EcuTek SEMA Event Program - Page 15 - Toyota GR86, 86, FR-S and Subaru BRZ Forum & Owners Community

Calum · 11-26-2013, 06:45 PM

Guys, I don't understand why you keep coming back to bash on Ecutek about end user tuning. Thus far, that's not the product they are selling. You wouldn't go to the pet store and bash them for not having motor oil on the shelf. So why does this company get all this negative attention for selling a product that you don't want? There are other products that do what you want, maybe not as well, but why don't you go after them for having a substandard product instead?

I can see stating your concern or making a suggestion, but the frequency of these complaints is ridiculous.

DJCarbine · 11-26-2013, 08:12 PM

Yeah... I think this thread should be deleted and just start over. Lots of bickering and completely pointless thread crapping.

Ecutek finally says they are going to make a presence on the forums, and we come across as unappreciative asshats.

ciro · 11-26-2013, 09:17 PM

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Originally Posted by EcuTek

OK, perhaps we didn’t make that very clear. None of us are sitting around twiddling our thumbs here. We have set ourselves some pretty hard targets to get done by the end of the year and when we said quick that is relative to how long it takes to develop features for the first car. It still takes a few months and we support GT-R, STi/WRX, 370Z, Mazda MX 5, CX 5, MPS, 6 and diesels, Subaru DiT, BRZ/GT-86/FR-S to name but a few and we have suggestions by the hundreds coming into us every day as to what we should do next, extra features here, updates there. So it becomes a commercial decision as to where we apply our limited resources to get maximum effect. We have 3 people working constantly on our GT-86/BRZ/FR-S announcement at the moment so rest assured there is a lot of focus on your community of owners. We are trying to do our best for you.

I wasn't trying to sound like you guys aren't working hard. Just trying to understand why the features for one vehicle that maybe helpful for another vehicle are not being utilized. I realize time and money are always a factor demand is always high for a large variety of things this product could do. It just seems like features that are developed for one should be developed for another. That wouldn't hurt your demand it would improve it.

Im not trying to start a big huge debate. I think your product is very impressive and powerful for using the stock ECU. That is all I wont be commenting in this thread until the full news release is made.

EcuTek · 11-27-2013, 07:34 AM

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Originally Posted by King Tut

Because the functionality is already there, it is in the hands of the EcuTek tuners, it just needs to be granted to the end user as well. I would hope it wouldn't take 3 dedicated employees to make that happen, but I would love to be wrong in this case.

If only it was that simple. All we can say is we are working on something for you guys, it does take time, and when we announce it, we want to be able to make it available quickly afterwards. We don’t want to announce and then have it drag on before we can deliver what we are announcing. We feel that puts your best interests at heart.

post_break · 11-27-2013, 10:25 AM

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Originally Posted by EcuTek

We don’t want to announce and then have it drag on before we can deliver what we are announcing.

Kinda screwed the pooch on that one lol.

King Tut · 11-27-2013, 10:50 AM

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Originally Posted by Calum

I can see stating your concern or making a suggestion, but the frequency of these complaints is ridiculous.

Where have I complained? I already purchased the EcuTek product. I made suggestions as to what I hope the announcement is.

EcuTek · 11-27-2013, 11:02 AM

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Originally Posted by post_break

Kinda screwed the pooch on that one lol.

Wasn’t aware we had announced anything yet!

Gary in NJ · 11-27-2013, 11:06 AM

One could construe this as an announcement...of a pending announcement.

http://us7.campaign-archive2.com/?u=...&id=33e2e5a522

EcuTek · 11-27-2013, 11:58 AM

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Originally Posted by Gary in NJ

One could construe this as an announcement...of a pending announcement.

http://us7.campaign-archive2.com/?u=...&id=33e2e5a522

Exactly! We are now in pending announcement mode of what exactly the exciting thing is...and we are

that we can’t say anything yet. We are

trying to get it ready so as we can make you guys

bgibbsunc · 11-27-2013, 01:27 PM

Ugh wish it was coming this week since FA20club will be in houston dyno tuning a lot of our cars. would be nice to have the new hotness and dyno tune the same day.

Calum · 11-27-2013, 04:56 PM

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Originally Posted by King Tut

Where have I complained? I already purchased the EcuTek product. I made suggestions as to what I hope the announcement is.

The issue comes up a lot, but honestly I was surprised to see you post about it. Sorry for the blanket statement.

pixel67 · 11-27-2013, 11:33 PM

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Originally Posted by EcuTek

The way our platform works means that once we have RaceROM features for one car it is easier [read quicker] to develop them for other cars we support. But the GT-R is turbo charged and a vastly more sophisticated beast [as one forum member quoted!] so we can do more things. In terms of the amount of turbo charged FR-S/GT-86/BRZs around, it’s small at the moment, but once it grows there will be an opportunity to bring things across.

I can see your point. The gtr is definitely a more sophisticated car in stock form, at 4 times the price so it should be. The vast majority of us that are turbocharged are also using ecutek so you are fortunate to have a captive audience, for now. The current licensed feature set is a one size fits all approach where all features are exposed to the master tuner regardless if the end user really has value for them. While I may get blasted for this statement by other forum members, I would gladly pay a higher license cost for advanced functions like boost control. However I have don't have value for features my car will never utilize as an AT car. Not sure if this license structure is feasible, but may be a way to help finance adding features to the base platform.

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CajunFRS · 11-28-2013, 03:09 AM

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Originally Posted by EcuTek

Exactly! We are now in pending announcement mode of what exactly the exciting thing is...and we are

that we can’t say anything yet. We are

trying to get it ready so as we can make you guys

Lol need more emoticons.

I hope this announcement is good.

cuddefred · 11-28-2013, 03:18 AM

but I disagree

There are too many of them

The sooner people stop using them I will consider

and less

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Calum That Guy Join Date: Dec 2011 Drives: 2013 asphalt FRS MT Location: Halifax, Nova Scotia Posts: 4,865 Thanks: 5,058 Thanked 2,868 Times in 1,499 Posts Mentioned: 82 Post(s) Tagged: 1 Thread(s)	Guys, I don't understand why you keep coming back to bash on Ecutek about end user tuning. Thus far, that's not the product they are selling. You wouldn't go to the pet store and bash them for not having motor oil on the shelf. So why does this company get all this negative attention for selling a product that you don't want? There are other products that do what you want, maybe not as well, but why don't you go after them for having a substandard product instead? I can see stating your concern or making a suggestion, but the frequency of these complaints is ridiculous.

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