acceleration times not much better when the vehicle was independently tested.

ECU Software Upgrade boosts power & torque by 17%

So we set about changing this and opted to use our latest SAC ECU Software Upgrade option that sees the power and torque jump up a conservative and reliable average of 17 percent. So now not only do you have power you can feel, you have a smoother drive that must be felt to be believed.
Now you would have heard of flash tuning, this is where a person, normally armed with a laptop and not much else, loads a new engine control unit map on your vehicle and changes the boost, timing and fuelling parameters.

These changes are normally done beyond what the OEM manufacturer would allow for the particular engine in your vehicle and they can then result in serious damage occurring to your engine because of over boosting or incorrect fuelling.

Most modern engines today are not delivering their full potential of power and torque. This ‘torque dampening’ as it is called is being applied by manufacturers. So what we do at SAC with our SAC ECU Software Upgrade is electronically allow some of this torque to be freed up and make your vehicle’s engine deliver closer to its true performance potential while maintaining all your vehicle’s inherent OEM engine safety parameters.

Even more power by adding a stainless steel performance exhaust system

Now because we are known as the tuning experts we decided to also add a 76mm stainless steel bolt on De Graaf performance exhaust system to our Ford Ranger for that bespoke sound and little extra gain in power. This said and done, our SAC upgraded Ford Ranger now responded far better to throttle inputs and also was quicker across all the measured distances when independently tested again. The 0-100 km/h now gets done in less than 12 seconds and 140km/h is reached some 4.5 seconds sooner than before.

Overtaking times are also down and this simply translates into an all round better vehicle. Contact us by clicking here for a quote on our SAC ECU Software Upgrade that comes in at seriously good bang for buck and the optional De Graaf performance exhaust system, or you can talk to a sales consultant at your nearest SAC branch and he will advise you on the full range of exhaust options available to you.

Ask about the Unichip U-Connect Plug and Play unit & ECU Software Upgrade

In the future a UniChip U-Connect Plug and Play unit will become available as a second option to our SAC ECU Software Upgrade and it will retail for the same price as the SAC ECU Software Upgrade. This system will come as a stand-alone product, complete with a wiring harness that plugs directly into your Ford Ranger’s OEM ECU and can be plugged in and out whenever you want or need.

And to put the cherry on the cake so to speak, we decided to upgrade the looks of our Ford Ranger to complete the performance package. And for this we opted for the Raptor body kit from 4×4 experts, M&B Off Road Center in Vanderbijlpark.

The kit consists of colour matched fender flairs (R8 000), bonnet scoop (R4 800), Ford front grill (R3 800) and optional Raptor decal kit (R3 500). All you have to do here is pay a deposit, the parts get prepared and painted and then they are fitted in a matter of hours.

M&B Off Road Center can be contacted on 016 931 1675 and to find out more about your power up options, visit us at our award winning website www.steves.co.za or on Facebook at www.facebook.com/StevesAutoClinic or on Twitter on www.twitter.com/SteveAutoClinic.