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Originally Posted by steve99
Major difference between brz\86 and evo or wrx is that those cars sre factory turbo. So the factory ecu fimware caters for turbo whereas brz\85 is na so the factory ecu firmware has no turbo control in it.
The brz\86 platform has only been arround a few years but unfortunatly tgier were quire a few factory updated roms.
Also as its fairly new not many poeple have come along and developed the sxtra code for boost flex map witch.
One guy ztan has done overboost cut speed density and flex but only on one rom, ie not developed as a patch that can be appled to all the different roms.
This type of work takes hundreds of hours of development by people who already have skills in tuning and ecu code disassembly and code writing c, not somethingyou pick up overnight.
Theirs not many people arroind that are prepared to give hundreds of hours of thier time for free :-)
Ecuflash\tactrix works same for Mitsubishi subaru or whatever. Its a interdace rhat allows access to ecu and allows read\write of ecu rom area.
Definitions simply allow a human readable form of the tables in ecu.
Extra features need to be coded by someone as does logging and even the definitions.
Any extra features sre not provided by ecuflash or tactrix but by generous people who donated their time and effort for free and shared the results of thoer labour
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Ya makes sense. I was using ecuflash on my first evo 8 back in 2005-2006. At that point they had only been around for a few years, though they just had basic tables it was very much bare bones. All the extras started to show up around 2007-2008. I'm pretty impatient, I get the whole time is money argument, and i want to get the ball rolling on this.
So my main questions are:
-Who are the main people, person or entity that can develop this for us?
-Can they give us a price they are willing to accept to make our platform on par with the features and usability seen on the mitsu platform or ecutek?
-Though our ecu doesn't come with factory boost options, ecutek proves that it doesn't need to come with factory boost to incorporate those options.
-What sort of timeline can we expect for this price?
-Has any "Donate Here" area or page been set up for this development?
-Can we set up a donation/go fund me type of thing for this?
A community that is ok paying $2000 for a rocket bunny kit* and $2000 for a mail tuning service** should be able to raise the money for a part-time/full time software engineer to develop a functional user friendly free tuning software compatible with the tactrix cable and ecuflash software.
* Estimate includes kit, installation and paint.
** Estimate includes cable, license, flexfuel kit, raceROM, ecu connect, electronic boost controller, 4 bar MAP sensor, and installation.