Seeing as hardly anyone has tried tuning the 1750 TBi 159 I thought I would start a thread following the tuning of my car. I don't know if anyone will be interested but maybe it will help someone else with a 159 1750TBi who is looking to improve performance.
Honestly, the 159 is such a fantastic car and it makes me sad to see that few people have even bothered to give it a try. Think of it like this: BMW make excellent cars, no question, I have owned a few and besides the occasional styling hiccup, they really are great cars. But BMW sell millions of cars and they have a huge budget to develop new ones, so one should expect nothing less. Now take the 159, the engineering (like the excellent suspension), the looks, the attention to detail, all this from a manufacturer that sells 150,000 cars a year and is on a shoe string budget. You really have to take your hat off to Alfa. The fact that this car was launched in 2005, yet in 2013, without any exterior facelift, it still attracts attention like you cannot believe is, testament to this.
Taking all this into account, the only thing I would improve on my car is the engine. It is a great engine, pulling from so low down and it really moves the big car along, but it doesn't feel like an Alfa engine. It is too quiet, and doesn't feel like it wants to be thrashed. So that is why I have decided to improve it by replacing the exhaust, changing the intake and remapping the ECU. This thread is going to follow the progress of my modifications to my 159 and the results thereof.
For easy reference I have labelled all my posts relating to the topic of this thread with "Tuning"
Honestly, the 159 is such a fantastic car and it makes me sad to see that few people have even bothered to give it a try. Think of it like this: BMW make excellent cars, no question, I have owned a few and besides the occasional styling hiccup, they really are great cars. But BMW sell millions of cars and they have a huge budget to develop new ones, so one should expect nothing less. Now take the 159, the engineering (like the excellent suspension), the looks, the attention to detail, all this from a manufacturer that sells 150,000 cars a year and is on a shoe string budget. You really have to take your hat off to Alfa. The fact that this car was launched in 2005, yet in 2013, without any exterior facelift, it still attracts attention like you cannot believe is, testament to this.
Taking all this into account, the only thing I would improve on my car is the engine. It is a great engine, pulling from so low down and it really moves the big car along, but it doesn't feel like an Alfa engine. It is too quiet, and doesn't feel like it wants to be thrashed. So that is why I have decided to improve it by replacing the exhaust, changing the intake and remapping the ECU. This thread is going to follow the progress of my modifications to my 159 and the results thereof.
For easy reference I have labelled all my posts relating to the topic of this thread with "Tuning"
