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evan · 03-03-2014, 05:30 PM

@vgi.. The reality is that I spent an assload of money (and time!) on Ecutek before BRZedit. Started with Toni. Bought two locked tunes, cable and license. Toni was not very responsive and his tunes were subpar. Switched to John and bought two tunes. John was not very responsive and his tunes were subpar. All the time, my local tuner warning me that e-tunes are not very good and that it is better to dyno tune locally. (This was before Ecutek opened it up for anybody to be able to tune themselves. How nice of them..) Local tuner uses BRZedit and I now know to use the tool that my tuner prefers. That's how I ended up with it. Although I don't have a problem with Ecutek (I was one of the first in my area to buy into it), I'm not going back now. Financially, it makes no sense. If I do change, I'm just going to spend extra and go Motec. @jamesm is not local, otherwise I would challenge him to build a better tune.

On a slightly related note: My experience on this platform, between all the shitty vendors and scam artists has been utter crap. If I knew it was going to be like this, I would have skipped on the platform and bought something better established. I had a lot of fun with my old f-body and none of these issues. To be honest, this will be my last import.

Eat your vegetables..

03-03-2014, 05:30 PM	#40
evan Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2013 Drives: fr-s Location: pdx Posts: 546 Thanks: 396 Thanked 202 Times in 129 Posts Mentioned: 30 Post(s)	@vgi.. The reality is that I spent an assload of money (and time!) on Ecutek before BRZedit. Started with Toni. Bought two locked tunes, cable and license. Toni was not very responsive and his tunes were subpar. Switched to John and bought two tunes. John was not very responsive and his tunes were subpar. All the time, my local tuner warning me that e-tunes are not very good and that it is better to dyno tune locally. (This was before Ecutek opened it up for anybody to be able to tune themselves. How nice of them..) Local tuner uses BRZedit and I now know to use the tool that my tuner prefers. That's how I ended up with it. Although I don't have a problem with Ecutek (I was one of the first in my area to buy into it), I'm not going back now. Financially, it makes no sense. If I do change, I'm just going to spend extra and go Motec. @jamesm is not local, otherwise I would challenge him to build a better tune. On a slightly related note: My experience on this platform, between all the shitty vendors and scam artists has been utter crap. If I knew it was going to be like this, I would have skipped on the platform and bought something better established. I had a lot of fun with my old f-body and none of these issues. To be honest, this will be my last import. Eat your vegetables.. Last edited by evan; 03-03-2014 at 05:45 PM.