@@CJ2X yup. Our south OC weather is amazing but outside of this county, it’s getting crazy. Been going to the DFW quite often and they’ve got a nice evo group, but that weather is 115 to humidity, to hail, to freeze and then crazy winds.
I appreciate your content. You seem very matter of fact and no BS when it comes to information sharing and calling it like it is. Big up yourself; you got a subscriber all the way in Barbados. We have a pretty decent budding evo community here but parts (mainly 7/8/9) are difficult to come by and shipping is insane, however, we keep doing our thing. Always good to have content to share with the guys and gals here in the evo community. Keep it coming
I appreciate the feedback bro. I’ve heard about parts being hard to get down there.. On the positive side, your car will be one of a kind. That’s the stuff I think about.
@@CJ2X Its flex, a ton of people who are tuned by the guy who tuned my car run the same setup. Can run anything from cali 91-e85. Never did the pedal dance and car runs on any fuel mix.
Standalone to me regardless if you are built, bolt ons etc is 1. A safety measure (like you said 1 unit that controls/shows the data you need and has built/set safety precautions) 2. Optimized for your setup and not a generic flash or something along those lines 3. Option to expand features (cruise control, anti lag, boost by gear etc) Ofcourse it all depends on the budget you have etc, but I think a decent haltech or link will pay itself back when 1 day it WILL catch the error and shuts the car off and saves your engine. While a simple piggyback or equivalent will keep running untill it is to late.
It is clear that a standalone unit is better than the stock one, but with all the cons it has, price and finding a good tuner that makes it work well, I prefer to spend that money on something else. There have also been updates to the stock unit's software that allow you to do more than the originally did. But, if you have money, a standalone is a good recommendation
These days there is stock ECU that has more features than the most of standalone units... And its much faster. But still ECUs like Haltech, Motec are the top ones.
