if you guys have been following along with the channel you know that i installed a
race chip tuner last week in my brand new jeep wrangler jl and this is a week later
in today's video i wanted to give you my experiences in the past week try out each
of the modes and kind of maybe show you guys a little bit of the difference but overall
i'm super pumped with this product let's jump into it and see how we do
well guys as many of you know i've been in the jeep industry for a long time and there's been
a lot of products that i've personally seen that have been uh there's a word for it called snake
oil now when i say snake oil it's kind of like smoking mirrors it's a throttle body spacer it's
the twisting hurricane throttle body adapter that'll give you 20 horsepower it's stuff that
doesn't work but there's no real way to prove that it doesn't work you know if you're gonna add five
horsepower you're not really gonna notice anyways unless you take it to a dyno i was a little bit
skeptical when i first started reviewing tuners and kind of the add-on ecu chips programmers onto
the jeep to see what it really could do you know what i mean i am one of those guys that i don't
like to waste my hard earned money on something that's not going to work with this i can tell
you i am seeing a difference so the biggest thing that i've been able to use during the week is i
use eco mode while i'm driving back and forth to work and that seemed to help me by adding almost
like it was like 1.2 miles a gallon that i'm used to getting so i have been going back and
forth between the modes but i am noticing in the eco mode especially on the highway
i am really getting a lot better fuel economy it seems like even at the lower speeds when
typically you get less fuel economy i'm kind of bumped up in those numbers so i don't know if
it's up to 20 like they claim but right away i did notice a little bit of a difference
if you have a longer highway commute that's where i'm really really seeing the benefits because when
i was on the highway it was averaging almost 28 29 miles a gallon which is absolutely ludicrous
so i wanted to do a little bit of comparison here the eco mode is what i stay in a lot of the time
and i'll say we're kind of making the same loop around here we're driving safe we're not going
above the speed limit but in eco mode you do feel i would say like just a little bit hint of less
power so just a little hint of a little bit less power than i'm used to right off the gate and of
course you're gonna have that when you're trying to reduce gas consumption so in the eco mode just
for that loop i was averaging right around 26 27 miles per gallon we're gonna change it
into sport now sport gives you a little bit more adjustability you have seven settings so for mode
one through seven one is the least aggressive and the most economical and then seven is your
race all out ready to go mode so in the sport you can adjust it in the fine-tuning side to go from
modes four five or six i have it in five so kind of middle of the road and i would say sport if you
want to do number four or five it's kind of just a little bit more peppy there's like three modes so
three stages so we're turning it into sport right now of course when i do this i kind of have to
press the gas and you can feel a difference not as much when it's in race mode
but i can feel it in the sport mode just a little bit of a difference i'll probably not
get as good of fuel economy because i'm pressing the fun pedal a little bit more
but i would say you can feel it it is there but then when you're off the gas so what's crazy about
the 2-liter it begs you to get good mileage so i'm still getting like when you lay off the gas
it's still like up over 30 just kind of cruising it's crazy so before we get into the mode that
everyone of course wants to see the race mode the high output the fastest one on here the biggest
thing that i liked about this tuner now mind you i've been installing a ton of g parts throughout
the years and when it comes to the technology that these things offer it's just it's gotten
so advanced from when i used to begin with this when you could buy a little chip tuner for a tj
that literally you had to plug it directly into the ecu i mean it was it was crazy you couldn't
really tell if you were getting any differences it had no modes to change it was just a they were jet
tuners i believe was the name of them and then the jks had a little bit more you could get big
screens on the dash and tap into it with your laptop and update it all the time but then we
get to this where if you guys have seen the installation where you literally unplug two
connectors if you need if you have like three basic hand tools you can install this and then you
have the app right on your phone so i can kind of toggle back and forth between listening to music
and changing a mode right there this is probably the pinnacle of the ones that i've seen as far as
the tech that's added to it and i'm just i'm a really big fan of it you know i can't say enough
about the ease of use of this too if you like i said have a couple tools you can get this done and
then you can put it into race mode and have some fun i was just showing ryan i kind of gunned it
going down through there a little bit and you can definitely feel and hear the difference so we're
at a stop sign we're on some back country roads let's pull out and see if we can get it to chirp
i mean it kind of like it's spinning 35 so yeah
you hear that i mean you can feel it definitely faster than a 2.7 liter bronco so we're gonna
try and do uh we'll pull onto the highway here where we can get up to some safe speeds and
i'll go to the entrance ramp and we'll do a zero to sixty we'll do it first in
the uh just off so you the nice thing on this tuner too if you don't want the tuner on at all
you can press a power button at the lower left turn it completely off so we'll do a 0 to 60
with the tuner off and then we'll go to race full number 7 mode and do the same
0 to 60. same weather same temperature same top configuration and really see what the differences
are so one thing just noticing too like i kind of live in a hilly area in pennsylvania
and going up and down the hills when it's in race mode you really do feel the difference so
i would say probably in sport or race is where i might keep it to tow my off-road trailer it
almost feels like you're getting a tow haul mode out of it so i think that and then maybe combined
with like they have almost a pedal response modifier it's called their i think it's xlr
by race chip that changes the responsiveness of the electronic pedal control so unlike the older
vehicles we actually have a throttle cable this is all electronically controlled and it adjusts the
input to the output to the ecu so maybe i'll have to install that on there too and really see what
kind of power heck maybe we'll race a 392 one day and see who wins i don't know probably the
392 still but oh well you can try so i got the tuning off tuning is deactivated so we're gonna
do zero to sixty so i just gotta kind of like pull out here and i'm gonna stop all right ready
zero to sixty let's go
definitely you could feel the less power on that you could feel like
initially it didn't have as much power when it's in race mode so let's we're going to turn this
back on back into race mode we're going to turn around up here on the highway and then we're going
to do 0-60 in in race mode and ryan you're going to have to let us know you're kind of the judge
in the back there with uh editing all right ryan we might have to turn and burn
all right all right let's let's do the same thing 0-60 let's do it ready
it felt it felt a little bit more it felt it felt like towards the higher end when it's
starting to make more power that it had a little bit more to it i don't know it could just be me
now obviously we're not racing this thing we're not going down a quarter-mile drag strip with
it we're just driving it but it felt it felt like a little bit of something well guys that's going
to be it for today's video i know that for some of you that have been patiently waiting since i
did the installation for the review this is it so this is the review i don't like to do just install
it and drive it around the block and say yeah it's awesome i wanted to drive it for a week figure out
all the modes really tinker with it and make sure this was a cool product and a good product before
i said yeah this thing this thing works on my jeep so it'll be interesting to see long term how this
performs how it holds up and i'm excited i know ryan is for longer road trips if i can drop this
thing in eco mode and save ourselves two to three miles a gallon that's really gonna add up if we're
driving out to michigan or up north to maine or something like that it's gonna save fuel and just
help us out plus the race mode too is neat just to have fun on some back country roads like we did
today for those of you that have been following along we just hit a pretty big milestone we hit
5000 subscribers and if you guys have been looking at all of our videos i'd try it's either me or
it's ryan dropping a comment back to every single person that comments down there and you know it's
it's something that i enjoy to do i like to have the camaraderie the community behind all of this
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