Yes, but...........

Not bagging on the Dimsport tool at all, but it comes down to the tuner and the tools they have to tune the ECU. The Dimsport tool is a great key to unlock the door, but you really have to know what you are doing once there.

This is partially why things are taking longer than normal. The maps available in the Dimsport tool are not enough for a real tune in my opinion. There litterally hundereds of maps in an ECU and with the maps exposed with the Dimsport tools (about 5) its no wonder why some tuners are able to tune the ECU consistently. One boost map doens't cut it.

Yup, we have done nothing ECU wise that lives up to the hype. But things will change and you will see why it took so long.

Regarding the other items, give me a break, you really have no idea. I am not going into the downpipe CEL issues, or the other things you mentioned. You can start a thread and we can answer them there. With all those things you have mentioned, we have hundereds of satisfied customers with those mentioend products and plenty of customers that we have taken care of if they got a part that was trimmed to bad or what not. I am done here. There was no need to toss that in there.

I fully understand how it works, i fully understand there are many maps in the Eprom, but unless you have spent a year doing nothing but decoding it, i know that you are not able to tune all the maps. I am not saying you dont know how to tune cars at all, but i do know that you battle with consistent boost(in all gears), and being able to make the same power on both old and new R56's. The new R56's don't get as much boost or power. We found this with the Unichip long ago. This has to do with the ECU mapping for the Wastegate Duty cycle maps. Because some of the tunes on the new cars are lower than the old i know that you are not exploring too far past the basic maps they unlock. But that is not a cut on you at all, Its just an observation.

Overall being able to tune fuel (which you can), tune full throttle timing (which can), being able to adjust the boost target map for some gears( which you can) you can make a very fun car, and great seat of pants difference.

Looking at what people are saying about your tunes, if these customers didn't have a boost gauge, and got thier car after you tuned it, i too would super stoked! The increase we can get from the Dimsport tool are very good, but still leave alot to be desired.

Don't think that i am trying to say you can't tune a car, because in the Mini world you have more time tuning Minis that anyone, including us.

Fine, the intake, while YOU think that there were all these issues, we have only had 4 ever, out of hundereds, that failed at the spot weld. Guess what, we replaced them. If you are refering to the back of the box where we changed it, we did this to make installation easier. Our original designed worked great on our car as well and many many others. We found that something changed, the motors on some cars moved more and some hit the sound generator, so we fixed it with a plug to ditch the sound generator. Then moved to changing the box to clear the sound generator altogether. What is wrong with that?? Is this not making something better to work on more peoples cars?? The silicone hoses was a nightmare for us as we made it, it worked, then got trimmed incorrectly and really fouled up that the hoses fit. This has also been corrected. I am not going into the downpipe issue, as this will be addressed in an other thread. I am done with answering to your constant pokes, and over exaggerated opinions about how we do business.

Umm, we are answering customer questions proposed on this thread, we didn't start it. Your right we are talking about something that doesn't exist. But we have to keep people interested in what we are doing. If we mentioned nothing ever until it was ready, that looses customers that other wise may have waited for our part. Also not mentioning anything, gives customers that we are doing nothing about it, and also gives customers the idea we are doing nothing new in the Mini world.

We have this fine balance of letting customers know something is coming, but doing it just early enough that when customers are getting restless, BAM we come out with it. But on this product, its taken so long that it didn't really work out the way we wanted.

What i can say is that when our product is out, it will be what customers want and it will be what tuners wants. We do feel this will bring a whole new level of tuning, and tuners to the Mini world. Because the "tuning" aspect of these cars have pretty much compared to other cars, out there, we feel this aspect is really untapped. The Euro tuning world is full of all these secrets about how a car is tuned, and how the ECU's work, and all that. But we are going to change the way people think of ECU tuning.

 

i just ordered the CAI and I for one can't wait for this tune!!

 

i can't wait either! i have all bolt-ons u make for my engine except the BOV and Intake (i have helix 13's bov and DDMWorks Race Intake instead just for personal choice) but i am not even touching my car's power until this tune you guys have coming is here... i don't think i'd need anything more than what that tune will give me...

 

jeff!!!....interested in the upcoming info

 

Has there been any results/testing yet as to what sort of torque and HP we might expect from this tune? Throw us a bone!

 

good info Jeff... tks..

 

Yes Jeff it has been months since we have heard from you. Good info.

 

Thanks for the update

 

Also waiting for a tune after being happy with your unichip for 25k+ miles.

 

any update? i'm eager to get this tune!!!

 

TRUST ME as soon as we have an update it will show up on the board! Nada just yet...

 

Very good write up Jeff. By going through the code is the way to do it, not just finding maps visually by 2D and 3D patterns using an emulator. By going through code you can see when each boost map is being used by what condition flags it sets in RAM to use that particular boost map. Using the emulator is good way to test what you have found going through the code more quickly. Very good work Jeff and I am sure you guys product will change the way of Euro ECU tuning.

 

So where's your product?

 

Any up dates?

 

Has there ever been any talk of an ECU upgrade for the MC?

 

I'm sure Jan could tune it and get some more power out of it - just not as big a jump as with a turbo car.

 

Where can I find him?

 

Well they say no new is good news, right??
NOT in this case, which is a bummer. We do not have any new news at the moment. I really wish i could say more, but there is progression for sure.

To recap, we have tuned cars, but the basic mapping just doesn't cut it. Which is part of why its taking so long. As we have said before, WHEN its out, it will be the ECU tool to have!

 

Christmas? next summer ?

 

Jeff, I only live a few miles from you guys so if you are interested in final testing of your ECU on my JCW (other than your shop car) let me know.

Cheers

 

Next Christmas or Next Summer more like.

 

Thanks negative Nancy! I seriously seriously doubt it will be next summer/Xmas

 

Holy crap that's a good looking car.

 

before next summer ?

 

We sure hope so!! If we had our way it would be done now!