If you're the owner of a 2018 or newer Mustang GT and wanna go with one of the most trusted
names in the community for your pump gas, E85, or intake manifold tune, then the Lund
Racing nGauge combination would be the way to go.
Now Lund Racing will provide you with one custom tune for your manual or automatic 2018
or newer GT, along with the extremely user-friendly and attractive nGauge device, which is gonna
start just south of 600 bucks for the pump gas tune and go up from there.
Now, your installation will be extremely easy using the nGauge device, and we'll show you
how to get your tune uploaded and walk you through the device later in the video.
So if you've been around the Mustang world for any amount of time, then chances are you've
probably heard the name Lund or Lund Racing thrown around and for good reason.
That's because they're easily one of the most trusted names in the game and have been that
way for many years when it comes to tuning your late-model Ford, including some of the
fastest Mustangs in the world.
In fact, the team at Lund Racing is behind the tuning for the eight-second stock motor
and trans 2018 Mustang GT along with some of the other fastest 2018s out there at this
time.
But before we talk about some of the tweaks the team at Lund utilized to squeeze more
power out of your 2018 or newer GT, let's break out some Dyno numbers.
Now, first we're gonna cover the gains when using 93 octane and then we'll go over some
of the gains when using E85.
For reference sake, all of the runs were done on a manual 2018 GT in fourth gear, which
by the way is 1:1.
Baseline run on 93 octane gave us 429 horsepower and 397 pound-feet of torque to the rear wheels.
With the pump gas tune uploaded from Lund Racing, the car is now making 441 horsepower
and 414 pound-feet of torque to the rear tires.
That's good for a peak gain of 12 horsepower over those baseline numbers and gains at as
much as 16 horsepower and 30 pound-feet of torque under the curve.
With E85 in the tank and the corresponding tune from Lund Racing, the car is now putting
out 464 horsepower and 429 pound-feet of torque to the rear wheels.
That's good for a peak gain of 35 horsepower over those baseline numbers and gains at as
much as 36 horsepower and 42 pound-feet of torque under the curve.
So as you can see, pump gas tune-only numbers were pretty impressive overall but you can
really see where the benefit is in using E85 if it's available in your area.
Not only is E85 cheaper than premium in most cases, its resistance to that nation along
with the increased cooling capabilities safely allow for more timing over conventional pump
gas and that's why you're gonna see a big bump in power over 93 octane.
But aside from fueling how is Lund going to make more power on your ride.
Well, in a nutshell, they will make some small adjustments to both cam and ignition timing,
along with some changes to torque management or clutch protection depending on your transmission.
Now if you do happen to have one of those new 10-speed automatics, the crew at Lund
Racing will have your car driving and shifting like a completely different animal keeping
you in the power band under wide-open throttle pulls at all time.
Now it is important to point out that 2018 and newer GT owners out there do have a few
different options when it comes to the Lund tunes at the time of this video.
Your most basic or entry-level option will be your pump gas tune, which will also be
your most affordable.
From there, you can step into the E85 or flex-fuel tune which will allow you to run straight
E85 or pump gas or any combination of the two.
This is a very useful tune if the ethanol availability in your area is a bit hit or
miss as you don't have to change your tune when changing your fuel.
Finally, there is a tune available for owners interested in using an aftermarket intake
manifold such as your Cobra Jet or your CJ for instance.
And those intake manifold tunes, by the way, can be had in either pump gas or E85 flavors
as well.
But now that you know a little bit more about the tune from Lund Racing, let's get into
the car, show you how awesome the nGauge is.
We'll walk you through the device and show you how to upload your tune.
All right, guys, so we're in our 2018 GT here.
We have the Lung Racing nGauge on our windshield mount, suction cup mount right now just to
give you guys a better vantage of what's going on.
But I will say one of the great things about this device is its shape and it's a perfect
fit for your center gauges or center vents here in your S550 Mustang.
A very popular mounting spot for this but again, for the purposes of this video, we
went with the suction cup mount just to show you guys what's up.
But now let's walk you through the process of how to upload your custom Lund tune to
your 2018 GT.
All right, first things first, guys, you're gonna wanna plug in your nGauge to your car's
OBD-II port located on the left-hand side lower portion of your dashboard and wait for
the device to power on.
Now, once Lund sends you your email tune, you're simply just gonna wanna drag and drop
it onto the nGauge device.
Again, one of the nice things about this is that it is SD card based, very easy to use.
So with it powered up, we're gonna go simply to the tuning portion here.
At this point, we're just gonna simply load our tune.
This is our pump gas tune for our 2018 manual GT so we'll go ahead and confirm.
Flash this tune.
Another one of the nice things about the nGauge device is its speed of flashing.
Now, granted it's saying it's taking 11 minutes here.
This is the very first time we flashed this car with this device.
After doing this for the first time, your future flashes will be even quicker, no more
than a few minutes from start to finish.
At this point, we're just gonna follow the on-screen instructions.
It did prompt us to turn on our key but not start the vehicle.
With the push-button start on the 2018 Mustang, simply just push the button once with your
foot off the brake and it will turn it on to accessory mode.
So again, guys, this is our first time flashing the car with the nGauge.
We see our progress bar right here.
Roughly 11 minutes, that's the longest this is gonna take.
After that, no more than a few minutes from start to finish.
All right, guys, so we're about halfway there as you can see.
It's still saving our stock calibration and that's good because if you do ever wanna put
your car back to stock, the nGauge will store your stock file and you can totally do that
very easily here with the device.
This also just happens to be the longest part of the equation.
It's not gonna do this every time.
It's only doing it because this is the first time we're flashing our car using the nGauge.
So once it saves it once, it has the file stored and flashes from here on out will be
much quicker.
All right, guys, so after about 10 to 15 minutes give or take, the tune has finished up and
we are now ready to rock and roll.
But now I'm gonna walk you through the device a little bit and kind of show you what's up.
So we'll get out of the tune screen.
We'll go back to our home screen.
Now, whenever you fire up the device for the very first time or start your car, this essentially
is the screen you will be looking at.
This is your home screen.
We showed you the tuning screen already.
This is where you wanna go to load your tune, check the status, all that good stuff, load
your stock tune again.
If you wanted to go back to stock, very easy to do.
Just simply hit that button and you can return the vehicle to stock.
But I think the biggest draw to the nGauge besides its shape and its ease of use and
its quick flashing are the gauges.
There's a number of different ways you can set these things up, so let's check those
out.
So we're gonna turn our key on here.
All right, guys, every time you plug your device in or start your car, this is your
home screen.
This is what you'll be looking at.
The tuning section is what we've already showed you guys.
This is where you'll go to load your tune for the very first time.
You can also turn on the device or your car to learn your vehicle info.
This will tell you your VIN, your strategy, and the tune you are currently running.
Go down a little bit, if you wanted to load your stock tune, go back to stock.
I'd mentioned that earlier.
Very easy to do here with the nGauge.
Simply click on the load stock button and you're on your way.
Now the Diagnostics is where you'll go when you wanna do some data logging or when you
want to access the SD card.
Again this is SD-based.
You can change the settings of the device as well.
Sleep and wake, brightness things like that.
Here's where you'll also be able to read and clear your diagnostic trouble codes, better
known as check engine lights.
Crank relearn, if you do a clutch or a flywheel install on manual car, sometimes that is necessary
so they have that option with the nGauge.
But one of the big features, in my opinion, is the ease of data logging here with the
nGauge device.
So here it goes, 2011-plus for the PID or the PIDs, so that's what we want to concentrate
on for our car here, select that.
Now this is your data logging screen.
You'll notice right now it's just checking the PIDs and all that stuff.
The car isn't running.
If you wanted to do a data log for your tuner, Lund in this case, very, very simple to do.
All you'll need to do is basically just hit the screen one time.
You can see the lights flashing.
It is now data logging your car.
Now, whenever you wanna stop it, very easy, hit it again and the log has been stopped.
The nice thing is you can do this as many times as you want and it's all gonna separate
the logs chronologically and not just piece them all together like other products out
there in the market, and that makes it a little tougher on your tuner to decipher different
runs.
This one's gonna break it down for you by run chronologically as you hit your button
here and then turn it off.
So again one of the big things I really enjoy about the nGauge is the ease of data logging.
But now let's go to probably the biggest feature I would say with this or any gauge or handheld
device like this, and that is your on-screen gauges and monitoring capabilities.
So we're gonna connect it to our car here, making sure the key is on.
So here's one of a few different layouts we're looking at.
And this is one of the more interesting ones, this is the digital gauge.
As you can see up here, guys, it's broken down into a number of different categories
and that's our RPM there.
So you can set this up as a tach or a shift light.
And you can pre-designate the RPM in each one of these little boxes here.
So say we wanted to put this at 4,000, there we go and for instance, let's start the car
and you can see we're at 1,000 RPM, that's illuminated there it's dropped down below
a thousand.
But if we rev it up a little bit, see those lights kind of go up and down based on the
RPM that we set here.
So again, you can see how this would be useful for, again, maybe a shift light or you can
set it up for your air-fuel ratio.
If things start leaning out a little bit, it'll give you a warning light in that regard.
But very, very useful.
Let's show you some of the other gauges here real quick with this device.
This is more of a traditional round gauge.
We have it currently set to RPM but we're also looking at our knock sensor as well.
You can totally change that signal if you wanted to monitor something else, maybe your
air-fuel ratio or lambda.
So it's still gonna maintain our RPM up top but now we're looking at our lambda down below.
I really enjoy this.
It's kind of simple, kind of old-school but, let me get to my favorite signal here or gauge
layout and that's the six at one time.
And again, guys, you can set this up in a number of different ways.
You can change every single one of these values to whatever you wanna look at at any given
time.
For instance, what we're looking at right now intake air temp, oil pressure, your spark,
basically your spark advance, diff temp, and all kinds of good stuff.
So I'll show you how easy it is to change one of these signals.
Turn this on and again, you have a number of different things you can check out at any
given time.
I'm going to speed this up just simply holding your finger down and it'll scroll through
a little bit faster as well.
Fuel pump duty cycle, so we'll just select that and there it is.
So again, a number of different things you can check out at any given time.
You can change the color of these things if you wanna make them a little bit more visible.
You can change the layout.
You can even go back to a more simple four-style layout as well.
So you're just looking at four values at one time, things that might be a little bit more
crucial to you.
And again, set these up however you like.
Get out of it and we're back at our home screen.
All right, guys, so there you have it.
That's our brief walkthrough of the nGauge device and review.
As you can see, it's very user-friendly, very functional, and a very capable, little device
that looks pretty darn good in the interior as well.
We hope you enjoyed this review of the Lund Racing nGauge and tune combo.
And for more info, be sure to check it out right here at americanmuscle.com.