Alas, .....the death blow.

Jack was the only real dependable authority associated with the UTEC. (no offense too the other evom guys that contributed their fair share of help along the way.)

I'll just keep on using it for what it does. It works pretty good at what it does.

 

Call me a dummy, but I was playing around with the UTECs "launch control" feature; I assume you mean
the launch control settings in the user contrainsts menu...
So how would I set it up for use for flat shifting only, and not for launch control from a standstill ???
I have an '03 without the second clutch switch and "builtin" rev limit that the '05 up has...

 

I think I got 300$ for my utec on ebay

 

Yea i got mine for 200 and love it so far!

about the launch control, when you use the utec maps 1-5, it doesn't use the stock 05 launch control that the evo came with from the factory, it uses the utec's launch control, and when you type in a value for example 6000, that is your standstill launch control, and also your no lift to shift feature, and you choose if you want ignition or injection cut for when you do the no lift to shift, i personally chose ignition cut just because i don't want to stop the flow of fuel, but anyways, when you floor it, and then do the quick shift while flooring it, it will stop the ignition(in my case) and will drop RPM's instead of naturally raising RPM's.....

 

Ok thanks.
BTW - got mine off eBay - like $200 shipped; UTEC, map switch, and MAP sensor. Couldn't pass that up.

 

ok, i take back what i say maybe....because today i tried the launch control for the first time as i got my car running good today, and when i had it on map 1, it went off the stock ecu launch control at 5000, and not off the utec launch control, which i set at 6000, so i believe it had to do with the wires hanging off the map selector because i remember someone tellin me that those were for the launch control, but i don't know where do i connect those two wires to???

 

It depends on how you have it configured.. Open Loop Fueling, the launch control is handled by the UTEC **AFTER** you crossover the Open loop threshold configured.

What I did on my car was disable the OLF since with ECUFlash its no longer necessary.

Configured my launch RPM and base configuration with ECUFLash on my ECU, then set a flat shift RPM (higher than the launch RPM in my case) in the UTEC

I now have the ability to launch at my desired RPM if I chose to, and have a nice high RPM NLTS feature.

It works as I've tested it, however I don't use this feature very often so I don't know how well it works in actual practice.

Don't bother trying to get it to work right if you use OLF as once your TPS crosses 30% or so, it defeats the ECU's standing rev limiter and your revs continue to climb.

 

I had the ecuflash and utec set at the same rev, my car sounded really funny at the staging tree. LOL Like it was farting. So I set the utec up 1k rpms and stock control was working (map 0) but it did make the crowd laugh when I was at the track before I fixed it.
LOL
funny stuff

I'll try changing to CLF and make some maps. Weird thing was I tuned 2 seperate maps on a mustang dyno, no knock, all 0's. Then on the road it was knocking all over the place. I have still yet to figure that one out. It was even showing some knock on 100 octane with a 93 map. WTF??????

 

Worst chunk of change I've ever spent, I would have felt better purchasing a few lbs of crap at least then I would have known what I was getting myself into. Boo hoo we don't have the market cornered so lets throw up our hands. I make sure to warn anyone and everyone I talk to in every car camp to avoid them.

IMO txs died right around the time Phil left.

"coming soon"

. . . suckers.

 

I will never buy another turboXS product, ever. And I don't recommend it to anyone.
I believe in not supporting bad businesses.
It's clear that they will never release an update, if they had any intentions, it would have been about a year and half, two years ago.

 

Hence why I went with the AEM and dumped the utec. Anyone want to buy my utec???????

 

Like I said earlier. I will never encourage anyone to buy a TurboXS product. Even though it works for me, I am in a unique situation where I still want to use the features it has in conjunction with the stock ECU (I switch frequently between the ECU+ and UTEC, the ECU+ has quite a few superior features that make it a much better product, but the UTEC has a few features that I need)

TurboXS had made promises about their UTEC product for the Evo, unfortunately the market was saturated, and the car was not as high production as they had hoped. And they couldn't really sell much of their product.. So discontinue the product, but don't discontinue the support. If the company continued to offer the A+ support they had the first year it was out, people would be using the product because of all the great new features they had promised, and they would have made a good OBD-II legal alternative to a standalone.

FWIW if I didn't have to worry about OBD-II, I'd be running some form of standalone also.

 

We got ripped off! f'n turboxs!!

 

I wouldn't say ripped off, because the product started out really well. But it is offensive to me just to disappear with nothing but vaporware and excuses.

 

I plan on selling mine for whatever I can get for it and switching to ems