Re: ECtune
 

maybe i didn't see it. can you please make this Nissan compatable.
there is very little tunning wares for RB series engines.
i would like to see more. even if its a plugin.

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You are a ------- tard. OBD1 Honda code has nothing to do with anything Nissan. Further, fiddling RB ECUs is about as difficult as SR ECUs - until Nissan started encrypting them in the late 90s its a cakewalk of modular datatables that can be swapped around across engine families and years. Anyone with RB money shouldn't be worried about it as there are a bunch of standalones on the market for a grand that will let you take your car most anywhere for tuning.

Re: ECtune
 

Well, eCtune is interesting, to say the very least.

I had a few teething problems which may have been problems with my Thinkpad, which is approaching late middle age as laptops go and it definitely needs the registry cleaned out. Anyway, I could not get datalogs to play back, and if COM ports weren't configured correctly the application likes to crash.

As for how it operates? 15% as difficult as Crome to set up, and depending on how far and where exactly you want to take a tune it is either a lot easier or four times more difficult to use than Crome. There is some pretty advanced ----, it's impressive.

With all of the hidden ignition advance that exists in normal Honduh code, even in Crome, it's amazing how much the engines actually like. I made 344 whp at 11 psi off of 26 degrees of timing on a stock geometry LS/VTEC... which is about what I'd expect off of the parts combo, but the ignition timing the engine liked was interesting, and delineates the difference between what's past and what is to come.

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Wow thats wild. My f22 likes the timing around 21 degrees at 9psi.
I'd think an Lsvtec would want less. So Ecutune shows you a lot more features and ways to manipulate the timing advance?

I know a lot of peole were saying they'd get in situations with crome where they can't retard the timing anymore they'll make changes but it wouldn't actually change anything. Ive never ran into that myself yet though.

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I think it's some combo of settings and scripts. I am always late to update all that sort of thing, in fact the version of Crome I tune with is a six month old beta whose flash screen says it is 1.1.14, hovering over the .exe reveals it to be 1.2.0.24, and I had it a good month before any 1.2.x.x versions were released. I have never had a problem where I couldn't retard timing, and the people who did experience it had it on every/a couple cars in a row. Connect the dots.

Anyway, on the subject of timing, the engine started wanting 1 deg/psi retard by the time we hit 16 psi (with some boost spiking to 18 in the midrange). *shrug* Not much different than how Y8s behave when you feed them more than 180-190 whp worth of airmass... they go from liking timing to wanting none.

Re: ECtune
 

Ever try busting out some jets with gas sloshing down your pants while someone counts (yells) down how few laps are left till you need to be finished? I did that at age 14. I swear the guys I learned from could read plugs before they could read books (sounds like like WI schools suck, but..) I ------- hate carbs, and by that I don't mean candy bars.

I hope eCtune comes out soon. I gave up on Neptune after 12 months of waiting, while a handful of 'stunners' had it for months. So far i've had good luck with crome, and I don't need any crazy crap to deal with. But stuff like gear-based boost control and anti-lag included in the whole package for $99+$175 would be ------- nice. Datalog graphs would be nice too, but something tells my ignorant ass that its somewhere in crome already.

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Eh, there's still a bit of work to be done before it's released... but it already does a hell of a lot more than Crome.

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so us obd-0 guys are going to have to spend even more money to use ectune?? but if its JD approved i think its going to be worth it..

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You guys want a few dyno graphs? I broke my rule of never posting them for Calvin's sake, but I haven't posted them here because I didn't know how it would go over. I'm uncomfortable riding the bandwagon, y0.

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Yeah posts some graphs. Lets see whatcha did ;)

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Riding the bandwagon can be fun and exciting; but it can also be deadly and dangerous.

Post some freaking graphs. Oh, and I wanna play w/ new software too. >:D

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this software sounds completely kickass...makes me want to convert to OBD1...i love my BRE...but this is just..wow..speechless..seems like tuning is going to a completely new level..i want to see this software!!

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They arent that impressive anyways...

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Nope just your average run of the mill 500hp honda.

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It's one of the slower 500 whp Honduhs on the planet, look at how brief the actual powerband is.

http://www.redpepperracing.com/galle...p+at+22-23.jpg


Needs 1000+ more rpms or a fifty shot so it spools sooner. The race transmission that Quaife can't figure out how to assemble has a 4.7 FD, being shorter geared should help with applying the short powerband as well. Still not the best, or easiest to drive combo, IMO.

Oh, and I'm sure leed will approve of the luxurious accommodations provided for the street tuning session. This is for you, Dave. :)

http://www.redpepperracing.com/galle...s+raceseat.jpg

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You know what JD? Thats ------- pre-emptive karma against you for those damn chickin biskit things you left at my house, they stank up the whole kitchen. Yeah.









































:P

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They were Wes' crackers, I swear. ;)

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Yeah but you are the one who wrote my name on them. You suck as a person BTW.

You need to come by the shop tonite, i would def like to check out ECtune, have you tried the boost control function, or launch control yet? How well do they work?

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I'll be at Shadyside tonight with the BRMS car, no can do kemosabe.

No EBC yet, but I've played with the 3 step functions last night. TPS based, you gently rev to the desired launch rpm and then floor the gas and that's your revlimit until VSS>5 mph, then toss some antilag into the mix for fun.

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This sounds bad ass. If it works half as good as the reviews its getting, i would likely pay for it.

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looks interesting

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http://www.redpepperracing.com/galle...screenshot.JPG


It's pretty sweet. You can see where lambda logging dopped out because everything was happening too fast as the turbo spooled and torque came up so quickly, but eCtune still retained the info it logged to plot out an AFR vs RPM vs boost graph. Sorta like tuenaring on a dyno... well, we are, but the Dynocom unit's lambda logging is still fucked to the max because I've been too busy to calibrate the 14point7 JAW unit to it's stupid ------- peculiarities.

Anyway,

8)

600+ whp or bust, kids, should be going down tonight. Wish me luck.

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Hell yeah. Thats exactly the kind of log you need for street tuning. Rust watch the torque curve and see how changes to AF and our timing affect it. If it gets steeper your making power if it drops of your doing the wrong thing.

I really can't wait to get my hands on it.

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Green line is boost, not torque. For this engine and setup it might as well be torque - seriously.

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Ok you were talking about the dyno to so that got me a little crossed up. You could do what I was saying with rpm and o2 though. kind of like how datalogging works in uberdata.

Thats pretty cool though how after 6k that motor is basicaly holding it's peak torque, it looks like all the way past 8k. That thing will pull out some really high trap speeds.

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looks like i will be converting to OBD1 soon...

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Can't believe you were on Honda-Tech in the Forced Induction forum while playing with ECTune!!!! Glad to see it coming along nicely. Oh and upgrade that laptop so you dont have to worry with the errors any more!

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eCtune is a hog. My laptops are marginally faster than JD's, and it's still not fast.
P4m 1.2ghz ("2.0 gig") 512mb RAM XPPro
P4m 1.5ghz ("2.4 gig") 1gig RAM XPPro

The faster one is aiight but just barely. eCtune after 5 minutes of use easily occupies 225Mb of RAM.

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How many processes are running in the background when you first boot your machines?

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I just got rid of nortons on mine and the start up speed doubled. Nortons is worthless anyway.

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anyone have a clue when this is gona come out to the public?

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Calvin made a guess about three weeks ago of about a month and a half. So three weeks from now maybe?

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hate to bring this thread back from the dead, but its the only ectune one I could find by using google search.

Anyway, Im crossing my fingers they make it mac compatable (yea, so I can sip my starbucks while I tune my VW)...

Oh, and does that mean that everyone that purchases a copy of this software must OWN a personal laptop, AND an Ostrich. Yea, thats a bitch.
See, before, on crome.. we could share a laptop, and a wideband between our 2-3 cars... now we all gots to have our own gear, prolly down to the usb cable. (I guess we could buy 2 copies of ectune, and install them both on the same laptop?? ::) )

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Yeah the ostrich thing sucks ass. I bought my burn1 2 months before ostrich came out, I should've waited. So from right now I expect to pay $300-350 to get ECTune going.. :(

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IIRC there are still 5 user versions available for purchase for initial testing. last i read on the eCtune forum Calvin was selling 10 and only 5 were sold

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I should contact Calvin to get an Ectune license. Then I'd just have it sit on my laptop and do absolutely nothing with it except take screen shots of me having it and no one else having it. It'd be pretty awesome. He probably wouldn't send it to me though since I'm too close to Xenocron. ------- Danish faggot ----.

Re: ECtune
 

I love it when honda people bitch about spending a few hundred bucks on tuning equipment/software. Ever see what others have to choose from? Ever price out a power FC, or a motec for a SR20? Crome pro does everything that a power FC alone will cost, and you can buy EVERYTHING to tune with using crome for the cost of the power FC datalogging capabilities alone.

Re: ECtune
 

You are giving Crome Pro WAY too much credit. Program is half assed coding with a pretty GUI.

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It's the truth. I just wish I could use my damn burn1 with ectune.

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:D