Outlander ZJ-ZK Petrol tuning

[Andrei1984]

There is virtually 0 info online in relation to tuning the petrol version (diesel can be tuned quite easily).

The most affordable solution that I found so far was to use MMCflash software to read the rom and then write with Openport 2 cable. For the software to work it requires a key (encrypted usb dongl - $30US plus a module which is specific to the processor used, in this case module 25 - $130US. The module will work with ecu.s which run MH8115F processor, at the moment it is Outlander 2013 +, ASX 2013 + and the new mirage, all petrol.

In Europe they still kept 4b11-12 motors for the Outlanders, so i took the risk and bought the module anyway in a hope that it will work with the ECU running 4J11-12 engines.

We were successfully able to read from the ECU yesterday (rom is 1.2mb in size), and Merlin is now working on writing an XML definition for the ECUflash. Unfortunately the existing XML from CJ lancer running 2.4 4b12 proved only to be of limited assistance as things have been moved around.

I hope to tune in few weeks time and will keep on updating this thread.

UPDATE: Looks like a lot of things are quite different, cant seem to find spark maps and found a bunch of weird Mivec maps, perhaps the valve lift control maps