Al Ain Tuning: TB48 Patrols and 70 Series
Al Ain work splits two ways: turbo Patrol and 70 Series builds running standalone Motec or Haltech ECUs, and the tractors, telehandlers and irrigation pumps working the farms around Al Yahar. Sand drag setup for Tilal Swaihan, mountain maps for Jebel Hafeet, and a ninety minute drive to the bench in Abu Dhabi.
What Al Ain brings us
Tuning the TB48 Patrol Super Safari
The TB48 is the engine most of our Al Ain work is built around. It is an iron-block straight six with a forgiving bottom end, which is why owners keep asking it for numbers no factory engineer intended.
Two builds come through most often. Naturally aspirated with headers, an intake and a matched calibration is the daily driver answer, and the gains there are modest and repeatable. Full turbo on a Precision 6466 is the other, and past a certain boost pressure the calibration stops being the limiting factor. Fuel takes over. Pump 98 RON puts a hard ceiling on ignition timing under boost, and beyond it you are choosing between an ethanol blend, a fuel system upgrade, or a lower target. We also set the rev limiter overrun behaviour so the engine is never asked for something the valve train cannot survive.
Jebel Hafeet and Tilal Swaihan need different maps
Jebel Hafeet is a sustained load climb. A mountain map for it is about throttle resolution and mid-range torque, so the car pulls cleanly out of a hairpin without dropping a gear, and about confirming that coolant and intake temperatures hold all the way to the top.
Tilal Swaihan is the opposite problem: one short, full-boost pass through soft sand, and that pass is where the data comes from. The Dragy Pro times it while the ECU logs knock correction, intake air temperature, lambda and actual boost through the run. Then we walk back to the truck and set the boost target from what the engine did on the sand. It takes more passes than a dyno session would, and it is measured in the heat the truck actually works in.
Farm and plant ECUs around Al Yahar
Al Ain is farm country, and the machinery working it runs the same diesel control units as everything else. Tractors, telehandlers, irrigation pumps and standby generators all suffer the derating and DPF complaints that road diesels do, and all of them can be read and remapped. A tractor on a date farm at Al Yahar is the same class of job as a Land Cruiser 70, and often the more useful one, because a machine that derates at noon in July costs the farm a working day.
What we see most in Al Ain
The ones with a linked spec page have published stock, Stage 1 and Stage 2 figures. The rest are quoted from the engine code.
Every platform we publish figures for
Al Ain vehicles are worked at our partner workshops like everything else. Anything with an engine control unit can be read on that bench, including trucks, buses, JCB and plant, farm machinery, generators and marine engines.
Areas we serve in Al Ain
Questions we get from Al Ain
Do you have a workshop in Al Ain?
Can you tune my VTC on Motec?
Do you offer Pop and Bang maps?
I have a Jimny. Can you make it faster?
How do you set boost without a dyno?
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The other emirates we cover
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Send your make, model, year and what you want from the tune. We come back with a price and the gain the file will realistically make.
