Electrical Tuning my own ECU?

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Mar 19, 2010 | 01:09 PM

ncoop23

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Tuning my own ECU?

I am contemplating getting a 03 MINI S and I was wondering if I could tune my own ECU without getting a MOTEC ECU or something to that tune. I would want to pop a wide band in and tune away. Is this doable? I would want to change the fuel tables possibly timing.

Thanks in advance.

Mar 19, 2010 | 01:47 PM

checkmate2006

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Nope only way is to do a standalone like you mentioned.

Mar 19, 2010 | 01:48 PM

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... or buy DimSport, which is what most of the MINI tuners use.

$$$$$

Mar 19, 2010 | 02:14 PM

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The car already has a DINAN tune on it, could I modify this? How is it that others can tune the cars but I can not?

Mar 19, 2010 | 03:18 PM

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The problem is that the software is rather complicated for this ECU. Because of this it costs a fortune for software that can do it unlike the openECU type stuff. The only way that you can modify it is to take it to a shop that has software that can do it (aka DimSport). Everyone here is in the same boat...