Originally Posted by Garage19
£150 for Ecu???
Coil pack conversion £150-250
ALS, launch control £500?
You can spend £500 to £1500 just to get the features you want added to 20 year old kit when you get them thrown in on every modern ecu starting from £350.
I got a my ECU which is capable of Water Injection, Antilag, Air Injectors and Coil Pack for less than you state as the price for ALS alone
These ECU's are still going for pretty much what I paid for it, which in effect means that If I broke the car today I could sell the ECU pretty much for what I paid for it.... thus in effect I loose minimal money if any on it.
However feel free to point out another ECU which I could have brought for the same £350 capable of coil pack, water injection, air injectors, antilag... which NMS, MSD, Turbosystems, Amhed are experienced with and willing to map.... and then point out which ones can still continue to sell for that money on the second hand market.
Before making my choice, I called a few reputable tuners and asked if they mapped 'specific' management systems... the widest choice of tuners simply came from using cossie management
Having a wide choice of experienced people who can map my car is a consideration as having to take it hundreds of miles to get someone to map it as with some of the alternatives is simply not viable for me.
Although I have stated the reasons why I personally selected cossie management and why I still believe it is the wisest choice for myself, nobody has explained to me why it is so bad or not suitable for the job... Other than to state there are newer ECU's which do all these things which was never ever disputed...
The most common complaint about the system appears to be the age which I find ironic as nobody advises RS500 owners to scrap their cars which are around the same age as this ECU and buy an EVO as its newer and can be purchased for less... Wonder why this is