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is there any reason why you couldn't use a fuel control box (boondocker box ect.) with this standalone ecu ? I think this would be the ticket most people are looking for as for as tuning on the hill.
If you wanted to do that, i'd just get a microsquirt, use it to control timing, and then use the stock ECU to control fuel. No reason to pay all that money for someones standalone fuel map when your just going to tweak it via injector signal modifier anyways.
I think the standalone would have some advantages, but not being able to intuitively adjust on the hill is a show stopper for me. If you want to run a stock cutler kit on your machine though, with no other changes, and if you have the same injectors (square, circle, triangle) as whatever they have tested this one on, its probably a pretty nice setup. Change any parameter on the cutler kit, or change the injectors, or anything else, and you run the risk of their map being off and needing to control fuel somehow, or paying someone $150/hr to tune it on a dyno for you which most likley will not translate to conditions up on the hill.
I bought a dyno, tuned my sled all fall with it, I talk to guys like Shain Stanger who say things that do not work on the dyno, and make little engineering sense. I come up with 13 reasons why he's just flat our wrong and how he cant tell my why it works, it just does. Then I get up on the hill, the dyno goes out the window, I spend hours doing what my engineering senses tell me to, then I usually end up narrowing in on something eerily similar to what a guy like Shain said in the first place. (NO, I do not ride a twisted kit)
Not bashing here, think the standalone could be great, but accounting for all tuning with a laptop in a lab just wont cut it. Getting all loaded up, driving to the trailhead, and running my machine for 15 minutes to find that I need to change something without a way to do it quickly, just won't cut it.
Bluetooth my smartphone into the ECU, let me change MAP vs. RPM tables, timing tables, intake temp compensation, coolant temp compensation, etc.. I'll learn how to be a pro engine tuner and probably end up with a good running sled after a ton of down time and more time staring at my phone that where i'm going.
Give me a simple crude way to tune fuel / timing quickly and graphically, like Attitude and to lesser extend boondocker in order to keep everything in check while I ride, priceless. Fantastic. When I put my water air IC on i'll compensate for it on the fly. Maybe in the summer i'll hook the dyno up and try and capture everything in the ECU maps, but in the winter, I just want to change things on me sled, and ride.