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Re: Turbo Tweak GN ECU
« Reply #60 on: July 16 2018, 03:28:58 PM »
What was the demise/deal with that thing?  Also too complicated for the masses?

To expensive.  It only worked with existing, working alky systems.
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Re: Turbo Tweak GN ECU
« Reply #61 on: July 16 2018, 05:23:57 PM »
It was pretty complicated to wire.  And it had a lot of operating modes/options.  The biggest one was it was hard to wire in.  I had caspers make me a little ECU extender that worked pretty well. 

I do think they made another run this year
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Re: Turbo Tweak GN ECU
« Reply #62 on: July 16 2018, 11:43:17 PM »
Got some time today to clean up the install and take a little drive. Also spent some time on the phone with Eric about using the EGR wire for the fuel pressure signal. Had to design a gauge, calibrate the signal and wah-lah, logging fuel pressure.


He and Bob truly designed this thing with a lot of thought. Although the ECU has a 4 bar MAP used for its calculations, your existing MAP you wired up to work your alky controller still works. No mods.


Oh yeah, scanmaster 2.2 still works and you can go old school and connect to the ALDL wire. Have to do a little mod and you can use a scanmaster G connected to the ALDL.


Used the auto tune feature while cruising at 55. Auto updates the VE table. 


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Re: Turbo Tweak GN ECU
« Reply #63 on: July 17 2018, 08:26:22 AM »
I always found it strange that FAST advertises auto tune in their ads, as do other companies, yet it does not seem to be available on the ones sold to Buick owners.

If Eric/Bob can sell you chips that you can plug in and run extremely well with, without changing a single parameter, then you should be able to load the exact same information into an ecu and have it run well from the get go.

If Holley can sell you a system that you dial in your specifics before you crank the car and then drive off while it self-learns, then surely, FAST could do the same thing...EXCEPT, tuners would have a greatly reduced business.  And, once the mystique has been removed from the process, tuners will have no one to blame, except themselves, when they cause an engine to blow by tweaking it too far on the dyno and it will not be able to hold up under real world conditions.  Very few of these guys ever admit to being at fault.



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Re: Turbo Tweak GN ECU
« Reply #64 on: July 17 2018, 08:41:36 AM »
If the Buick crowd figured out the auto tune it would seriously cut into the business model of those "tuners". They aren't doing that.
Sounds like this one will be the go to in no time. Everyone will have the base tune and be all over the "cool guy" I have an aftermarket computer .

Jason is way ahead now. Mid tens on the horizon and some high nines in the back of his mind.
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Re: Turbo Tweak GN ECU
« Reply #65 on: July 17 2018, 04:55:59 PM »
If the Buick crowd figured out the auto tune it would seriously cut into the business model of those "tuners". They aren't doing that.
Sounds like this one will be the go to in no time. Everyone will have the base tune and be all over the "cool guy" I have an aftermarket computer .

Jason is way ahead now. Mid tens on the horizon and some high nines in the back of his mind.

As someone who sells the Turbotweak ECM (and Ihadav8 members can contact me for special..."promotions" for the cost on this ECU)

I am really excited to see how spot-on Eric's tunes are, and how easy it seems for people to learn.

For those who have recently purchased this ECU, how did you go about learning the Tunerstudio program? I have a local customer who is thinking of getting one of these, but I have never used Tunerstudio (other than play around with the program on my laptop, not hooked up to any ECU or vehicle) and I am looking for somewhere/someone who can teach me, or just show me WHERE to go in order to learn the Ins and Outs of the program.

I have the drive, the desire, and the motivation to learn Tunerstudio. My problem is that I have looked far and wide and have not found anything that can teach me how to use this program, and therefore I am stuck in this purgatory of inability to learn Tunerstudio!

Any help..ANY help..would be INCREDIBLY appreciated!!

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Re: Turbo Tweak GN ECU
« Reply #66 on: July 17 2018, 05:14:23 PM »
I would have to say, at this point Jason is the guy to talk to.
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Re: Turbo Tweak GN ECU
« Reply #67 on: July 17 2018, 05:18:16 PM »
Tunerstudio is pretty nice. Download the software, and they have some sample projects you can look at. If you’ve used any other tuning software you’ll be able to find your way around.

Jason, is it doing boost control with the stock solenoid? Planning on using it to control your alky?
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Re: Turbo Tweak GN ECU
« Reply #68 on: July 17 2018, 05:25:53 PM »
Tyler, check out Andy whittle's YouTube channel.


https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6UMj0PxBbbj_N8S-aD6M-A


Tunerstudio is pretty nice. Download the software, and they have some sample projects you can look at. If you’ve used any other tuning software you’ll be able to find your way around.

Jason, is it doing boost control with the stock solenoid? Planning on using it to control your alky?
I haven't messed with boost control yet. Still doing it with the RJC manual boost controller. I have plans to use the ECU for the alky control but haven't got that far yet
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Re: Turbo Tweak GN ECU
« Reply #69 on: July 18 2018, 07:22:13 AM »
Bison has already dragged over 700 RWHP with this ECU.
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Re: Turbo Tweak GN ECU
« Reply #70 on: July 18 2018, 02:03:19 PM »
I always found it strange that FAST advertises auto tune in their ads, as do other companies, yet it does not seem to be available on the ones sold to Buick owners.

If Eric/Bob can sell you chips that you can plug in and run extremely well with, without changing a single parameter, then you should be able to load the exact same information into an ecu and have it run well from the get go.

If Holley can sell you a system that you dial in your specifics before you crank the car and then drive off while it self-learns, then surely, FAST could do the same thing...EXCEPT, tuners would have a greatly reduced business.  And, once the mystique has been removed from the process, tuners will have no one to blame, except themselves, when they cause an engine to blow by tweaking it too far on the dyno and it will not be able to hold up under real world conditions.  Very few of these guys ever admit to being at fault.
I've been preaching open-source tuning for years - it is good to educate the masses.  And yes, pro tunas are never responsible; leaving 5-15% on the table is fine at today's power-levels.  Some of the shitty LS tuners out there should be drawn and quartered for the deception, misrepresentat ion, and theft they do.
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Re: Turbo Tweak GN ECU
« Reply #71 on: July 18 2018, 03:07:40 PM »
I’ve seen some pretty neat stuff. A fairly well known shop was known for just raping the pe tables and sending them on their way. Others lock their pcm and force you to pay if you want the lock off.
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Re: Turbo Tweak GN ECU
« Reply #72 on: July 18 2018, 06:10:34 PM »
Lock up the pcm and get something busted in their end. Sounds like blackmail to me. I can't imagine that shop would last very long. But people are pretty stupid and I guess have lots of money to throw around.
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Re: Turbo Tweak GN ECU
« Reply #73 on: July 19 2018, 08:27:57 AM »
I’ve seen some pretty neat stuff. A fairly well known shop was known for just raping the pe tables and sending them on their way. Others lock their pcm and force you to pay if you want the lock off.
OEM's do it too.
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