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Old 02-19-2010   #11
Andrew7dg
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Re: MegaSquirt (MS) Custom Builds (interest?)

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Originally Posted by slowbubblecar View Post
Do you happen to know if many of the local shops have experience tuning with it?
Around here, no
In other parts of the country, yes

However if the tuner knows how to tune a map based VE table and Spark table (which is also used by other standalone ECUs) the tuner should be able to tune using Tuner Studio. It is a really EASY program to work with. Very quick if you know the hot keys.

I will be glad to bring my car in somewhere so that they would gain experience. I have the program on my laptop and just a run around the block should be enough for the experience and figure out the functions.

Once I figured out how all of this work I learned that ECUs are built pretty much all the same.

It is like a stereo system. There are Inputs/ and there are Outputs
Then all you have to do is just figure out how the car breaths

HOWEVER for the spark tuning, i highly recommend bringing it to a steady state dyno to get the spark dialed in. That really can't be done on the road.
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