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Much more than a $1000 worth of work but in the end the effort can and will pay off for him I'm sure.If I had a Legend or NSX (and I do) that had any type of power adder (and it does) and could tune the OEM ECU in real time without the need for any piggy back systems or changes to the factory harnesses and could be undone by a simple flash or chip replacement I would choose that any day. Not all but a good number of people would as well.If you look at the domestic performance market Ford, GM, and Chrysler all have many companies delivering products that reflash the stock ECU with everything from simple plug in devices to complete custom tuning software and have been doing so for years. The reason they do is that there is a larger market and many of the software engineers that right the code for these platforms are busy writing the tuning software at the same time, or it is "borrowed" by an engineer and "leaked" to the tuning company. Many times these tuning companies in a rush to beat there competition release this cracked software without a clue on how to support it or what the effect of changing a given parameter will do. Talk about scary. As a result of a simple low cost tuning solution with little to no products to purchase you are hard pressed to find a drop in stand alone ECU for any of the domestic market cars. In our case with Honda having a much better security department than the other guys we are left with no other option than to replace the OEM ECU or wire in a piggy back. Now maybe given enough time and he certainly has the will we may have another option one that should be far superior and maybe ever cheaper.But like everything else in life sometimes it is nice to just have the option of doing it another way.Keep up the good work Matt.Dave
Much more than a $1000 worth of work but in the end the effort can and will pay off for him I'm sure.
If I had a Legend or NSX (and I do) that had any type of power adder (and it does) and could tune the OEM ECU in real time without the need for any piggy back systems or changes to the factory harnesses and could be undone by a simple flash or chip replacement I would choose that any day. Not all but a good number of people would as well.
If you look at the domestic performance market Ford, GM, and Chrysler all have many companies delivering products that reflash the stock ECU with everything from simple plug in devices to complete custom tuning software and have been doing so for years. The reason they do is that there is a larger market and many of the software engineers that right the code for these platforms are busy writing the tuning software at the same time, or it is "borrowed" by an engineer and "leaked" to the tuning company. Many times these tuning companies in a rush to beat there competition release this cracked software without a clue on how to support it or what the effect of changing a given parameter will do. Talk about scary. As a result of a simple low cost tuning solution with little to no products to purchase you are hard pressed to find a drop in stand alone ECU for any of the domestic market cars. In our case with Honda having a much better security department than the other guys we are left with no other option than to replace the OEM ECU or wire in a piggy back. Now maybe given enough time and he certainly has the will we may have another option one that should be far superior and maybe ever cheaper.
But like everything else in life sometimes it is nice to just have the option of doing it another way.
Keep up the good work Matt.
Dave
