ZFG will not use this. He uses HPTuners and will stay that way.
Don't bother with the Cobb OTS tune. If you want to go this Cobb route, go to
@GooseTuned. Winfield, who runs it, makes a custom tune file using the Cobb Accessport. He does great work on the Raptors.
I will be interested to see what numbers Goosetuned gets from this platform. Based on my Raptor experience, Goosetuned will make a great tune and Adam and Winfield should be the only tuners anyone considers for these cars. Competition is always great for us owners. The downside of the Cobb Accessport is that it's missing the ability to do the cool stuff Adam does like the DMS tune, transbrake, etc.
Winfield got some pretty decent numbers on day 1 of custom tuning the car:
This was with an Intercooler, Intake, and charge piping on E50. I imagine he still has some more tuning to do. He is also at a much higher elevation, and the smoothing on the dyno is set to 4, so that will bring down the figures a bit.
Adam Brunson from Tune+ will have his single turbo setup running soon:
Some other tuners I know of:
-Tune+ is pretty popular with Focus RS, Fiesta ST. He has had a development Explorer ST for a while, as shown above.
-PDTuning (now Ryan Martin at EMS) is a solid Ecoboost tuner. I've seen him tune a lot of Focus STs, RSs, and Ecoboost Mustangs. I think he made over 900whp on a 2.3L Ecoboost. I've seen him in the Explorer ST facebook groups.
-Unleashed Tuning: Not sure if Torrie is a Cobb tuner, but he's been tuning Ecoboosts for a very long time
-Tunewerks: Randy Robles (Formerly at Mountune) has been tuning Ecoboosts for a long time as well. I see he offers tunes for the Raptor, I can't imagine why he wouldn't for the Explorer.
-Edgeautosport: Alan Jackson is touted by many in the Focus ST community to be the GOAT. I had a great experience and result with him, so I will have him tune my Explorer ST when the time comes...
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