Chip for stock ECU!

onur · Post by **onur** » Mon Dec 15, 2008 10:57 pm

I got the Stage 1 ECU from Revtronix, Mike was also nice enough to even put it on my car.

We went around the block, and the difference is noticable.

I will throw my car on the dyno and do some back to back pulls and post them here for you guys.

I'll also hook up AFR and Boost so I can post those up as well.

Have been running the ECU for about a week now, and no issues or whatsoever.

Stay tuned!

ericem · Post by **ericem** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 1:21 am

Notice any better fuel economy?

subaru_styles · Post by **subaru_styles** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 3:47 am

itching to try the stageX and do some open source..any word on when it's coming out

onur · Post by **onur** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 6:14 am

yeah I've been realizing something about my fuel economy.

I've been flooring it way more now.

I got the math sorted out.

it's about a liter per minute. haha.

DON'T EVEN ASK

oh yeah and, I've driven a lot of WRX and STIs. I think the way the car is, it's definately faster than a stock wrx or even a lightly tuned one.
(dyno plots coming shortly) give me couple of days, need to get rid of some of the cars in the shop.

Onur

Tommio RS · Post by **Tommio RS** » Wed Dec 17, 2008 4:21 am

Dam! faster than a stock wrx! I like that! I have driven tons of wrx/sti as well, that will be cool to try out for my self one day!

PhilSine · Post by **PhilSine** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 9:36 am

Why do I keep getting dropped from the subscription?

Anyways...

Still waiting for stage X

ScottyS · Post by **ScottyS** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 11:04 pm

Question: does this chip remove the "learning" ability of the ECU, i.e. major changes in altitude, temp conditions, etc?

TurboBeater · Post by **TurboBeater** » Tue Dec 23, 2008 6:57 am

Hey Onur, any news on the dyno numbers yet?

The chips keep all the factory functions, nothing is disabled. There's no reason to turn off the adjustments.

Got the engine out tonight, going to put it on the stand tomorrow and start the tear-down. I'm pretty frozen now. Even with the heater on, snow is not melting in the garage!

kimokalihi · Post by **kimokalihi** » Tue Dec 23, 2008 11:59 am

You have snow in your garage!?

onur · Post by **onur** » Wed Dec 24, 2008 11:50 pm

TurboBeater wrote:Hey Onur, any news on the dyno numbers yet?

we still have a car occupying the dyno. I'll post them up as soon as I have them. Hoping to do it during the holidays.

bmxkelowna · Post by **bmxkelowna** » Thu Dec 25, 2008 1:46 am

onur its logan from kelowna with the purple tleg.
glad to hear that the chip is working good for you! Excited to see the dyno numbers.

Ps how is you tranny holding up?

onur · Post by **onur** » Sun Dec 28, 2008 12:32 am

bmxkelowna wrote:onur its logan from kelowna with the purple tleg.
glad to hear that the chip is working good for you! Excited to see the dyno numbers.

Ps how is you tranny holding up?

hey logan... finally something to make our cars a little faster. we are stuck with a big project on the dyno and the car is finally working so I'm afraid of touching it

i really can't wait to put it on there.

tranny is so far so good. been holding up good on snow

snow report so far: broken wheel, ball joint, shaft and also got it stuck in a snow bank only once hahah.

BXSS · Post by **BXSS** » Wed Dec 31, 2008 2:53 pm

Got an update from Revtronix & Mike says the user programable chips are not too far off!

On the fly tuning, datalogging, wideband O2 sensor, & methanol injection controlling are some of the possible features with these chipsl!!!!

n2x4 · Post by **n2x4** » Wed Dec 31, 2008 3:18 pm

Count me in!

I still want to play with launch control and antilag.....

skid542 · Post by **skid542** » Wed Dec 31, 2008 5:04 pm

I'm assuming the programmable chip will be on par with the pricing we've seen so far. Obviously it will be more to account for the additional time that has gone into the R&D.

But I can say with pretty damn good certaintity I will be in, particularly if it can do the meth. inj. controll as well.

This will be simply incredible!!!!

Please keep us posted.

BXSS · Post by **BXSS** » Wed Dec 31, 2008 8:04 pm

I think they are aiming for a price-point in the $350 range for the programmable chips which is NICE, but not set in stone.
I just e-mailed about a possible group-buy, but will have to wait for Mike's response on a go/no-go on that.

They have also completed the MAP decoding of a EJ20G Z4 260PS stock ECU that I actually asked Mike to have loaded on my programmable chip as a base MAP.
He plans on creating a forum where MAPs can be shared between users.

I'm being a real pain in the ass right now with the 1000 questions & e-mails I sent to Revtronix, but they have responded in a professional manner to all of my silly questions.

skid542 · Post by **skid542** » Wed Dec 31, 2008 11:45 pm

$350 for a programmable chip - very nice.

I'm glad to hear that you've had as much communication with Revtronix as you have. From the reports of others on the BBS and yours, it really sounds like this new to us company has their act together.

Do keep us posted and know that I'm very interested in the group buy.

BXSS · Post by **BXSS** » Thu Jan 01, 2009 10:52 pm

I just asked them like 1000 questions & saw that they responded to every one.

kbeefy · Post by **kbeefy** » Thu Jan 01, 2009 11:45 pm

BXSS wrote:I just asked them like 1000 questions & saw that they responded to every one.

So, your gonna share the answers right? So we won't have to ask 1000 more times.

I'm up for a group buy on a programable chip if it is available before I get bored and change cars again.

BXSS · Post by **BXSS** » Mon Jan 05, 2009 2:07 pm

Just looked @ my e-mail & Mike said a group buy sounds like a good Idea + A base map on the programmable chip is possible (I'd think these would be either one of the ready to go ej22t stages or the Z4 EJ20G MAP loaded onto a programmable ej22t chip).

998 of my 1000 questions were about getting EJ20G Maps on a SS Chip.
The remaining 2 answers were posted above!

skid542 · Post by **skid542** » Mon Jan 05, 2009 2:33 pm

Will the programmable chip still work with the subaru select monitor, or in my case the awesome graphical Vgr3 monitor?

SLODRIVE · Post by **SLODRIVE** » Mon Jan 05, 2009 5:53 pm

I've been watching this thread for a while, and it just keeps getting better. I honestly never thought I'd see anything like this being developed for our old-school Legacies. Sooooooo cool!

Hopefully the programmable chip will be out by the time I get my motor together, if not I'll wait!

Grayguy · Post by **Grayguy** » Tue Jan 06, 2009 1:50 am

I am very interested in this product! I have a Link ecu in my 98' and it'd be great to get a lot of the same capabilities for this price. Just Let us know when they're ready for a group buy, and I'll be all over it!

TurboBeater · Post by **TurboBeater** » Tue Jan 06, 2009 9:01 am

Hey guys, haven't posted in a while but I ended up selling my Legacy to Revtronix. Just too much work for me as I already had a few projects on the go.

It seems like they want to go ahead with the user-tunable chip first because it's tough to find test vehicles locally with the exact mods that people want. What I can say is it will be USB-based and will allow editing the maps while the engine is running.

The Select monitor will still work, but you probably won't use it when you can datalog at USB speeds over 100x faster! I found the select monitor often freezes up at full throttle when you log more than 1 parameter. Don't know if anyone else noticed the same issue.

skid542 · Post by **skid542** » Tue Jan 06, 2009 3:43 pm

Sorry to hear you gave up the Leggy but glad it went to a good home.

My desire for the select monitor port to still work is because of my Vrg3 designed real-time graphical display. I can't record but I can do real-time monitoring of all the ECU parameters in the car and would like to keep that ability.

Sounds though like that won't be a problem and this chip is heading to where it needs to be

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