Standalone ECU's - What have you got?!

Autronic everytime.

We tune many Autronics, Motecs, Vipecs and Haltechs mainly on the Jap cars. I like the Autronics and Vipecs only because I"m quite familiar with them but the other guys opt for the Motec, quite a range in prices of course.
With the Euro's you can do a lot more with the factory ECU's these days so unless your doing something unique its often worth sticking with the factory ECU.

I've got a DTA S60 pro in my car. DTAfast S 60 PRO ECU

It's good for a mid level ecu, particularly in the way it interfaces to my dash and data logger.

Local tuners that are familiar with the system are hard to find.

If I did it again and I had a lot more money, I'd go Motec.

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Originally Posted by Notso Swift

There is a world of difference between the premium ECU's and a megasquirt, (or a Haltec, EMS, Link et al)
It is not just about the features, but the precision of control. I could tune to 1 rpm and 1kpa and 0.1 degree, but more important is the interpolation and the speed of response, and the fact it actually hits the numbers that have been inputted.

My current build is with a MoTeC M1 series, it runs direct injection, only 2 aftermarkets in the world (MoTeC and Pectel/Cosworth) can do that right (Haltec will say they can but ask Camilleri in the 3MPS from the Proddie championship... BOOM) and swings BOTH cams independently of each other

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Originally Posted by Notso Swift

BTW the Megasquirt is a great product!
Please don't think I am saying it isn't, it is just at a different level, 99% there for 50% (or less) of the price and 200% of what most people need

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If I had the coin and I was building a super car MoTeC would be the go for sure!

MS3x is definitely a good ECU for the money. The software and the options it has makes it super easy for everything I need it to do thats for sure!

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Originally Posted by parso_rex

We tune many Autronics, Motecs, Vipecs and Haltechs mainly on the Jap cars. I like the Autronics and Vipecs only because I"m quite familiar with them but the other guys opt for the Motec, quite a range in prices of course.
With the Euro's you can do a lot more with the factory ECU's these days so unless your doing something unique its often worth sticking with the factory ECU.

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Whats your favourite?

Stock ECU's from ME7.5 up are fantastic, but when you go from N/A to turbo it's not ideal for that application.

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Originally Posted by Peter Jones

I've got a DTA S60 pro in my car. DTAfast S 60 PRO ECU

It's good for a mid level ecu, particularly in the way it interfaces to my dash and data logger.

Local tuners that are familiar with the system are hard to find.

If I did it again and I had a lot more money, I'd go Motec.

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Can I ask what sort of cost the DTA S60 is Pete? have you had a crack at any of the tuning?

The S60 was $1650 with a set of plugs.

I made all the looms from scratch myself and all of the initial configuration.

I can tune it my self but because it's a race car it's not practical to tune while driving .

Tuning is pretty easy, because it has an Lambda sensor you can get the tune roughly right and then get it to generate a correction map.

After you've done that you can just run it closed loop.

For track use though I'd still tune on the dyno.

The S60 will work with all the stock sensors.

I've got mine running sequential ignition and injection working off the internal 60-2 VR pickup and an Audi V8 cam position sensor.

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Originally Posted by Peter Jones

The S60 was $1650 with a set of plugs.

I made all the looms from scratch myself and all of the initial configuration.

I can tune it my self but because it's a race car it's not practical to tune while driving .

Tuning is pretty easy, because it has an Lambda sensor you can get the tune roughly right and then get it to generate a correction map.

After you've done that you can just run it closed loop.

For track use though I'd still tune on the dyno.

The S60 will work with all the stock sensors.

I've got mine running sequential ignition and injection working off the internal 60-2 VR pickup and an Audi V8 cam position sensor.

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Basically identical to the MS3X setup I have! :)

Definitely looking forward to getting it on a dyno