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Originally Posted by seven
Very interesting in seeing this.
Coming from the LSx land where you can pick up HPTuners suite and a cable for $450ish and tune yourself... ECUTek seems overpriced to me, costs almost $1000 by the time your done and all you can do then is load a tune, meh.
I can't wait to see how open source comes along for this.
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You nailed it, EcuTek comes off as a "We are amazing no one can do this!" yet it is nothing more than another tuning option with someone controlling the tunes and not sharing with the community then charging around a 1000 for something that should cost around 450-600 depending on options.
HPTuners is open to Ford, GM and Dodge although mainly popular on GM Vehicles. Both the 450 and 600 kits come with 10 credits and credits cost 49.99 each. It takes 2 credits to tune so you get the ability to tune multiple platforms and cars as well as enough tunes out the door from the start to do 5 cars.
You can find information, base maps hell they have a tune repository so you can learn and the software is available for free so you can have a look before buying the cable and licensing it.
To come from that and see EcuTek it just makes me shake my head and wait for someone like this to come forward and provide a solution not centered on taking advantage of its users in such a manor. It may be great for these vehicles but raping your users over the coals and acting like your tunes are so amazing they are worth over 400-600 dollars?
With HP Tuners I can get a Dyno tune for a fully built vehicle be it N/A, Nitrous, Boosted you name it for 350-450 with the dyno price and that's with one of the best tuners in the country. What the hell makes these other tuners who are sending mail order tunes basically worth so much?! Its flat out just taking advantage of the situation.
Frankly the more I read the more I see this is the solution for those of us who want to tune our own vehicles and share. Because of that this will probably be the direction I choose to go for E85 should I continue to get no answers on the Unichip.