ECU Tuning - for road course; not drag
ECU Tuning - for road course; not drag
I'd like to start a friendly technical discussion on tuning the various ECU upgrades for road course use, not drag racing. People please don't start another vendor flame war, I'd like to really learn something to make my decision easier.
I had a car where I bought a turbo kit from a company that mainly did drag racing. The kit worked fine for the 14 second cold runs but it literally fell apart, burned up parts when I used on road circuit for less than 10 mins. The road circuit puts on different stresses and different requirements for tuning than does drag racing.
For road circuits, we don't really care about peak power. We prefer a smooth increase in the entire RPM range to pull us out of the corners. We need smooth power delivery, not big power spikes and wheel spins. We need the car to be reliable for long periods of time, espcially when heat soaked (we don't put dry ice in the intakes). We do not use NOS, and no water injection either.
I noticed that the throttle modulation on the EVO is quite rough. That is, it is not smooth, it is hard to control part throttle to be smooth with power delivery. It seems that if you slightly lift off, you loose all boost. It would be nice to be able to drive and control at part boost throttle. The VW managed to have good part throttle control with the turbo. Maybe this can be improved with ECU tuning?
Anyway, since all I read about is drag racing and 1/4 mile times, which I couldn't give a rat's a$$ about, I was wondering if any of you vendors actually tuned any ECU upgrades for long endurance heat soaked road circuits where different stresses and requirements come into play.
I'd like to purchase something that is tuned to road circuit abuses as opposed to the 12 second 1/4 mile stresses.
Let the games begin....
I had a car where I bought a turbo kit from a company that mainly did drag racing. The kit worked fine for the 14 second cold runs but it literally fell apart, burned up parts when I used on road circuit for less than 10 mins. The road circuit puts on different stresses and different requirements for tuning than does drag racing.
For road circuits, we don't really care about peak power. We prefer a smooth increase in the entire RPM range to pull us out of the corners. We need smooth power delivery, not big power spikes and wheel spins. We need the car to be reliable for long periods of time, espcially when heat soaked (we don't put dry ice in the intakes). We do not use NOS, and no water injection either.
I noticed that the throttle modulation on the EVO is quite rough. That is, it is not smooth, it is hard to control part throttle to be smooth with power delivery. It seems that if you slightly lift off, you loose all boost. It would be nice to be able to drive and control at part boost throttle. The VW managed to have good part throttle control with the turbo. Maybe this can be improved with ECU tuning?
Anyway, since all I read about is drag racing and 1/4 mile times, which I couldn't give a rat's a$$ about, I was wondering if any of you vendors actually tuned any ECU upgrades for long endurance heat soaked road circuits where different stresses and requirements come into play.
I'd like to purchase something that is tuned to road circuit abuses as opposed to the 12 second 1/4 mile stresses.
Let the games begin....
We can accomidate your needs - it would entail our ususal custom tune but with differenet methods to run the car on the dyno
Alternatively we could also bring our gear to the track, datalog your car as you run it and tune it under the actual conditions you run under
Alternatively we could also bring our gear to the track, datalog your car as you run it and tune it under the actual conditions you run under
