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Originally Posted by trevorovert
I think instead of complaining about the length of time it takes, it may be wiser to accept the length of time the OFT takes to tune and adjust pricing to your customers properly.
I don't think the time is going to change. The bottleneck is surely in the hardware. And I don't see any reason for a change in hardware from shiv. There really is no reason. The majority of people use OFT for the OTS tunes, or remote tunes from shiv.
I think it's great you're trying to support OF community, but telling shiv he needs to come up with a faster way to flash and then complaining when he doesn't return your calls is unnecessary. Like I said, I'm almost positive the bottleneck in write time is in the OFT device it self, and we will likely not see a change in that. It's not what it's sold for.
Shiv wants to design OTS maps, and have then open for anyone that buys OFT to use. That is the goal.
If you are not looking for OTS maps, then maybe ecutek is a better choice for your customers. Plus, at the price, it isn't too much different.
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I legitimately tried to contact him about it in private to ask if this was something he planned on improving. I legitimately asked in public if he had plans to improve it. He has avoided answering. Its a shame that I am attempting to support the "open" community. I have yet to lock a single ecutek tune for any car. Nor do I care to. I am trying not to post information that would look negatively on shiv's product and simply trying to ask if there is any chance there will be an update to support faster flash time as I am pretty sure I remembered him commenting on it when the product first came out.
And the simple fact is a number of locals purchased OFT and I have been recommending it for people with stock intakes. Some of those people are wanting changes done, or are wanting to do upgrades and have asked me to tune their cars on OFT. The two main concerns were datalogging issues & flash time. I would hate to tell people that they have to sell their product and switch to ecutek and sound like a fanboy when I am simply trying to support all platforms. I would prefer to privately ask shiv if he had any plans to improve this in hopes that it would work.
The reality is I was quite excited that he extended data logging and added from what I saw was the majority of what I was looking for to save me time. I would be more than happy to explain in full detail why I am hoping for faster flash time but then everyone would probably just say I am vendor bashing when in fact I am trying to support this product.
There are a number of individuals that can vouch that I recommend OFT and have been tuning with it and that I have genuinely just had a lot of frustration, and am hoping to see improvements.