in depth REMAPPING YOUR ENGINE
In all my years of writing for the motorhome industry, nobody has ever contacted a magazine to complain that they have too much power. All motorhomes are, in effect, fully laden vans running close to their maximum payload most of the time. They really do need all the power that they can get.
The thing about having additional power is that it’s not about speed or acceleration – no motorcaravanner wants to smash up all their crockery or make the dog feel travel sick.
Extra engine performance makes vehicles far more relaxing to drive. Instead of having to drop a gear for a gentle slope, extra power means you just need a little squeeze on the accelerator.
It makes joining a motorway less stressful, too, because you don’t need to work the gears so hard to get up to speed on the sliproad.
There’s a reason all luxury cars are powerful – the execs who drive them don’t want to whizz about, what they want is the effortless waft that comes with having increased horsepower.
At this point some of you are no doubt thinking, “But I don’t want to go any faster - fuel prices are shooting up, I need more economy.”
Counterintuitively, this is another area where increased horsepower can sometimes help. Economy is largely a function of revs and load. Clearly an engine has a fixed capacity determined by its cylinder volume – a 2.0-litre engine holds two litres of fuel-air mix (so each
