New Plug-in Ecu Coming

[Swiper the Fox]

So they changed out the AEM for the Vipec now?

Gonzo was raving to me about how good the AEM was. Good testament to the Vipec if they run a faster time. Any ideas what times they've put down?

Why do you think i was in such a rush at pizza the other night...i was busy wiring up the beast above and was only finished on Saturday.

If you have seen or heard it missfiring and poping its head off during a run you would know why the AEM, DIS-4 and STD coils running wasted spark has been ditched.

listen...

and here

The ViPEC runs the car much better and the dyno results on Saturday were outstanding. Due to a driveline issue a launch/shutdown was only done Saturday night resulting in a nice 1.07 60' time.

Id like to thank Gonzo and Mark Jacobsen for involving me in such an awesome project.

Edited April 20, 2009 by Mr SHiRTman

[The Dan]

Why do you think i was in such a rush at pizza the other night...i was busy wiring up the beast above and was only finished on Saturday.

If you have seen or heard it missfiring and poping its head off during a run you would know why the AEM, DIS-4 and STD coils running wasted spark has been ditched.

listen...

and here

The ViPEC runs the car much better and the dyno results on Saturday were outstanding. Due to a driveline issue a launch/shutdown was only done Saturday night resulting in a nice 1.07 60' time.

Id like to thank Gonzo and Mark Jacobsen for involving me in such an awesome project.

holyf**kenshitf**k!!

That's awesome.

That sounds nasty in those clips. I would assume an engine pull down after at least every second run would have been on the cards?

Sounds like ViPEC is going to save them a lot of money - on engines - not drivetrain

[The Dan]

ViPEC - Good for your engine, bad for your drivetrain

[Adriano]

How does the Plug and play go about running map with the multi throttles, does it run tps/map load sensing?

?

[shanef]

Why do you think i was in such a rush at pizza the other night...i was busy wiring up the beast above and was only finished on Saturday.

If you have seen or heard it missfiring and poping its head off during a run you would know why the AEM, DIS-4 and STD coils running wasted spark has been ditched.

listen...

and here

The ViPEC runs the car much better and the dyno results on Saturday were outstanding. Due to a driveline issue a launch/shutdown was only done Saturday night resulting in a nice 1.07 60' time.

Id like to thank Gonzo and Mark Jacobsen for involving me in such an awesome project.

sounds like its still missing in the deep end though...

[CeJay]

Ok my problems starting to drive me a bit nuts now, had the car retuned, for boost control, and other minor things. Tuner advised the missing around 2500 was fixed. This may be the case on the dyno, but the car is still doing it on the road. Is it possible that this is compressor surge or something? Feels like the car intermittently misses around 2500-3000 on mild throttle. apart from that the tune feels good.

[Swiper the Fox]

sounds like its still missing in the deep end though...

both vids are of the old set-up Shane

[shanef]

both vids are of the old set-up Shane

oh right gotcha

[Adriano]

Ok my problems starting to drive me a bit nuts now, had the car retuned, for boost control, and other minor things. Tuner advised the missing around 2500 was fixed. This may be the case on the dyno, but the car is still doing it on the road. Is it possible that this is compressor surge or something? Feels like the car intermittently misses around 2500-3000 on mild throttle. apart from that the tune feels good.

Compressor surge shouldn't cause running issues if its running a map sensor

[9krpm]

If you have seen or heard it missfiring and poping its head off during a run you would know why the AEM, DIS-4 and STD coils running wasted spark has been ditched.

what engine is in that beast?

what brand is the DIS-4?

The AEM DIS is not that great.

[wolverine]

Ok my problems starting to drive me a bit nuts now, had the car retuned, for boost control, and other minor things. Tuner advised the missing around 2500 was fixed. This may be the case on the dyno, but the car is still doing it on the road. Is it possible that this is compressor surge or something? Feels like the car intermittently misses around 2500-3000 on mild throttle. apart from that the tune feels good.

perhaps it is running a little rich on part throttle and when it switches out of closed loop you are getting that slight miss.

[Bullet32]

Why do you think i was in such a rush at pizza the other night...i was busy wiring up the beast above and was only finished on Saturday.

If you have seen or heard it missfiring and poping its head off during a run you would know why the AEM, DIS-4 and STD coils running wasted spark has been ditched.

listen...

and here

The ViPEC runs the car much better and the dyno results on Saturday were outstanding. Due to a driveline issue a launch/shutdown was only done Saturday night resulting in a nice 1.07 60' time.

Id like to thank Gonzo and Mark Jacobsen for involving me in such an awesome project.

So THATS what you were doing in Qld Paul... You have been holding out on me

That Solara is savage!

You always get to play with the best toys.

[Swiper the Fox]

Check out this puppy...

1 x boat

2 x 1615hp big block chev engines

2 x Vi-PEC V88 ECU's

174 MPH !!!...on bloody water....these guys are freaking insane (280km/h for you youngin's)

The chopper is doing 138MPH

Edited July 22, 2009 by DiRTgarage

[Swiper the Fox]

new firmware now available.

Vipec Firmware 4.4.1 (01-08-09)

Firmware Features:-

- Wheel Speed % Slip measurement.

- Ignition ECT and IAT Trims now be configured as 2D or 3D Tables.

- Individual Cylinder Knock Detection.

- Turbo Speed Digital Input option added.

- Exhaust Back Pressure Analog Input option added.

- Crankcase Pressure Analog Input option added.

- Injector Deadtimes can be spanned using a 3D Table.

- CE Light functionality has been improved and additional fault codes added. ·

- Improved digital filtering on analog channels selected to wideband.

- TPS and MAP Delta now span positive and negative.

- Dual MAP limits with ECT or RPM selectable axis control.

- Closed Loop Stepper with the option of selecting Bipolar or Unipolar. For example this can be used to control the Audi/VW centre diff (haldex).

- Improved digital filtering on Analog channels selected to Wideband.

- Auxiliary Fuel Injection on Injector Drives 5 -8. This allows up to 4 more levels of staged injection. This can be used for rotary tertiary injection or on V8 applications having the advantage of allowing all primary injectors to remain fully sequential.

- All Analog Voltage and Temperature Channels now have independent Fault Settings – NOTE: These will need to be initialised or disabled for ALL channels.

- Virtual Auxiliary Outputs 1-3 have been added. Functions like On-board logging, 4D and 5D mapping control can now be switched using these channels.

- More switching options have been added to the Auxiliary GP Output functions. This includes being able to use other auxiliary channels as part of the switching logic.

- Flat Shifting. This now has two cut methods. The original edge triggered timed method or the new level activated method which holds the cut ON while the digital input is held at the selected level.

- RPM rate of change (RPM/s) runtime value has been added as a table axis option.

- New Baud Rate options allowing the ECU to directly interface to an AIM Dash at 19200 Baud.

- The following options have been added to the Auxiliary GP Output function: DI 1 -6 Speed, Knock Level.

- Auxiliary Channels, Digital Inputs and Analog Channels not visible/available in a particular ECU will always have their functions set of OFF. This will prevent problems when downloading PCL files between ECU Models.

- When 6 cylinder Sequential staged Injection is selected the Aux Fuel Channels 7 & 8 will be forced to read “Injection” i.e Injector drives 7 and 8 are used as the staged injectors.

- A second General Purpose Limit function has been added. An example might be - use it to monitor mixtures under boost and if they become undesirably lean limit the engine speed. See the help for more examples on how this can be applied.

- Launch Control has a new limit option (Fuel Only) which provides a smoother launch option than the existing Fuel and Ignition cut.

- Launch Control has had an RPM lockout added to the ignition retard option. This means both engine speed and throttle position must be above their set values before the retard function becomes active.

- Speed Limit can now be controlled using a Digital Input. A Speed Limit switch option has been added to all Digital Input menus.

- Transient Ignition Retard using a 3D Table to help engines that suffer from "snap denotation" .

- Maxda Rx8 Trigger decoding.

- Ford Focus Duratec Trigger decoding and VCT.

- Toyota 2GR-FE Trigger Decoding

- Honda K24 Trigger Decoding.

- EVOX Trigger Decoding and VVTi Control

- VQ30 Trigger Decoding

- Holden V6 Trigger decoding and VVTi control for later models of this engine.

- BWM S54 Trigger decoding and VVTi Control.

- Trigger Decoding for the Renault Clio 3 RS with VVTi and the Clio 2 RS.

- Trigger Decoding for the Honda 15x Jetski

Fixes:

- GP Limit when spanning the table using a Digital Input

- Launch Control Mode 3 intermittent arming fault.

- Ignition Delay. On some Trigger and Ignition mode combinations it was possible to lose the ignition output when the coil firing edge overlapped a trigger event.

- MAP Hard limit now uses only the 2D Table and does not include the "Hard Limit Addition" value which was hidden in this configuration.

************************** Changes Read this ********************************:

- The Dwell Edge has been re-labelled to Spark Edge. There is no adjustment required from the user - its just a label change. For example the Dwell Edge labelled Rising will now say "Spark Edge - Falling".

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Software Changes: -

- More axis options added for tables (Digital Inputs and Cam Targets/Positions)

- Automatic initialisation of table axis to appropriate values when selected.

- ECU Log Downloading from within Vi-PEC Tuning Software

- Set Base Timing window added to assist calibration of ignition timing.

- Block change by selecting a block and just typing the new value.

- New error message handler. Rather than bringing up little message boxes that must be dismissed, messages are now all displayed in the Error Log panel.

- Colour of items in the logger columns and plot can now be changed in the logging setup form.

- Improved data rate for faster response and logging.

- Logger column widths are now adjustable.

- With FW 4.3.7 or newer the ECU is automatically reset after a pcl file download. With FW versions older than that a message is displayed telling the user to reset the ECU after downloading a file.

- Clear Fault Codes option added to ECU Controls menu.

- Help now includes all plug in ECU installation manuals.

- Flash new 3D Plot. Now shows unevenly spaced rows and columns, has new colours, can be clicked on to select a cell and rotated directly with the mouse.

- An improved block value entry form. This allows faster simpler changes to tables including basic math's functions. It has automatic input checking to warn of problems rather than having to deal with "Value out of range" message boxes.

- Put surface graph rotate buttons back in.

- A large list of new engine setup information has been added to the help file.

- Version build information has been added for better tracking of exact Vi-PEC Tuning Software builds.

Fixes:

- Flicker of runtime values in Windows Vista

- Cal tables 1 to 3 column labels did not have correct decimal places.

- Fixed a problem that caused some settings to remain visible when changing between channel functions.

- Fixed row out of bounds warnings that occurred when using Ctrl+ -10t table adjustments.

- Fixed two problems in the custom tabs menu.

- Fixed tables to stop slider bars drawing over tables when using small screen sizes.

- Firmware updater can now work on com ports above COM9 - Fixed a problem where playback of log files did not display markers.

- Removed the "Marker found" message box.

- Runtime plot now defaults to "Show Points" unchecked.

- Fixed a problem where gauges had their tick labels rounded down rather than displaying the correct value.

- Improved saving and loading of runtime configuration.

- Altered the warning that appears when an ECU is disconnected to show "disconnected" rather than "error".

- Fixed a problem where not all tables were allocated properly offline (eg GP PWM).

- Flicker of runtime values in Windows Vista

- Cal tables 1 to 3 column labels did not have correct decimal places.

- Fixed a problem that caused some settings to remain visible when changing between channel functions.

- Fixed row out of bounds warnings that occurred when using Ctrl+ -10t table adjustments.

- Fixed two problems in the custom tabs menu.

- Fixed tables to stop slider bars drawing over tables when using small screen sizes.

- Firmware updater can now work on com ports above COM9

- Fixed a problem where playback of log files did not display markers.

- Removed the "Marker found" message box.

- Runtime plot now defaults to "Show Points" unchecked.

- Fixed a problem where gauges had their tick labels rounded down rather than displaying the correct value.

- Improved saving and loading of runtime configuration.

- Altered the warning that appears when an ECU is disconnected to show "disconnected" rather than "error".

- Fixed a problem where not all tables were allocated properly offline (eg GP PWM).

- Fixed auto detect and connect problem where the feature would turn itself off!

- Fixed a problem where some tables could not have big enough values entered when using the block change feature.

- Fixed when font size was selected in preferences it wasn't applied to all panels.

- Changing between tables by clicking tabs did not put focus onto the tables.

- Fixed a problem preventing the up and down arrows from moving all the way up and down the configuration tree.

- Clicking on menu headings did not bring up the menu if they had no items in them.

- Fixed a problem where font sizes were not changed and remembered.

- Large changes were not working on some GP tables.

- Some new tables were not completely zeroed when they were supposed to be.

[blitzxtr]

Ya sure ya didnt miss anything there Paul LOL

[Swiper the Fox]

Ya sure ya didnt miss anything there Paul LOL

lol....Vi-PEC are contantly working on more and more features to ensure their product is up to date with current technology and some of the enhanced features are added from customer requests. Their product and customer support is second to none.

Edited July 31, 2009 by DiRTgarage

[BoostedBarge]

Impressive list. I know what I'll be doing when I get home next week

I didn't see closed loop boost control mentioned. I thought it was meant to be coming out with this firmware release. Any news?

[bigmikespec]

Alright, update time!

Where is closed loop boost control farkin'

[2gceffy]

sorry if its been mentioned and dont have time to cruise through 37 pages ahaha but is it available for sr20 and if so how much?

looks like its one fine tuned thought-out system

[Swiper the Fox]

new feature added...power graph screen

http://www.vi-pec.com/software/PowerGraphScreen.png

new Vi-PEC program called VPowerGraph. This will give you a power graph much like you get on a dyno. For it to work you need a wideband meter connected to the ECU and knowledge of the maximum injector flow.