What is ECU Tuning? Quick & Comprehensive Guide!

Daniel Kouznetsov
13 min readDec 12, 2020

I often get asked, what is ECU tuning? ECU tuning, also known as chipping, mapping, or remapping, its a popular term that is often thrown around by car enthusiasts, mechanics, and anyone who may be looking to modify or upgrade their vehicle. This may come as a scary and a very complicating term, however, it’s actually a fairly simple upgrade that can be done to almost any vehicle on our roads today. With loads of benefits, an ECU tune may be the cheaper, easier, and most effective way you may be looking for to get the most out of your vehicle.

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Here I’ll discuss what is ECU tuning, how do you tune an ECU, why should you do an ECU tune, the cost to tune your vehicle, and more.

By now, you’re probably really eager to learn what is ECU tuning, so let’s get dig straight into it!

What Is ECU Tuning?

Firstly, let’s break it down. ECU stands for Engine Control Unit. As the name suggests, the ECU…

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Daniel Kouznetsov
Daniel Kouznetsov

Written by Daniel Kouznetsov

Founder of All Things Horsepower (@allthingshorsepower on instagram), Co Founder of multiple E-Commerce stores, and a massive car enthusiast.

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