R56 JCW motor going into my MCS, started work today
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Would a 2011 JCW DME flash even load onto a 2007 MCS DME?
The AccessPort has a huuuuuge tuner base. Someone who will custom tune the N14 motor is the hard part. Look for Subaru and Evo tuners in your area then call around to see which ones of them is willing to tune a mini.
http://www.cobbtuning.com/Dealer-Ret...or-s/70471.htm
http://www.cobbtuning.com/Dealer-Ret...or-s/70471.htm
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From: Expat Aussie in Navarre, FL
Your local dealer can tune it up for you. Should be around a $125 charge, but without the JCW turbo, i think your computer is going to throw some boost pressure plausability faults. That is - it thinks its not generating enough boost (because its not) for the JCW tune. Good luck! BTW - I'm a SA at a MINI dealership, let me know if i can be of any assitance on the reassembly.
Cheers mate.
Mike
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I actually did a JCW swap from my 08 MCS. The ECU will recognize it's a JCW and make adjustments accordingly. I have a boost gauge and I am running the correct boost levels for a JCW engine/turbo. Now if you put one of JM Turbo Coopers' turbos in I wouldn't be able to say what the ECU will do. The ECU reads the sensors of the JCW engine and makes adjustments accordingly. As far as custom tuning goes, I'm not sure what you would do for that. I'm eventually tuning, but I have a bunch of things I want to get done to my car before I start throwing more power into it.
Trust me when I say that after about 100 miles or so you will recognize the difference between the MCS and JCW. It's really different (in a great way). One thing I would caution is to be aware that the MCS clutch/DMF has failed prematurely on a lot of 07 and 08s. You are putting more power into the stock MCS/DMF clutch so just keep in the back of your head the possibility of needing to replace the clutch and DMF before you would like to. I haven't had any clutch slipping or issues, yet. But I am buying an uprated clutch/flywheel kit so I'm not left high and dry if my stock set-up does decide to fail.
Best of luck and enjoy!
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yes, i know that the ecu settings are definitely different. I am going to put my mcs turbo on for now and will be putting a jcw or gpop on and tuning after i make sure everything else is working ok. I know that the map sensor does not fit the wire harness, so i will need to swap that out as well.
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Yes, that's sort of where I'm at now.... I need to figure out how to have the turbo built... The shop I went with has mild to wild setups, and the cost difference between them isn't too big. Any recommendations for the tune?
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