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Old 04-11-2016, 09:12 PM   #193
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Originally Posted by Yoshoobaroo View Post
This happened in the BMW N54/N55 world too. I ran a Vishnu Procede on my 335i back in the day (Shiv's piggyback). Then Rombinhood showed some work on the forum on open source flashing which through collaboration with Shiv lead to the OFT being developed. When the twins hit the market Vishnu dropped the BMW crowd and left us with unfinished beta maps. I hope this is not what's happening again. They produce good hardware and their tunes are by and large excellent, but their customer service leaves to be desired. As soon as Cobb cracked the BMW ecu, almost everyone jumped onto that ship.

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The N54 engine has been out of production for 5years. We officially stopped Procede piggyback development for the N54 just over 2 years ago when we launch OpenFlash and focused primarily on ECU flashing tools/map development. We still do plenty of N54 tuning. But only through OFT, not the Procede. The Procede has been repurposed for ESC control for GT86 and MX5 applications. For a number of reasons, piggybacks like the Procede are not ideal solutions for modern ECU tuning.
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