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Originally Posted by D-VO
So are you gonna tell us how you did it? (Here's the part where you say it was tuned with closed source programming)
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it was tuned with closed source programming..but fwiw, imho, as a guy who really likes driving, the changes made by tuning are worth the coin, I cant speak for the smaller vendors, but the
master tuners DO know what they are doing from my conversations with ecutek, my advice is go Perrin or go Visconti, both masters in their area of expertise, there is no chance either is a 2nd best shop.
both guys seem to gave mad street props and really for under a grand, there isnt a better way to spend your money, besides adding a drop in filter, its a joy over OE. Heck, what perrin did to my accelerator pedal alone is worth tuning alone, power aside. raising idle, intake and exhaust timing changes, hot map switching, rev limited launches will open source do all that?
adding a intake, exhuast anything else is futile without a tune. total waste, if you ask me. I cant see holding my breath for open source to happen, it hasnt and I dont want to tune it myself at home without a dyno. silly.
Then again, I have flashed my ecu a few dozen times as a tester, as have a bunch of other guys to get us to a place where we actually have safe, reliable, tunes that are well worth the money from either vendor, this enhances the factory setup, stuff like valet mode, blip shift, the ability to datalog, its all kudos, if you want to unlock and enjoy the cars potential
its clearly dialed back in every way in its retail garb
trying to get what ecutek developed for free is as likely as you building a racecar from the ground up, its diminishing returns. Mervin and crew at ecutek have our car, they went and bought it for business, use, to make it better
tough to beat that in open source land
and so ecutek have made a patron outta me, having shipped my ecu to them in UK and worked thru the teething pains for this platform, I am a firm believer that the platform is sound, the powertain is solid enough that if you want to play, it feels safe to tune this thing.
