Originally Posted by
Chip
ALL the aftermarket ones are about late 80s or so in terms of sophistication when compared to OE ECU's IMHO
However, much of the more modern stuff that gets done, is of little interest to people who's primary focus is performance.
There are features of top level aftermarket ECU's that cannot be found on OEM too, like 8 separate knock controls with their own sensors as used by F1 engines.
A collegue of mine who has Phd in automotive engineering had a meet with someone from F1 team once which was organised by the university and they were talking about many things scientific, but later also about my collegues project car and the F1 guys asked at some point:
"-wow, this is quite a nice project but how did you fit those 6 knock-sensors to a road car
-I didn't, in fact it has none
-what?"
I don't think any OEM system runs turbocharger rpm monitoring...
Anyway as Chip pointed out - corrections for injector wear and like are hardly useful on engines with lifespan of less then several hundred working hours.