We have boxes in stock right now and they are ready to be sold. We at Turbo Performance dont feel that WE have enough time on the product yet to do a full release to ALL customers with that fuel managment system. We will not release a product FULL BORE until it has been tested and run through its paces. I guess other guys feel that the couple of months of testing and mess around fits there desired performance. If you want one let us know. We just need to run over a couple things with you. So you understand what you are getting from us. Nothing to hide.
The bully dog is a powerfull tool in the tuning world. But please when calling dont compare it to the vipec stand alone or any other full stand alone. They are not the same. bully dog fits in between a full stand alone and a piggy back system.
Bully dog has done a good job unlocking the full factory ecu with all its hex files. so anything that is in the stock ecu is there. All the basics have been disected. timing, fuel management. exhaust valve open, closed and steady state in every aspect. There are how ever some mapp and things in the stock ecu that we dont know what it does yet. Its not because we cant figure them out it is because we dont have enough time yet on the hex break. In time all will be there. We have total control over everything so far.
How it works right now is this. We build a map you install it on to the sd card and down load it in to the ecu. now your ecu is reflashed to the new map and it will be reflashed until you do another reflash to it.
IMO here are some of the Challenges that need to be worked on (now these are just my opinons)
Having had great results with the vipec over the last couple years. things that i can see are going to be hard to over come.
I am not totally satisfied with the way to get map changes get into everyones hands. The end user has no way of makeing a change. It has to come back to us.
I dont have a full time guy to dedicate to just reflash a map changing configurations. This eats up alot of time. I know for a fact that there is only 3-4 guys in this whole market that have gone down this road to date. We are one of them. We know how much time it takes to support customers and there needs. So we are up aganist the wall hoping that we can take care of evryones needs.
the other thing is the data logging so that we can make a correct change. I dont feel that every end user is smart enough to give me correct data back.
it doesnt work when someone thinks they are at 60% throttle position and they are really at 45%. i will make the change in the wrong area. making the problem worse, or having no effect on the first problem. My input back to bully dog has been to give the end user 10-15% adjustment on the fly at each rpm level. but this also opens up another bagg of worms. where you in exhaust valve closed map? or open map? these things are not as easy as everyone thinks they are....
the last one is altitude compesation i am not sold yet on the rescaling of mapp sensors and maps to fit a area. because tps, timing, boost level, and rpm need to be taken it consideration for a correct fuel equation. (this is just problably just me right know. In learning a new way to do something.)
hope this answers the few questions that were posted. We can answer any questions you might have when fueling you turbo monster!!!
Im not trying to bash on this just trying to get the thread to more of a question and answer thread.
