Custom Remaps Excavators and Backhoes

When it comes to heavy plant equipment like excavators and backhoes, efficiency is everything. Over the 1,200+ hours a piece of equipment spends working every year, a 10-15% improvement to torque or power will have a significant impact on both productivity and profitability.

A professional ECU remap allows construction companies or contractors to realise these gains in a cost-efficient manner, as well as fine-tuning other aspects of engine performance like power delivery or fuel efficiency.

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Heavy duty tuning specialists, we develop market-leading ECU remaps for plant and construction equipment. These remaps are written and tested at our UK tuning headquarters in the South West of England, before being distributed via a global network of highly-trained and authorised remapping agents.

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Over the years, our software engineers have developed a comprehensive library of field-proven maps for most makes and models of backhoe and excavator – including Caterpillar,  JCB, Hitachi, Komatsu, Kubota, Mecalac and Hydrema equipment. We also have the ability to write custom remaps for customers or clients with specific requirements.

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Excavator and Backhoe Remapping Explained

Excavator and backhoe engines are generally well-optimised, but they also spend most of their time under heavy load. To ensure that equipment can power through tough jobs efficiently, and use multiple functions without slowing to a crawl, it’s often necessary to fine-tune performance by remapping the engine’s electronic control unit or ECU.

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This is a fairly involved process that calls for a blend of skill and experience, but the fundamentals are relatively straightforward. In simple terms, we make a series of carefully-calibrated adjustments to the values in the database, or map, the ECU uses to make decisions.

Depending on what we are trying to achieve with an excavator or backhoe remap, we might adjust parameters like fuel injection pressure, timing or duration to modulate engine behaviour in a variety of scenarios.

We can also adjust features like torque limiters, or disable unwanted functionality, like the DPF or AdBlue system on an excavator or backhoe that is being exported outside the European Union.

Our remapping process is exacting and methodical. Our in-house team of software engineers draw on over a decade of R&D to accurately model the downstream impact of every adjustment, and we take great pride in our ability to deliver sustainable gains to torque and power that significantly enhance productivity.

When remapping backhoe loaders, we generally focus on increasing power and the low-down torque needed to manoeuvre around sites – and move large loads. With excavators, we take a different approach: optimising maps for the narrow RPM band that their engines tend to work in once they’re in position and the operator is focused on digging.

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We Remap The Majority of Modern Excavators and Backhoes

All modern diesel engines are managed by an electronic control unit (or ECU), which means there’s almost always an opportunity to fine-tune performance and improve the efficiency of an excavator or backhoe.

What's more, many modern backhoes and excavators roll out of the factory with a de-tuned engine, which is to say that manufacturers often load sub-optimal maps onto an ECU to decrease the performance of their equipment.

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Plant equipment manufacturers do this for multiple reasons, including improving reliability in countries with poor infrastructure, producing headline stats that are easier to market, and creating better differentiation between models in a range that shares a lot of the same hardware. For example, the Cat 340 and Cat 350 excavators are both powered by the same C9.3B engine, but have significantly different power outputs (258.3 kW and 308 kW respectively).

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Factory de-tuning leaves a lot of headroom that we can exploit with a carefully-written and carefully-calibrated remap – designed to eke out substantial gains without pushing the limitations of the equipment in question.

<strong>Market-Leading</strong> Plant Remapping

Market-Leading Plant Remapping

In business since 2010, we have established ourselves as the leading developer of effective and reliable plant equipment remaps. We have an extensive library of excavator and backhoe remaps, and a well-developed network of highly-trained agents that enables us to deliver our solution to construction companies across the globe.

If you are interested in remapping your equipment, use our ‘find an agent’ page to locate your nearest AT HD specialist. If you are a plant equipment engineer and you’d like to know more about supplying market-leading HD remaps to an increasingly-eager client base, get in touch directly or visit our ‘become an agent’ page. We are always interested in hearing from suitably-qualified specialists.

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