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Got a Wolf tuning remap on my Maruti Baleno petrol

10th February 2022, 20:56 by Dev Shah

The initial lag below 2500 rpm is gone and the car pulls cleanly from the word go.

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I was in the market to get a decent hatchback in 2019 December having just moved to Bangalore (little did I know of how Covid would change our lives). Initially looked for a decent TDI Polo, but they weren't available brand new due to BS6 norms kicking in and any decent used one I found was atleast 50-55k run in. After considering other options I decided to go with a rev happy Baleno K12.

I knew right when I was buying the car that I wanted to modify it's looks as Balenos are so common I didn't want it to look like just another. I contacted a fiew Maruti service centers for a 2019 RS bumper as a spare, but most denied having stock. Luckily a service center in Yeshwantpur had one in stock and I got my front bumper replaced there.

Covid kicked in and the car wasn't really driven much, as I left it with my family in Bangalore and moved to my home state (Odisha).

Update: 27/01/2022.

The K12 is a happy revving engine but there's just some lag below 2500 rpm. I knew Wolf was the only choice for me as they have remapped a lot of K12s to Stage 1, Stage 1+ and even recent Stage 2 builds.

I contacted Jayant at Engineering Exponent who are the official Wolf Moto remap dealers in Bangalore. I initially wanted the car to do a Stage 2 but I was coming back to Bangalore for a short period of time and due to some unavoidable circumstances had to settle for a Stage 1+.

The whole experience was great. It took about 2-2.5 hours for the whole thing including fresh oil into the car. Special mention goes to Prajwal at Engineering Exponent to not only make the process smooth for me but to also answer any and all technical questions I had.

Post remap:

Remap happened at 4000 kms.

I went into it knowing exactly what to expect. I wasn't expecting any crazy bhp numbers because I knew it's an NA car. I just wanted better drivability and acceleration and boy did the Wolf remap deliver.

Initial impressions are that the car feels way smoother to rev after the remap, always eager to touch the red line. The initial lag below 2500 rpm is gone and the car pulls cleanly from the word go. In the almost 200 kms I drove in Bangalore city since the remap, I noticed improved FE as well. I used to get 15-16 kpl earlier, now I'm getting about 17-18 in moderate driving. Will continue to update this thread with my experience as time goes on.

P.S

I can't wait now to get Wolf's magic done on my 2019 City i-Vtec, only problem being it's in Bhubaneswar so not entirely sure what nearby Wolf dealers have for me.