So, this post intention is to share as many opinions as possible. I own a 15 STi currently in the process of hitting 600+whp, rotated turbo, closed deck and build heads, the whole 9 yards. Originally the car supposed to be tuned with ECUtek but it turns out they also moved with greenspeed recently like Cobb did. Now the shop is looking for available options for tuning. I know the best solution is going standalone ECU (Haltech, Motec (Cream of the Crop), Emtron, Link G4X, etc. But we're talking putting extra 3k-7k+ on top of the kilometric amount of $$$ invested on the build already. It sucks A$$ big time, because even tuners and shop owners are looking of different options to solve this bulls#!t this M-f#ckers from EPA are doing to car enthusiasts (street or racing).
I spoke with one of the shop owners where my car is getting build and tuned, and asked him about Open-Source tuning, and apparently they did at some point until some dumbass transferred his tune to his buddy's car like it's was going to work the same way, and he blew his engine up, pretty much this caused the shop to stopped going that route, and it makes sense because they won't take the blame for someone's stupidity.
I think I have seen someone's comment on a youtube video saying he was able to tune his car using a Cobb AP, and his car is making around 800 to 900whp.
Unless he has all the emissions parts installed but can't tell. In my case, I'll be running IAG billets TGV delete, EGR delete, Air Pump delete, Catless downpipe ETS rotated kit although I still got the OEM parts, the price people are putting to run the OEM parts when building their cars to use it with the AP, probably as much as getting a stand-alone, so if you want to use Cobb AP you'll be unable to use your TGVs delete and other racing component, worst part you have to sell all of them and get all the emissions components + that's like 2k-4k+ range and installation cost, depending year and model and of course the shop charging rates, unless you can get it done yourself.
Feel free and share your thoughts regarding this situation,
Hopefully, we can get better solutions and options for all this big BS going.
I spoke with one of the shop owners where my car is getting build and tuned, and asked him about Open-Source tuning, and apparently they did at some point until some dumbass transferred his tune to his buddy's car like it's was going to work the same way, and he blew his engine up, pretty much this caused the shop to stopped going that route, and it makes sense because they won't take the blame for someone's stupidity.
I think I have seen someone's comment on a youtube video saying he was able to tune his car using a Cobb AP, and his car is making around 800 to 900whp.
Unless he has all the emissions parts installed but can't tell. In my case, I'll be running IAG billets TGV delete, EGR delete, Air Pump delete, Catless downpipe ETS rotated kit although I still got the OEM parts, the price people are putting to run the OEM parts when building their cars to use it with the AP, probably as much as getting a stand-alone, so if you want to use Cobb AP you'll be unable to use your TGVs delete and other racing component, worst part you have to sell all of them and get all the emissions components + that's like 2k-4k+ range and installation cost, depending year and model and of course the shop charging rates, unless you can get it done yourself.
Feel free and share your thoughts regarding this situation,
Hopefully, we can get better solutions and options for all this big BS going.
