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Originally Posted by shiv@vishnu
Tristan,
Could you tell me what channels you would need in order to be satisfied with tuning via OFT? I can probably have them added by the end of the week. I agree that ecutek is *currently* the only player in the game that can control boost within the factory ecu. I suspect they re enabled the vestigial boost control tables that are functional in the turbo subaru models. And I suspect it is only a matter of time before opensourcers do the same. At the end of the day, no single company can compete with a sizeable group of clever computer programmers doing development for fun. This has been the case in the Evo and WRX markets and will likely be the case in this one as well.
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This.
When you get alot of smart people together doing something that they enjoy doing as a hobby, alot of innovation and progress tends to get made. When a product is only being developed for profit, oftentimes corners get cut and etc.
While I understand that in some cases and/or for some products, there absolutely must be a big profit in order to do the R&D necessary to produce a quality product (especially if it's a risky prospect)... but this is not the case with tuning, since data itself isn't a tangible (physical) product and doesn't require a big capital investment to produce. Basically, tuning is a service not a product. As long as there are enthusiasts out there willing to produce quality work for free, then that's what it will cost. That being said, I'm perfectly content paying a local tuner some cash to provide me with a quality custom tune.
PS: I'm all for the OFT providing incentives for other tuners to use their hardware. This sort of thing is necessary for FI applications using the OFT. I have the OFT now, and would go with another tuning solution once I go FI in a few years if I had to, but I would prefer to be able to stick with the OFT if I could.