We all know and love the big luxury-sports car brand Lamborghini. The sleek aggressive styling of all the Lamborghini models paired with the monstrous V10 and V12 motors make the best-sounding, and looking, cars. However, if you’ve ever sat in or rode in a Lamborghini, you will know that they don’t make the best daily driver cars. I would take a safe bet and say that most of us were pretty surprised when Lamborghini came out with a performance SUV suited to be the most extreme but practical daily driver available. First shown off in 2012 as a concept car, little did we know that the SUV, dubbed the Urus, was not going anywhere but up anytime soon. After a few years, Lamborghini finally debuted the Urus as a consumer vehicle in February 2018.
The Urus now takes the crown title of “best-selling model in the shortest time”, with them producing 20,000 units after only four short years. The Urus truly is the perfect combination of luxury and speed. Don’t even get us started on how good the Urus looks, especially with how they derived a lot of the styling from the infamous Aventador lineup. Naturally, with all these positives they were bound to be a huge hit. You can go stay one or two days in Los Angeles and see enough Urus’s to last a lifetime. While this is in fact a good thing, as fellow car enthusiasts this can be slightly frustrating. Every stock Urus looks the same, and we definitely want to stand out amongst the crowd. Of course, you’re probably thinking of body kits as your go-to to stand out, but body kits most of the time are strictly for cosmetic purposes. What if you want to be able to gap all the other performance SUV’s on the road? What options are available to you?
Luckily, with the Urus being so popular, that also means that aftermarket companies are constantly competing to create the latest and greatest new product. Everything from exhausts, to whole turbo rebuilds are available. Although, these options are pretty expensive and yield little result without spending a pretty penny on parts and labor. If only there was a modification that you could install with little to no labor with a huge amount of power gain. It’s your lucky day, I have just the answer. ECU Flash tuning. “What is ECU Flash Tuning?” you might ask. Well essentially, a program rewrites some of the ignition timing maps, and boost settings inside your vehicles computer. Doing this allows the engine to run at its actual optimal power band as manufacturers purposefully detune their engines slightly from the factory. We’ll do a deep dive into our recommended ECU Flash tune in the next paragraph.
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Our recommended ECU Flash Tune is this VR Tuned ECU Flash for the Lamborghini Urus. We recommend this one specifically because we’ve tested it on multiple Urus’s with amazing success. With this tune, not only do you get the obvious huge power gains but driving characteristics are also altered. The altered driving characteristics include improved throttle response and better drivability. Installing the flash tune does require removal on the ECU, but trust us, that’s the hardest part. All you have to do is remove the ECU, ship it to us, we tune it and ship it back to you. Plus, any basic bolt on parts that you install, you will not need a retune as the tune will adjust itself automatically. However, there are some parts that you will need a retune with. You can see all those parts and further information here.
We know you’re dying to hear what our power numbers are looking like. Of course, we couldn’t make a whole post about a tuned Urus without strapping one down on our Mustang dyno and running it ourselves. Running the Urus at a complete stock setup returned data that read 650 horsepower, along with 626 ft/lbs of torque. Not bad for an SUV, but also not satisfactory for us. After pulling the ECU and tuning it, we ran it once more on the new modified software. The returned data read back 720 horsepower with 740 ft/lbs of torque. That’s a impressive 70 horsepower gain, with 114 ft/lbs of torque gain. All from just a software change. You can clearly see why we recommend such a product.
- Stock Power 650hp | 626ft/lbs
- Tuned Power 720hp | 740ft/lbs
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