Tuning

[oofoofoo]

Just wondering, do most established tune shops have the commander controllers - ie if i dont want to do any playing around myself, can i just get away with buying the Power FC?

[Guest RedLineGTR]

they usally do or they use one out of the packet if needed...depends on the shop ask the place where u want to get it tuned by and see what they say about it

[cyco]

I asked my local dyno tuner the other day about this actually, they didn't have one on hand, however the owner used to have one as they had a power fc in their GTR they've since sold - Murphy's Law I suppose.

[skyline]

oofoofoo

Tilbrooks and Morpower have the hand controlers plus maybe RPM as well.They will tune your car and you wont have to worry about messing with the settings. to my way of thinking its pretty much a waste of time having one unless you know exactly what your doing as you can do some serious damage in very little time!!!Plus there is the saving of approx$750 that the controller costs.

Regards

SKYLINE...

[cyco]

Yes, but a pain having to take it to be tuned each time you want to increase boost (ie. before a track day), I'd prefer to be able control boost/fuel etc at the press of a button.

[oofoofoo]

?? each time you want to increase boost? i will shortly be installing my EBC, can someone confirm that you dont need re-tune every time you change from low to high???

[SLY33]

its certainly not a waste of time having one! Have you sen what can be displayed on it? It can show up to 8 different engine stats at once, eliminating need for extra gauges. eg digital water temp, knock level, intake temp, injector duty cycle etc etc... of course you dont need to see all those things, but i love the digital water temp and air intake temp -also you can see your speed, so if you only have the std 180kmh speedo, you can see readings higher than that.

You can easily play with things such as idle speed and rev limit, so for peace of mind if someone else has to drive, set the limiter to 4grand or something then stash the controller!

above all else, they look cool, green backlight, stuck to the dash

[SLY33]

you dont need a retune everytime you change from low to high.

My understanding is you get it tuned to the highest boost you would run, so therefore anything lower than that, the engine will only run possibly a bit richer, and be further away from detonation.

[SLY33]

oofoofoo i got my unit and controller second hand for less than the price of a new unit on its own, maybe look at sourcing a second hand one.

[oofoofoo]

yeah i plan on getting a second hand PFC, but dont think i'll bother with the controller - can get later if i really feel like playing with things.