I have been a loyal EcuTek customer for the last two+ years. I have had reflashes from Vishnu, KingPin, and multiple custom tunes from KTR with great results and service from these shops. But alas, after waiting and waiting, I have learned that the $590 new user tuning EcuTek product in fact will only let me switch maps that others have created.

So I am gone. I am placing $800 worth of orders for Street Tuner and an Accessport today. I am not criticizing the technical merits of the EcuTek product. I emphasize that I have been an extremely satisfied customer from a technical standpoint.

But if EcuTek as an organization does not feel that I am capable, as a mere mortal, to tune the car myself or accept the consequences of a bad tune (consequences I am prepared to accept), then it is time for me to find a new tuning solution. Goodbye, EcuTek. Please reduce your market forecasts for 2006 sales by 1 unit.

Street Tuner... here I come!!!!!

Again: I emphasize that I am not bashing anyone's product on technical merits. And any error in my technical understanding of the new EcuTek product, I welcome the correction. And yes, I have spoken with EcuTek directly, I am not relying on hearsay, etc.

Edit: in all fairness, there is one really good reason, from a business plan perspective, for EcuTek to avoid getting into the user tuning business. Support costs are probably not trivial. A customer support infrastructure is not trivial, and requires expense. EcuTek may easily have come to the decision that for their target profitability -- profitability is after all, why we all do what we do for a living -- means they want to stay out of the customer support business. That's fine, I just need a tuning solution that gives me more flexibility. Thanks.

I have been a loyal EcuTek customer for the last two+ years. I have had reflashes from Vishnu, KingPin, and multiple custom tunes from KTR with great results and service from these shops. But alas, after waiting and waiting, I have learned that the $590 new user tuning EcuTek product in fact will only let me switch maps that others have created.

So I am gone. I am placing $800 worth of orders for Street Tuner and an Accessport today. I am not criticizing the technical merits of the EcuTek product. I emphasize that I have been an extremely satisfied customer from a technical standpoint.

But if EcuTek as an organization does not feel that I am capable, as a mere mortal, to tune the car myself or accept the consequences of a bad tune (consequences I am prepared to accept), then it is time for me to find a new tuning solution. Goodbye, EcuTek. Please reduce your market forecasts for 2006 sales by 1 unit.

Street Tuner... here I come!!!!!

Again: I emphasize that I am not bashing anyone's product on technical merits. And any error in my technical understanding of the new EcuTek product, I welcome the correction. And yes, I have spoken with EcuTek directly, I am not relying on hearsay, etc.

You are extremely happy with your tunes from all these ecutek shops but want to tune yourself, so you are buying an ap? :huh: Why not save the coin and get the openecu software if you want to tune. It's free...

I personally don't want to waste my time trying to reinvent the wheel. With ecutek I can gather a library of professional maps tuned to whatever specifications I want. Plus if anything happens I can just blame the tuner. :D

Why not save the coin and get the openecu software if you want to tune. It's free...

I guess you haven't read this then yet, huh? It's understandable cuz you're new... :p

http://forums.nasioc.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1027462

I personally don't want to waste my time trying to reinvent the wheel. With ecutek I can gather a library of professional maps tuned to whatever specifications I want. Plus if anything happens I can just blame the tuner. :D


So... show me where the EcuTek map for a 4EAT running Fujitsubo headers and a slip joint ScoobySport up-pipe running a VF-34 at 24 psi of boost with methanol injection is.

Show me that map. Because there is much less tubing involved in my setup than most, I want to push the turbo as hard as a can. If I can get 26 psi out of it... I'll try it. I have all the instrumentation to attempt to tune it -- not saying I wont blow the motor, I very well might, but it's my creator-given right to try.

And as for Openecu... show me the road tuning software with integrated LM-1 support and injector control. Show me the 1-800 customer support number.

good choice on StreetTuner. It grows more powerful every update. They just added Throttle Duty Cycle mapping for the DBW cars and Boost Low-Speed-Multiplier adjustments for everybody else :banana:

To me you can get more out of ecuteK , i dont think cobb will be happy with certain mods and parts.

I've been using the ecutek over a year now and I think i'm going to switch to the cobb

I like he fact that I can switch between different maps myself, like a race fuel map!!!!

To me you can get more out of ecuteK , i dont think cobb will be happy with certain mods and parts.

Agree as far as accessport... but StreetTuner and the ability to get ProTunes changes things.

i dunno... i think it really again comes down to what you want out of the car. I will freely admit that my tuning experience goes as far as 2 stroke engines used in RC cars, and cannot tune on my own, so although i can still switch to cobb, there isn't much benefit in it for my situation.

Perhaps when i do my engine buildup i will have a need for a pump gas and a water injection map.... but i get the feeling that i will run just one map. I am a bit of a sickler for simplicity really...but that's just me.

I am a bit of a sickler for simplicity really...but that's just me.

Agree... and nothing is more simpler than being able to check and tweak my own tune without having to schedule an appointment and drive to my tuner.

But unfortunately all this is moot... pending additional information on whether or not I blew my motor last week. And I haven't even installed the AP or Street Tuner yet. :( (Read: if it blew, it blew on the EcuTek tune)

I guess you haven't read this then yet, huh? It's understandable cuz you're new... :p

http://forums.nasioc.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1027462

i guess you didnt read he has an '02..

if you bought the delta dash software, you should be able to tune it yourself the same way your tuner can.

while the openecu software is great, it doesnt have the same capabilities yet, but the deltadash does.

if you bought the delta dash software, you should be able to tune it yourself the same way your tuner can.

while the openecu software is great, it doesnt have the same capabilities yet, but the deltadash does.No, DeltaDash has extremely limited capabilities - nowhere near what a real tuner can do with ECUTek's professional tuning software.

if you bought the delta dash software, you should be able to tune it yourself the same way your tuner can.

while the openecu software is great, it doesnt have the same capabilities yet, but the deltadash does.

WRONG

Delta Dash is pretty close to useless for tuning. You can swap boost maps (not edit, but change between A and B) and you can change timing +/- 5 degrees across the entire map (not selectively) and that's (with a few exceptions) is about it.

I think you can also change the idle speed a few hundred rpm, add or pull fuel (across the entire map, not selectively), and add or pull WGDC (across the entire map).

And all the changes you make disappear when you reset the ECU or when you pull the battery.

I think you can also change the idle speed a few hundred rpm, add or pull fuel (across the entire map, not selectively), and add or pull WGDC (across the entire map).

And all the changes you make disappear when you reset the ECU or when you pull the battery.


that's a really nice feature. would be nice on an audi as well :)

I guess you haven't read this then yet, huh? It's understandable cuz you're new... :p

http://forums.nasioc.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1027462

Err, what does that have to do with using the Openecu tools?

No matter which direction you pick, you can count on not being able to switch back and forth at will. If you choose Cobb, you have to stick with it. If you choose Openecu stuff, you have to stick with that.

How that thread should deter anyone from using Openecu stuff more than deter you from Cobb or Ecutek I can't imagine.

Err, what does that have to do with using the Openecu tools?


You misunderstood the quote and comment relation.

He said this... You are extremely happy with your tunes from all these ecutek shops but want to tune yourself, so you are buying an ap? :huh: Why not save the coin and get the openecu software if you want to tune. It's free...

So basically the link was posted by me because it made it sound like canosardines was suggesting to just use openecu tools to change the tune on an "already" EcuTek's ECU... which if it's of a current revision may be "locked".

How's that, is that clearer? ;)