You can often adapt AMG tables to similar non-AMG engines. Once I have dug into the tune file and compared against AMG, I began to realize Mercedes are somewhat meant to be tuned and out of the gate are a solid platform to start from.
There are a few things to note:
- AMG and non-AMG engines often have slightly different axis values
- These need to be adapted
- There is quite a bit of gain to be had by loosening up the "torque limiting" functions of the ECU
- These ECUs are sometimes defined as Torque Limiting ECUs
- Items like driver demand tables adapted to AMG are often smoother than Mercedes
- After loosening the Torque limits my 0-60 times dropped to 4.1 s from 4.17 s
- They are also much more consistent
- Some torque tables do serve somewhat as ESP aggressiveness
- Stock Mercedes ESP is somewhat too aggressive to me
