At Bluespark we receive a lot of questions about performance modifications and what mods are the best for improving performance.
Alongside tuning boxes, ECU remapping, air filters and inductions kits, Sports cats or de-catting are one of the most popular modifications people carry out on their cars.
We had a customer return to us with his already tuned by Bluespark, 2.5 226bhp Ford Focus ST after having a decat fitted. After tuning and dyno testing his stock engine earlier in the year, we tested the car to show the difference this combination of mods would make to performance.
Dyno Run 1 - Stock vehicle with Bluespark System(July 2021)
As a stock engine with no modifications, the engine produced 214bhp and 329Nm of torque on the dyno, not too different from the manufacturer claimed 224bhp and 320Nm.
After fitting our Bluespark Pro Petrol unit and making a few tweaks to the mapping, our engineers were able to increase performance by 31bhp and 42Nm. Not only did we increase peak figures to