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yeah it has all the features but my point has been all along so many other ecu's have exact same features (and more) that take less time to navigate and in my own cars i have had many firmware and trigger issues. So basically why pay more for a product that is going to take you longer to get to point b? in a basic car with basic mods?? all those extra features can be a hinderance.In a car like Hyped6 is talking about i can whole heartedly concur in needing all the extra bells and whistles and the added charge time to the customer to set up the boost vs gear... etc.. we have done similar with M800's and Link G4's. We hope to do some pretty crazy stuff with the new E1280s too but i would never recomend these ecus for a daily driver who has basic mods.

yup like what i have for nismo afms... cut and paste and hey presto. like your saying you could cut and paste the z32 voltage table into the std afm table and it should be fine. in fact you can run any afm provided you have the volt scale, used a few lightning afms in the past on bigger setups.

That wasnt my point, you said it takes no longer tune than other ecu's and used GM reflashing as an example which takes very little time to get perfect due to the complex background algorithms. there is room for all ecu's, everyone has their favorites and i have about 4 i really like and one i cant stand.... at the end of the day it just personal preference... it just turns out many i speak to in the trade and @ seminars share the same sentiments.

that's about 30mins work max... you telling me you can do the above in 30mins on a new engine from scratch..... as for e85 just run the one map and depending on ecu use the wide band input to auto calculate (like gm e38 in later holdens) or a content sender.

will need retune, don't boost it much just to be sure.

this is why most tuners CBF'd with them..... good tunes are possible but you need to spend too much time compared to just about every other ecu out there, it doesnt make good business sense.

yeah but US dyno's generally are the happiest dynos on earth..... i have had two freshly imported mustangs make big power in the states 530+hp and ran on my dyno and were missing 150rwhp.....

we ended up @ 12kg and 6kg to match the sr's handling with 8 and 6.

yeah i send any WOLF enquiry to Rob @ sabbadin, he is the only decent Wolf tuner around i can trust to send people too..

i like the motorsport ones, actually also good ecu's just did a 300rwkw CA with one, had nice timing control... no drift at all was impressed with it.

To OP: Yup, one batch of bad fuel, a missed shift one day.. anything could kill it as its stretched to it limits.

if they struggle with that there is an issue in itself

^^^ exactly we alone have more than a handful making that power on std engines.... one is on the hoist atm with a broken gearbox.. so if you add up all the shops were talking alot of cars making over that hp....

just remember the LINK and VIPEC are the same, the new haltech range is nice too. Both real nice ecu's and the good thing is they dont have too much unessential bullshit like the wolf's.. its like a computer engineer with no day to day tuning experience designed it. The vipec and link software is obviously the same but it is easy to navigate, quick to navigate and isnt bogged down by the unessential.

^^^ fark i would have lost my shit.....

needs boost, im sure godzilla had a reason for lower boost as they are very reputable have you spoken to them about your concerns?

yeah i had a few and was the unwitting guinea pig for the series 6 V4 years ago... i hate them with a passion... yeah the new v500 has all the features but other ecu's do a better job for far less work (link vipec and haltech). I got to the point with the v4 i just turned them away now i turn all Wolfs away as i had issues with incorrect looms etc... just a head f**k. WOLF are the only ECU i wont waste my time over, happy to tune anything else... i just dont touch em on principle now.. Thats my opinion anyway.

so 290 is about 215rwkw and realistically 240ish should be achievable so what comp pistons, HG thickness and was the pfc tuned via knock monitoring or just the handset??

27.5cm backwards

sorry been flat out, will reply asap.

no i have had a few customers install them @ home and then come in for a tune or whatever and ive found the lines crossed so it had pressure but no flow.... this will kill an engine quick as hell. sorry man but i cant think of anything else off the top of my head.

did the owner fit up the oil cooler? was it a new addition?

120 degrees is not ideal but provided the oil was of decent quality it should not be THE contributing cause, track cars often see 120 degrees... not ideal but not the instant engine killer either. A customers oil cooler thermostat stick closed and the oil temp hovered around 150c for an enduro event (300v 15w-50) and on tear down (2 years later) there was minimal evidence of abnormal wear

the ecu tune file and tear down of the engine is the only thing that will tell you what went wrong. On another note i have a good customer with a engine i built for him 8k worth of SR, i get a call from him @ a comp in Tassie saying its running on 3 and its f**ked..... says its pinging so bad (a so called expert @ he track diagnosed it) it closed a plug gap... i explained thats impossible and only something hitting a plug can do that (expert @ track in background can be heard saying crap tune etc etc)... i told him to swap out the plug and see how it runs... i then freak out for 3 days wondering how and why only to find out his new throttle body he installed himself had dropped a butterfly screw... and the engine subsequently ate it... this could have been a classic case of blame tuner first then find facts later Lucky this customer did not get all high and mighty when it did happen and listened to reason and subsequently found the issue himself a few days later, often it is hard to find the reason for failure without a thorough going over of the car. If it is down in comp and breathing then yes it could be pinking or lean (tune related), if it spun a bearing chances are its an unrelated engine failure.

yeah but some bodys "happy" with handling is another nightmare (you obviously have never been in a good handling car). SR vs RB in the handling stake is a no brainer.. the rb just sits far too forward of the front axle centre line to handle anywhere near as good as a SR. We moved the RB26 back and it still wasnt enough to match the sr (cornering g wise) ... you need to come back around 20cms which just aint provided for.