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If those tuners have no prior experience with either, imho it's easier to go with OFT, simply because of help of guys like Steve99, Wayno and others there are LOADS of tuning info in this forum. But then again it will still require to read/learn a lot, and i'm not sure if they will be willing for standard tune price dedicate week or more of rtfm-ing to familiarise thorough enough with platform to be able to tune more effectively then eg. what OTS tunes do, or what you yourself might be able to optimize upon OFT OTS one following guides, for example.

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Originally Posted by tskaohu (Post 2633670)

but who tunes OFT besides you? ive never met a tuner who would tune my OFT when i had it. it was Ecutek or nothing. thats why i switched.

I used to have a OFT for my car and Yes, i did had a tuner here in town will do OFT custom tune.

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Originally Posted by churchx (Post 2634052)

If those tuners have no prior experience with either, imho it's easier to go with OFT, simply because of help of guys like Steve99, Wayno and others there are LOADS of tuning info in this forum.

How does that make sense? The theory and info posted up is applicable to all the tuning platforms. ECUtek is far easier and much nicer to use than Romraider, it's all in one suite plus no having to worry about working around/with cal hacked files.

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Originally Posted by Gopherboy6956 (Post 2633522)

I currently have a 2013 Vortech S/C'd BRZ.
I've had ecutek as my tuning software since I S/C'd it.

Last year, I went to a pro tuner in Minneapolis (Only EcuTek in the state) and had my car protuned above the rich perrin base Vortech tune.

Long story short, bent a rod 2 days later, engine game over.

Since then ( 1 year) i've just been running the standard perrin base vortech tune on a new engine.

I want to tune to my car, but I didn't have any other ecutek tuners close by, and i didn't particularly want to do an e-tune.

So - i had made the decision to go with OFT so i could use a reliable local tuner. Ordered it up, got it, and while grabbing a stock tune from Perrin (pre-OFT installation) I find out that Ecutek sells a $400 upgrade that will let ANYONE tune your car, even you lol.

So - now that I have BOTH OFT (Still unmarried) and ecutek (car still tuned on this), do I:

Keep Ecutek, add the $400 deal and have it tuned on that?
or
Ditch Ecutek altogether and go OFT?

I've heard that Ecutek is a more technically advanced tuning system, with better logging and tools.

Any thoughts would be great.

Thanks!

Ecutek, return/sell OFT. Otherwise you wasted your ecutek license. I suppose you could swap ECUs though to sell it... If you found a buyer

Ecutek for sure.
Here's something to munch on for oft:
https://scontent-sea1-1.xx.fbcdn.net...26&oe=57C03271

engine running bad with lots of codes, but continues driving it?

Even "good" tunes can cause problems with our engines, which were not supposed to have boost lol.

Run rich all day long, but run lean...

also, how many HORRIBLY WRONG installed turbo/supercharger kits are running around out there?

I'm on quite a few facebook groups, and frequently I see "I just installed my kit in the garage, but where does this go (with a picture of a bov, vacuum line or other important hardware)?".

I'm not saying they're all installed wrong, but it is a factor...

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Originally Posted by rixter145 (Post 2635622)

Ecutek for sure.
Here's something to munch on for oft:
https://scontent-sea1-1.xx.fbcdn.net...26&oe=57C03271

To be fair - my Ecutek, Dyno tune at Full Blown Motorsports killed my first engine.

Got tuned, drove home, next day got gas (still 91 and from the same company, just two stations 2 hrs apart) and leaned out and bent a rod.

So that can happen on any tune / platform.