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Originally Posted by bakerr6
Hmm I was unaware of that. I thought every ECU had to have a license in oredr to have ECUtek tunes applied to the car. This makes ECUtek a lot more affordable. One question though, if you have to take your car in for warranty work, what do you do? I'm not trying to be an A hole or anything of this matter, I'm just wondering if you can send it back in to FT-86speedfactory and have them return it to stock, ship it back, then ship it back out to them to have them retune it.
This wouldn't be a bad option though if you have a master tuner close to your house if they do offer this.
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No offense taken man, I know you (and many many others) are just exploring options.
Yeah, unless you go to a mod-friendly dealer you're SOL.
However Drift-Factory (which is local to me) does tuning... And more importantly the dealer I deal with (specifically the service adviser) is mod-friendly. So I personally won't have issues, others might not be so lucky, but I understand it's the nature of the business of modifying a car (hence why I asked about the dealer first, sought out a local tuner, etc) - Hopefully others do their due diligence before buying also.
But yeah, $225 keeps it cheap for sure... it does have its limitations like you said.
In a perfect world, something like HPTuners for GM vehicles would exist for this car... You buy a cable and software for $600ish and it comes with so many "credits" to license that cable you have to ECUs (usually its 2 credits per ECU unless its a super new motor) and you can tune 2-3 cars off the bat right from the factory sensors/ECU.
The closest solution to this right now is open source stuff in development. ECUtek allows you to do it as well but its almost double the price.
A slap-dash way of doing it, is getting an ECUTek tune for the basics for $225 (honestly you could probably have them just turn off the rear O2 and apply the idle fix and that's call, and the dealer might never know), and then using the UNICHIP kit for $450 to tune it.