Laptop+soft instead of ECU

[bensenvill]

Originally Posted by hamill

Why did I read the initial post thinking....this dude's running an OBD2 connection through a laptop.

EDIT: I've had mine hooked up a few times....to someone who doesn't know what it is, I can tell them I can control the AC with it

yes same here, so my apologies to the professor. I also looked into the megasquirt many years ago [actually my friend used it on a homebuilt mini-truck type contraption he built for his mechanical engineering senior design project], so I have light exposure to it... but you've got me rereading up on this. ok, its quite a bit more powerful than I was lead to beleive.

but it boils down to you are entering a world of pain trying to implement the car with a stand alone solution such as that. For one you'll never be able to pass any emissions tests if you implement this.... so that rules out the option for just about all of us on this board. Second, I can easily see dropping a thousand hours or so just to get the motor running in limp mode. 3rd, attempting this and your completely on your own, not too many people are going to be able to assist you on this and I dont imagine my regular tuner is going to be able to assist me.

I could definitely see attempting this for fun, but there is no practical reason or any gain in doing so.

[tour96se]

i have several friends w/megasquirt. in the probe/mx6/mx3/626 forums...they have no tunning support from anyone else so megasquirt is all thats used there w/great results. you can run a full standalone system or piggyback

[cpapashley]

Originally Posted by tour96se

i have several friends w/megasquirt. in the probe/mx6/mx3/626 forums...they have no tunning support from anyone else so megasquirt is all thats used there w/great results. you can run a full standalone system or piggyback

Megasquirt, I spoke with one of the guys who is very active on their forum when he came up to my part of Australia a few months back. Mighty helpful and very knowledgeable. I think you would be surprised how many platforms run this little DIY tuning box.

I have gone with the emanage because our eecv's over in Australia are still short of being supported, and of course not one of the flash tuning systems here is one you can tune yourself, which made it a no brainer as far as getting something I could learn tuning with. No way I want to pay a tuner for something I can learn myself. But I guess I have the time so works out good. Getting someone else to do it is great when you do not have the time yourself.