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Originally Posted by turtlefeeder
Hey guys planning to Turbocharge change my FRS with Works Stage 2 carb compliant kit in the near future. As some of you may know @ WORKS came up with a carb approved turbo charger kit. Their kit requires a Ecu flash with carb legal tune. However, they can only flash for those who are local and knock off $150 for people who aren't local to get a ecutek license.
Here's the problem I know nothing of ECUTEK aside from it being a flash method for tuning the ECU (LOL ecutek=ecu? Duh anyways...) so I visit ft86speedfactory.com and they have a bunch of Ecutek package which I have no idea which I need or difference in it.
I'm trying to learn more about ecutek for this. Tactrix is also an option so any opinion whether I should go Tactrix or ecutek. Why tractrix? Why ecutek? If ecutek which package? How do I get license if I want to borrow a ecutek dongle? how does license work? |
Their is no licience with tactrix its opensource flashing tool. Tactrix wont lock the ecu either and the tune would be open and editable and ecu reflashable with any flash system. Tactrix cable is about $170 and flash software is free.
With Ecutek you need ecu licience to flash about $300 or so and you need ecutek cable/dongle kit $350 or so, unless you can get to tuner. You ecu will be locked to ecutek and tune will almost certainly be locked.
Some tuners will "hire out" a ecutek cable dongle kit so you can flash your ecutek tune, or you can use someone else's cable dongle kit to flash the tune, you will still need the ecutek ecu licience though