Cobb Accessport / Products, update fr Ian @ Cobb

[EvoXDD]

I was sponsored by cobb in Plano on my Evo and still talk to them. I inquired about sponsorship on brz and was told they would not pursue anything with the brz/frs

[xjohnx]

Originally Posted by EvoXDD

I was sponsored by cobb in Plano on my Evo and still talk to them. I inquired about sponsorship on brz and was told they would not pursue anything with the brz/frs

Not pursue anything sponsorship wise? or parts wise?

[Nazarite]

So what's with all this mess if they aren't planning ANYTHING???

[ducks]

Originally Posted by Nazarite

So what's with all this mess if they aren't planning ANYTHING???

click it and you'll see their shift knob and some other parts. no mention of AP. you got my hopes up for a second.

[blu_]

Originally Posted by Ranatsu

The benefit of the Accessport was the Off The Shelf base maps.. We will use turbo Subaru's as an example. Stage 1 reflash consisted of a stock car with up to an air filter and a catback typically. Stage 2 consisted of a full turbo back. They also had alternate revisions for the Cobb intake on the Stg 2 cars. Some other random things as well.

The big difference between NA and FI tunes is the bang for your buck power gains. This leads to the problem that not everyone will fork over the money when it doesn't seem like they are gaining the same as someone with a turboed car. Not everyone understands the differences of NA and FI and how the car will react from simply tuning it. So customer 1 might see the benefit of tuning his NA car for $800, where as customer 2 might not see the benefits because of the meagor gains.

I am in no way saying I don't want to tune my car. I'm just saying that not everyone will see it as a worthwhile investment. Going by this you have to look at the fact that Cobb will have to invest loads of money into cracking the ECU and then hope they can get all of that investment back. Its the same game ECUTek is playing, but seeing as they are the only company offering any real solution. They have a huge oppurtunity to get their investment back.

Considering how many hundereds of thousands of these cars they are planning on making I still don't get it. I would buy one for all nice user friendly monitoring utilities alone. The 10hp the stage 1 tune might give me is just an added bonus. Also, the ability to install/uninstall the flash easily on your own makes it totally worth the $500-$600 I assume they would try to get from it.... price should be less than that of an STI/WRX solution. Their MS3 was significantly cheaper if I recall.

[ERZperformance]

Hopefully in a few months, the Cobb Acessport will be available for the FR-S/BRZ.

[xjohnx]

Originally Posted by ERZperformance

Hopefully in a few months, the Cobb Acessport will be available for the FR-S/BRZ.

is this a guess? or a hint?

[Propaganda]

Aside from monitoring and a small bump in hp (like the other tunes), one thing that would be more attractive to me to go with cobb (provided they do anything for this car) opposed to others, is the anti theft tune. Seems like it could be useful. My car gets eyed left and right, and I do a lot of traveling. Knowing it couldn't physically be driven away would put my mind at ease some.

[Visconti]

Originally Posted by Propaganda

Aside from monitoring and a small bump in hp (like the other tunes), one thing that would be more attractive to me to go with cobb (provided they do anything for this car) opposed to others, is the anti theft tune. Seems like it could be useful. My car gets eyed left and right, and I do a lot of traveling. Knowing it couldn't physically be driven away would put my mind at ease some.

EcuTek has that already...

[Propaganda]

Originally Posted by Visconti

EcuTek has that already...

Ah ha..... didn't know that. It's on my list now

[Visconti]

Originally Posted by Propaganda

Ah ha..... didn't know that. It's on my list now

If you have anymore requests or ideas please please suggest/ request in the ecutek thread so I can get the info to ecutek.

They aim to please

[EvoXDD]

Originally Posted by xjohnx

Not pursue anything sponsorship wise? or parts wise?

Not to pursue anything. They are selling parts that already fit on other cars like the shift knobs and exhaust mounts.

[cruzinbill]

At this point, they have lost and are losing a lot of customers to the higher priced ecutek. If they did at this point decide to start working on a tuner, by the time they had it out ecutek will be even more proven and with better options to help justify the higher price, I see the same thing happening with the greddy turbo kit tho too.

Silly cobb could have had an easy 30-50 customers already under their belt, now they may get the scraps down the road if they are lucky.

[|-Goku-|]

Meh, I'll still wait for Cobb over Ecutek.