Not next week or even next month but maybe later this year I have kicked around the idea of doing a pully and having a high-end performance shop around here tune the car.

I know there isn't a lot of Jag tuners so looking at that place that does mostly Lambo, GTR's Porsche, Audi, and more all with great results (Cicio Performance).

Wanted to see if anyone did it and their thoughts on it. I am not expecting huge numbers nor want them, just some more smiles and of course more blower noises. Car is a stock 2017 F-Type SVR

 

Hi, I dont have experience with the F Type SVR but I have done those mods to my v6S, and I have the F Pace SVR which kind of puts me with a foot in both camps.

I love the mods and would find it hard to have the F Type without them given I am used to the extra grunt in the v6S. Having the F Pace SVR, personally I dont think that the F Type needs more than the 550hp and the torque that engine delivers. My maincomplaint about that car is that you need to put your foot down to get the juicy noise but it is so fast that you are risking fines after a few seconds, so I am driving it a lot less enthusiastically than I do the slower 450hp F Type. I have also had some mechanical issues with the F Type over the past 12 months. The mods limited who was prepared to work on the car, and that came as a rude shock, and other things happened which made me appreciate that modding these things isnt all upside.

If I was in your place I would consider the air intake mod which delivers incredible supercharger whine. I will probably eventually do that one in the F Pace SVR which is far too quiet in the '22 year that I have. But bear in mind that the filter boxes come out which then (in the F Type) leaves a lot more exposure under the car to crap coming up, I think some sort of tray or plate to replace the effect of the boxes would be a good thing.

 

One other thing to consider.... the ZF8HP70 max torque spec. I think the SVR's are just under that spec (there is a reason JLR stop where they stop...they too could tune for more power trivially......

 

I have the same car...I am running Stg 3 Upper and Lower, VAP Tune, Transmission Tune, Downpipes 200 Cell, and a Intake. Car is a beast, smiles for miles. I highly recommend!

 

Yes contact VAP. They have a large amount of parts/mods for your car. I am another happy customer running their lower pulley and tune for about 3 years now. Better mileage plus all that extra power. I have never had such an increase in power for so little money.
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2018 F-Type R just with lower and upper , ECU/TCU remaping and we are in the tenths, also done while letting off before finish of the 1/4th mi

 

Why did you let off?

 

Lots of shops offer these mods with great power gains, but I believe you can get near 700bhp with just a tune and no pulley changes on the 5.0 SC cars.

In case it is of interest, we can also bore out the TB for these cars. Running a bigger TB has proven to be a good power adder for dual pulley cars as proven on the fastest 5.0 supercharged car in the world (XFR on stock supercharger which is running low 10s in the quarter mile).

Picture of an older 4.2 TB which has been bored from 75mm to 84.5mm for illustration purposes.

 

I'm in San Diego not a lot of open roads to even go 1/8mi and forget about the 1/4mi. Closest track is 5 1/2 hours away , but either way that's the fastest on record even with letting off 😆
Feel free to reach out we can get your car much faster and ruining safe and with minimal modifications!

 

Lol good call then was just curious as to what happened. It does get up there fast - mine is a 2015 with both pulleys, tune, cats, intake (VAP) so it is already done. I can't quite put down those numbers with the RWD though.

 

Well if you want it faster reach out, we retuned many cars after other tuners.

 

What's your tuning process? Also is it possible for you to remove the automatic opening of the valves after 4000 (or around there) rpm? I would like to have the option of tracking the car but many tracks now have noise restrictions that I think I would violate (with the aftermarket cats).

 

Tuning we can easily do remotely we have handheld tools that work with your phone for example. On your end you pretty much just have to connect to your car through OBD2 port and to Wi-Fi and we remotely connect and do what needs to be done. We can do ECU and the transmission the same way.
Yes we can adjust many parameters; valve opening , we can reduce or increase the pops and bangs, can turn off the Eco start and other things...

 

I've stopped by Cicio a few times, they are not a Tier 2 dealer for VAP but will sell our products. We also have a Tier 2 dealer Rennhaus in Sarasota that's very familiar with our product line, has all the tuning equipment on site etc.

 

This is great info and thank you


Realistically want to do the fully (crank) and tune at once but if needed can I do the tune 1st to support the followed up pully.


Not looking to light up the drag strip but some power is always nice. Car is our Daily and still brings a lot.of smiles

 

If we can get it around a 700 hp car that is good to still daily and cruise but open up when we want. That's then ideal.sweet spot here.

 

You might get close-ish with both pulleys, high flow cats, bigger intercooler, good 93/94 octane, and an aggressive tune but that's not a sweet spot, it's the upper threshold of what you'll get out of the stock supercharger. VAP has a larger supercharger upgrade that should get you a bit over 700.

 

Def more than we want to go to with this car..

It will live on 91 octane as it's a daily and never going out of our way to find gas. The wife drives it 90% of the time as her office is about 5 miles from home and mine if about 35. Also never see us touching the exhaust at all, not on the plans and won't be.

 

On 91, I'd probably go with crank pulley and tune, and not go further than that. You'll get a little less than our posted 93/94 Octane numbers but still some nice torque & throttle response.

 

Noted and was the original plan.

Gonna call the Sarasota for a quote on it all. Thank you for your replied on this, very helpful



A blown cammed, and all that Mustang prior and while fun just much more work than we want.