Hi guys,
there seems to be lots of confusion over the plugin Link and Vi-pec Nissan ecu's. They are made by the same company-true. Are they the same? No they are very different on the Nissan plugin board. The Vi-pec has a 4 bar inbuilt map sensor. The Vi-pec has an ignition output channel for each cylinder, the Link runs wasted spark. The Vi-pec has built in individual cylinder knock control. The Link needs an external knock unit and then can only retard 2 cylinders at once due to the wasted spark. The Vi-pec has more outputs than the Link. The Vi-pec comes with a high speed air temp sensor. The tuning software on the Vi-pec has one very important feature called the MIXTURE MAP table which makes tuning on the track or road very easy which the Link does not. This works by setting your a/f targets in the open loop table, then setting the fuel numbers so the engine runs richer/safer than you want to end up with, drive the car around on the track, road or run up on the dyno. Go to the mixture map page and the fuel sites that the engine has been into will come up on the page telling you what your target a/f ratio is, your actual a/f ratio, how many times it has looked at the a/f ratio. For example at 5000 rpm and 1.5 bar boost your target may be 12/1 (it could be anything the tuner wants the target to be you just put it in the target table - 11/1-13/1 whatever ) so say the actual comes up as 10.5/1 all you do is double click on the box and it will change the number in the main fuel table to suit the target 12/1. This is really useful when tuning high horsepower cars on the dyno where holding 2 bar of boost at 7500 rpm for very long is really hard on everything. If I am wrong on anything written here please tell me. These are the reason why the Vi-pec is more expensive than the Link. Cheers, Grant.