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Performance Tune/Chip on 2.3L EcoBoost


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15 minutes ago, First Light said:

Has anyone installed a performance tuner or chip on their 2.3L EcoBoost. Is it necessary, not necessary? Thoughts? Not planning on doing this, just curious.

 

Chips or bolt ons are worthless.   Tuners work very well on ecoboost engines but you'll have to run 91 or 93 octane.  Ford even sells factory tunes for Mustang 2.3LEBs.

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The 2.3L has an "open deck" block.  There is no surface that the head mates to.  The hot rodders with deep pockets, scanned the top of the block, used CAD to make a "plug" that fits in the void, with a few water passages.  Now they can really crank up the boost !  A few people are running E85 for max boost.

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On 10/21/2020 at 4:30 PM, akirby said:

 

Chips or bolt ons are worthless.   Tuners work very well on ecoboost engines but you'll have to run 91 or 93 octane.  Ford even sells factory tunes for Mustang 2.3LEBs.

 

Thanks, I kinda figured that but have no experience with this engine.

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