sx_turbo
Lifer
i see the point in the plug and play ecu, they keep all the great things about the stock ecu, and 90% have a much more aggressive map.
the problem is no one knows what they were mapped for unless they were already ont the car and most were mapped on road or dyno and just a universal map fitted.
i've heard of people sending there ecu's back to mines to put a map for a different turbo on it, how do mines come up with this map? i highly doubt they just so happen to have a car exactly the same as yours sitting in the car park, it's just a universal map, loaded with different parameters and with huge safety margins so as the car dont blow up, thus not getting the most from your setup.
i have a mate who bought a mani downpipe tongs hybrid, and KSROM from japan, he emailed the seller saying what he said, and the guy from japan said yeah it be fine.
now after fitting it and driving it for 200 miles to learn, he took it to a dyno,
the boost was upped to 1bar, and the ecu showed promise, excellent low down power was made, and excellent top end power, the problem was inbetween,
the map had a massive rich spot that could clearly be seen in the the dyno graph, and on the road you could really feel it, which was really annoying, the timing seemed ok, was detting or anything apparently and was definately much more aggressive.
the only way he could sort this issue was to buy a form of piggy back and get that tuned, which kinda negated the point in the ecu.
was it really worth it £500 for the ecu, plus however much to make it perfect? i would say not.
IF the ecu's could be bought from uk dealers who were able to tune them, similar to the ecutek system or nistune system then these types of ecu's would be perfect as they can be tuned for your requirements
the problem is no one knows what they were mapped for unless they were already ont the car and most were mapped on road or dyno and just a universal map fitted.
i've heard of people sending there ecu's back to mines to put a map for a different turbo on it, how do mines come up with this map? i highly doubt they just so happen to have a car exactly the same as yours sitting in the car park, it's just a universal map, loaded with different parameters and with huge safety margins so as the car dont blow up, thus not getting the most from your setup.
i have a mate who bought a mani downpipe tongs hybrid, and KSROM from japan, he emailed the seller saying what he said, and the guy from japan said yeah it be fine.
now after fitting it and driving it for 200 miles to learn, he took it to a dyno,
the boost was upped to 1bar, and the ecu showed promise, excellent low down power was made, and excellent top end power, the problem was inbetween,
the map had a massive rich spot that could clearly be seen in the the dyno graph, and on the road you could really feel it, which was really annoying, the timing seemed ok, was detting or anything apparently and was definately much more aggressive.
the only way he could sort this issue was to buy a form of piggy back and get that tuned, which kinda negated the point in the ecu.
was it really worth it £500 for the ecu, plus however much to make it perfect? i would say not.
IF the ecu's could be bought from uk dealers who were able to tune them, similar to the ecutek system or nistune system then these types of ecu's would be perfect as they can be tuned for your requirements