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Nope and won't. I defended him for two years as he slowly but surely stopped replying to people and half the threads on here were "where the hell did Shiv go?".
Customer support should not dry up just because you have moved onto the next new thing. How he started https://www.ft86club.com/forums/showthread.php?t=96556 How he ended up https://www.ft86club.com/forums/showthread.php?t=141451 https://www.ft86club.com/forums/showthread.php?t=117046 There are loads more but my point is made.
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But it ends up being a lot more DIY because of the lack of support from the guy who sells it to you. For me, I have other stuff I want to do. So spending a bunch of time datalogging, learning the parameters, messing with the tunes, etc. No thanks. I'd rather get an EcuTek tune, do some datalogging on a dyno, send it back for a revision. And then be done with it.
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I've never had a problem with shivs tunes. Still using his e85 flash
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And there are many accounts of people trying to datalog and get revisions to improve their tune and getting anything from waiting a very long time for a response, to never getting a response.
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Was talking with @tomm.brz who has done all my custom tuning via much data logging back and forth. Shout out since he can also do tunes like steve99. Found some info he had posted a whole back buried in the forums when I went full catless that allows you to lean out AFR to 15.5:1 or so while cruising around on open loop. Helps with fumes in cabin and in general. The short of it, is that you can only do this correctly with ecutek software. He will be able to better explain it than me but the just of what I understand is that there are two tables the ECU uses and only one available via OFT to play with compared to both tables on ecutek. Overall a pretty minor difference, not enough to say you need one more than the other with an NA setup. |
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So keep my K24 swapped BRZ with a Haltech indefinitely, and forever have it registered in a smog exempt area of California, and never get pulled over. Got it.
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shiv has had customer issues since the n54 days of bmws. nothing new here.
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What kind of tuner/flasher comes with the HKS supercharger kit? Hopefully that's unaffected and HKS still exports their S/C kit to the U.S.
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It is nice that you had no problems and as the documentation I presented show there were indeed very few issues early in the 86 game. In 2019 when I was looking to see if tuning was a direction I would go instead of buying new I researched tunes and OFT was one of them. All of the info I could find at that time indicated that they had pretty much dropped all support for the platform. As an added bonus, through the research I did I discovered that this was pretty much the norm for any platform they developed tunes for. They started out hot and heavy then just gradually disappeared. The cry or "Where is Shiv" can be found on almost any platform forum you want to look at. I have never said that there were issues wit their products but simply that their customer service sucks as a product ages. The fact that you as an individual had no issues is greatly outweighed by the masses that did.
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I don’t know about outside California, but I’m sure it will be harder and harder to find products that will ship into California and be sold from California stores. I feel like there will still be ECUTEK for CARB kits, so tuning from there will be possible, but someone will need to switch back to a CARB tune and setup for smog. There should be enough ECUTEKs to tune cars. I don’t know if they will be going after tuners aggressively.
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Oh and this applies to all the US and Canada not just California.
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Is this only for vehicle specific parts and not for generic parts? Like will aftermarket fuel pumps be illegal? People have said that "race" or "off-road" labels on parts will not fly, so does this mean professional motorsports will end, or will they buy parts to a third party warehouse that will verify authenticity before shipping or something elaborate? Will it be like Honda selling K20c1 crate motors only to Honda Raceline members? Will GM stop selling crate engines? I feel like vagaries in the law never end well for those trying to uphold the vague laws in court.
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In Australia the 'Product' is explicitly defined. https://www.awe.gov.au/sites/default...-standards.pdf You cannot ban tuning products for instance, while you might still be in breach of a number of laws for modifying your car without the relevant paperwork, there is no legal device that can disallow sale of anything but the engines themselves. And even then, it can only disallow the sale of new engines - existing or second hand sales of these products are not covered by the law. |
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