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Location:
Madrid - Spain
Registered:
August 2002
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Re: Tunning an engine
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Fri, 12 March 2004 00:13
 
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I tend to agree with you. I think that it is rediculous that someone can achieve a better state of tune with an aftermarket ecu than a team of design engineers with significant resources behind them could.
I do think however that as soon as you take a particular engine outside of the manufacturers design scope, ie different reliability requirements, operating environment engine components etc, you have compromised the OEM's "optimal" state of tune. The more changes made, the worse it gets.
The biggest problem that the aftermarket faces is to acknowledge that given the OEM's design scope, their state of tune must be very close to optimal.
Now if the user of this vehicle has decided that they would prefer to compromise the vehicle reliability to achieve performance gains, then they should be made aware of that. Likewise if they want significant increases in power, that will come at the expense of reliability and driveability.
Unfortunatly it is very difficult to achieve OEM standards when it comes to all these requirements. Therefore the customer has to accept these compromises or pay the huge developmental costs involved in achieving these standards.
If the customer wants a dyno champion, give him/her that, but be very clear that it comes with some drawbacks.
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