tuning in australia

[JiB]

[Fizz]

Originally Posted by Tenac

Hi Guys,

I am interested in getting a FA20club tune soon as I will have aftermarket intake and headerback exhaust. I did an enquiry with them but they dont ship the software and cable to Australia.

Has anyone taken this route? Where did you source the software and cable from?

Thanks in advance.

They don't anymore? Pretty sure they used to sell cables, software & licenses to Oz. Try Visconti then.

[Andy@FA20Club]

that is correct we cannot ship ECUTek to any addresses in Australia. tunes are

[2SeeKU]

Originally Posted by Tenac

Hi Guys,

I am interested in getting a FA20club tune soon as I will have aftermarket intake and headerback exhaust. I did an enquiry with them but they dont ship the software and cable to Australia.

Has anyone taken this route? Where did you source the software and cable from?

Thanks in advance.

cough:

http://www.hopshopgo.com/

[Fizz]

^ Yeah definitely this...noticed that FA20club never said they can't sell it to you....they simply said can't mail to your Australian address. Best that you ring them up directly instead of email.

[Tenac]

Cheers for the info guys. I will see what I can do about sourcing the ECUtek component.

[Wise]

What's the best option for Melbourne guys in regards to tuning?

[mswhong]

Originally Posted by Wise

What's the best option for Melbourne guys in regards to tuning?

Easiest, but definitely the least cost effective way is to go to MRT and buy a cable/licence from them.

Not sure who else apart from them sells EcuTek products.

edit: Actually, given the way that our economy and how our dollar compares to the greenback, I wouldn't be surprised if buying from fa20/drift-office/visconti would be the same price as supposed to going to MRT.

[Fizz]

Cable, license and tune from FA20Club is USD850. Even if you account for express shipping (through a forwarding agent) it is still just around AUD1k. Now i'm not 100% sure how much MRT charges but I'll bet it's about $1300 to $1600....maybe more??

[mswhong]

Originally Posted by Fizz

Cable, license and tune from FA20Club is USD850. Even if you account for express shipping (through a forwarding agent) it is still just around AUD1k. Now i'm not 100% sure how much MRT charges but I'll bet it's about $1300 to $1600....maybe more??

I was guessing at $1000 but I do not know of anyone on this forum who has received a tune from them.

[Fizz]

If I'm not mistaken that price doesn't include cable

[Panman]

Lots of guesses and if I'm not mistaken; has anyone actually either rung or emailed MRT and asked them?

Lot of dough to be throwing around without checking facts.

I have a My-Us account (same as hopshopgo etc) and quite often buy stuff from the states that way.

I've also dealt with Brett before and have nothing but good things to say about MRT. Are they more expensive? Yep.
Are they worth it? That's every individual's call.

My advice if anyone is _seriously_ considering a tune - do your actual research on price etc. rather than just asking everyone on a forum to make a value judgement for you. I've heard good things about FA20 club, I've dealt with MRT - but I'm not considering buying a tune. I'll wait till I get my blower done.

[nix]

I strongly recommend against going through the etuning method with fa20club or Visconti. I had a bad experience sending multiple logs over about a month for fa20club to give up on my car without making any power over stock and then not refunding me. Visconti is terrible at responding in a timely manner and has fallen out of grace here badly. Neither have much history in the car/tuning scene and are basically start ups for this platform. Nothing beats tuning fom scratch on a dyno environment by an experienced tuner!

MRT have a bad rep but they are far from the only ecutek tuning option in AU. Do some research on your local ecutek shops and their reputations in the industry. If all else fails, truck or road trip your car to me and I'll get S&J/Morpowa to tune it!

http://ecutek.com.au/who-to-contact

[nix]

Originally Posted by JP

I'm interested to see how the local EcuTek tuners react if you rock up to get some fine-tuning done on the dyno with your 86 that has a license/email tune from overseas.

I got my license through fa20club and since been tuned by Morpowa, no problems or extra license fees. Tunes are locked though. They can log each others tunes but not edit/fine tune them.

Originally Posted by Ge8rb6x

My 86 arrives at the end of August and I'm thinking about fitting a HKS Super Charger along with the rest of the bits & pieces ( Pipes, Plugs etc ) the only problem I'm having is that I can't find anywhere in Perth that seems able to tune it.

I'm not willing to fit these parts to my car without a proper tune being available to me.

Does anybody know if or where I can tune my car in Perth Western Australia ?

Drop in and have a chat with Tokyo Motorsports.

http://www.tokyomotorsports.com.au/brzft86/