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Originally Posted by nelsmar
Now lets talk hardware. Lets get something straight. I fucking hate the ECUTek way. But this is coming from someone who would have tuned their own car. And is always modifying the car every week and needs to revise again, and again, and again. I would prefer to just run an AEM stand alone or similar and have someone like Toni who has proven to me their experience on a dyno get me a nice running "basemap" that I can then tweak from day to day as I make changes to my car. I am also one to do lots of before & after testing of modifications and like to have control. So looking at that? Sure the OFT would make more sense for someone like me. I would love to be able to tweak my tune my self.
But how about people who are not going to tweak their tune them selves & having the ability to have multiple maps from other tuners I think this is great (such as e85 map and 91 octane). They don't need a laptop to work with it? AWESOME! I think this is great! I personally believe that locking a tune is garbage. Why? Because my car is not stock. It is not going to be stock. My car is not going to run just like my neighbors. Sure if you are taking 2 stock STI's the % of difference when driven side by side is going to be miniscule. So "sharing" a tune you got for your car may benefit your friend. But for me? This is never going to happen. My car is going to need a unique tune and my tune is nearly worthless to everyone else in the world. So locking a tune is worthless for "higher calibre" tuned cars. Vendors do this to protect their tune from being stolen and given away for free. Sure some vendors are trying to hide "trade secrets" to something they have invested a large number of hours resolving. However from what I have seen from a number of tuners mentioned in this thread they have shown the exact opposite. I have seen a few Ecutek tuners offer to help another tuner by sharing what they found in their "locked" tune.
So what am I trying to say? I think the hardware ability of this is better than ECUTek's crappy over priced cable. I think the ability to have your higher calibre car tuned (not a stock car with an intake) then be re-tuned by another tuner is quite nice if you are in a situation when your original tuner is not around, or you just need a minor tweak. I personally really like having this "openness". I am quite confident that Toni would show quite wonderful results on that customers car if he actually tuned it. And as Toni has mentioned many times before, he is more than willing to dyno tune customers cars.
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I don't think I have met you yet but your already on the tab for a free beer/drink on me. You nailed it. I short end your post to mainly the highlights since it was longer and some get upset over length. But you absolutely nailed it.