Originally Posted by
tabetha
Why would you want three maps, so you can use it on your road car, and use it on your track car, and another track car if you're that lucky, to have a different setting for any reason, why buy 3 ecus to do this when one can do this ?
Any ecu can have the map swapped over when you go between cars anyway, and IIRC the "switchable maps" on the emerald doesnt include things like different sensor settings between the 3, so if they were different cars it would still need to have a new map loaded each time.
The loom doesn't need changing
Yes it does, it will not plug into the emerald, you either have to bastardise it or make another loom, just like you can on ANY aftermarket ECU (in the case of the S8 you can just plug it it on the standard loom though which IS a case of the "loom doesnt need changing")
Why buy a ecu just because of the name paying over the odds for features you don't even want.
Who on this thread has mentioned paying for an ecu for the name?
I buy them for their features and interface which is why I would NEVER buy a shitty emerald, its terrible, have you EVER mapped a car on anything else? Im guessing not and that all of your comments about the emerald are based purely on the fact that you simply dont know any better as you have utterly no experience of other ecu's?
Going from my L6 msd chipped ecu, was like heaven esp at the fuel pumps, I was amazed at the extra off boost power.
I've spoken to lee at length, I don't give a shit what he does.
Although chip knows vastly more than I about this subject, I do no he doesn't know as much as he thinks.
Well if you come across anything I am wrong about then PLEASE correct me as I would love to learn more, even if its about the emerald as despite my hatred of them I still end up keep having friends stupid enough to buy them so still end up mapping them!
Chip as everyone is entitled to thier opinion though, dave and others don't have problems with emerald mapping.
Other than dave, who is of course massively biassed, I cant name a single other mapper who knows what they are doing who would list emerald as their favourite ecu to map TBH!
It wasn't designed for turbo cars where the hell that came from I don't know did they accidentally do the software for it.
It works fine for turbo cars if you alter it over to be MAP based, although weirdly lots of the people mapping it dont do so.
The boost control is 10000000% better than my piece of shit L6 with msd chip, though the GGR chip was much better anyway.
tabetha
sounds like your MSD chip wasnt setup correctly, mine was perfect, who installed yours and set it up?