Re-flashing your ECM or remotely advancing injection timing and the quantity of fuel that goes in for each power stroke could certainly give an underpowered, fuel-thirsty truck a boot in the rear. Pitt Power engineers are constantly researching modern engines and ECMs to determine what can be improved, he says. “If you can do just a mile or a mile and a half better, you’re going to put about $20,000 extra in your pocket each year,” he says. He hasn’t tracked the exact fuel mileage benefits, but says he did gain nearly 150 horsepower – currently at 580, up from the stock 435.įuel costs can be cut and power squeezed from stock ECM programming, says Pittsburgh Power owner Bruce Mallinson, whose company specializes in diesel engine performance and does the type of work Backlund had done. “It’s been a night and day difference with fuel economy and power,” Backlund says.
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