TUNING THE S550 MUSTANG

11th July 2024

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Motorsport & Performance

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YOU’D IMAGINE YOU COULD GO TO ANY TUNER TO HAVE YOUR S550 MUSTANG REMAPPED, RIGHT? NOT EXACTLY.

As an S550 Mustang specialist, we recognise that though the marque has decades of rich history, that should not get in the way of what it is today.

If you are here looking for your own Mustang Tuning and are more interested in pricing and what we offer rather than a blog, please take a minute to check out our Mustang Tuning services page.  If you are interested in having your car tuned but don’t own a Mustang you want to be looking at our general tuning section, we have tuning packages available for the vast majority of vehicles on the road today.

Ford pulled out all the stops when they celebrated the Mustangs 50th anniversary, building a modern performance machine that would dominate in any market around the world. To improve on that … we needed some industry-leading partners to work with.

A quick search and one brand kept jumping out at us, and it’s not surprising why. HP Tuners are a world recognised Goliath in the tuning industry, and yep, they specialise in Ford PCM’s. Their latest generation of hardware and software offers the fastest reads and writes, unrivalled levels of data integrity and the higher reliability that you need when you are tuning a machine as capable as the S550 Mustang. 

The thing with Tuning software is though; it’s not much good without the knowledge to use it. Software engineers are rarely tuners and tuners rarely software engineers (though both require a level of understanding of one another’s trade). It just so happened that whilst we were searching for a system to give us the access to the S550 ECU that we needed to build the ultimate street machines, HP Tuners were looking for professionals to use their software in the UK and European Markets.

This is where our background in tuning set us apart. Our skills as tuners were forged, setting up and tuning fully custom ECU’s, writing maps from scratch to run on a wide variety of manufacturers performance cars from the ’80s, ’90s and 2000s. Anyone who knows of (or anything about) Rotary engines can probably imagine just how unforgiving they are if you don’t know exactly what you are doing when tuning an ECU that controls one – we continue to prove our worth tuning 500hp+ 1.3-litre Rotary’s on our Dyno even still today under our Rotary Revs banner. 

Working with HP Tuners has given us the tools we need to be able to apply that knowledge and experience to your Mustang. Ensuring the best files, the most power and believe it or not, the best economy too.

MAP PACKAGES

The Motorsport and Performance S550 Mustang remap packages offer straight forward solutions to your cars tuning requirements. For those of you looking for that extra edge though, or that have already strayed from the beaten path to achieve the kind of goals most shy from, we also offer fully custom Tuning to address yours and your cars specific requirements – nobody does it better than us, our track record tells that story but never the less, were keen to prove it to you too!

We also have a few fun plugins for those looking for some nice perks with their remap. These can include but are not limited to:

  • Crackle Overrun
  • Two-Step limiter/ Launch control

Customers in the UK or willing to travel might choose to visit us for a live remap on our Dyno. This is a must to achieve the very best and most precise results, and we recommend it wherever it is practical, particularly for cars running forced induction.

For those without that flexibility though we also offer MAP tuning files and Hardware options to allow you to benefit from our expertise whilst having the convenience of being able to apply the files at home, anywhere in the world.

What our customers say...

MAP have done a full remit of work on my car, and everything was mega professional to say I'm happy with the car now would be dumbing it down. I'm over the moon with it, it's the first time getting in the car after their work, and it's a total game changer drives exactly as it should do and how I wanted it to.

Wayne Austin

Visited MAP today. Friendly, welcoming, very knowledgeable guys and got exactly what I asked for with a few tweaks from their recommendations. Couldn't fault the place and a very impressive dyno setup. Will definitely be back.

Tom Fletcher

Amazing place to get work done on your car fixed the issues I had with my car and then tuned the car and made it so much better would highly recommend

Adam Jones

Wow, I've finally found someone I can trust,
These guys know their stuff on tunes 100% highly recommend them, fantastic keep it up

Michael Beard

Had my car at MAP again, as normal what brilliant service you get..!
I couldn’t praise or recommend them enough. It’s so nice to be able to call a company up, and they know what they are doing. The people working there are true professionals, from a service to fault finding to mods. I wouldn’t go anywhere.

Neil Roberts

Outstanding from start to finish! Ben and the team are so helpful, they offer the best advice, not profit-driven advice, which is refreshing. The exhaust upgrade is beyond what I expected. Thanks, Ben & the team. See you soon for the pulley change and tune!!!

Ty Brooks

An amazingly talented bunch of guys with a huge amount of enthusiasm for the job. Made my Mustang into a 500bhp beast, and I love it. Thank you, MAP!

Benn Laidler

Well worth the Journey, Top guys at MAP. Solved and cured a problem two garages had failed at before them. 👊

Rob Clarke