Simon @ SECS...ECU here

Spiky Laptop has landed and is primed for mapping

Karl Norris...Base map LOADED

Mark Shead....Motec air/fuel meter INSTALLED

Just sorting out wiring,putting amal pipes on,but first a cuppa before the ECU goes live

 

What power you hopin for phil?

 

Stage 1 .

 

LMAO

 

Well.....i got enuff fuel to see 650bhp from injectors...a fuel pump that can supply to 550bhp...a turbo that can see 460 plus bhp...BUT hi compression so 450 is the max i am gonna see...BUT garanteed a minimum at the boost i am using of 430bhp..BUT with the spike i am using hpoing to see 450 ft lb torque..add anti lag...a very fast road car...LOL

 

Good luck with it - just take it one step at a time mate, you'll be fine.

 

frequent cups of tea and a pause to admire your work are the key to a good diy job

 

hope his laptop is 98
it wont work on xp immy

 

there's ways around that brom

 

what doesnt work on xp?

 

With BD10's ????? Me dont think so........

 

Good Luck Phil

 

how tell me mate before i go buy a old laptop for mine

 

Is the program dos based ?

 

yep

 

make up a floppy disk that is bootable and put the mapping software on that floppy disk then insert the disk, turn on the laptop, et voila... mapping software appears

i can make you one if you want, i've got version 1.4D of the mapping software, so if youve got a newer version you'll have to mail me that newer version first

should only take me about 2minutes to knock you up a disk n post it out

 

Brommy....i know this hence WIN98 installed

Doug with the boost spike from THIS turbo and the high compression dont be so sure me laddo

 

only one problem there my laptop dont have floppy disc drive its got a dvd writer and zip drive what ever that is

i spend £2000 on a laptop and use it for going on the net

 

How old is an S8 ecu ?

Dos applications can easily be setup to run in windows xp.

 

morpheos, i beleive it wont sork in XP due to the way NT based apps access hardware and you can never give anything 100% priority

just guessing mind...

brom, i could probably knock up a bootable CD for you in that case if you like...

 

OK Phil, best of luck - I hope that I am wrong on this one..............IMO any figure above 420 ft/LBS will be a result

 

i will swap you comuter knowlage for mechanical

 

I take it the software is connected to the ecu or reader by the serial port then.

Some versions of XP will work with serial hardware attatched in a dos window, some sadly will not.

If the secs is a new bit of kit, how come the software is made for DOS ?

 

with a lote of fiddling you could get it to work using a .pif file

 

Bosch Man,

really interested in knowing how easy this ecu is to self map as i was seriously thinking about going down the same road
A colleague of mine has told me he would show me how easy it all is(works at dunton), however, i would like to hear straight from a mapping virgins mouth!!!

I may contact SECS for a demo as well

keep me informed please

Pugo

 

pugo, mapping is fucking hard,,,, you can never see the shitty laptop screens

been playing with mine this morning,,, i think a copper seen me parked at traffic lights with the laptop on my lap

 

only because we haven't tried!!!!!

dude, turn the brightness up

Pugo

 

morpheous, at 1st i thought dos based software was a SHIT idea...

then you realise that youre trying to do these adjustments at over 100mph in the car and its FUCKING hard to use a mouse!

the software is BRILLIANTLY easy to use, and works very well as a dos based system!

however they are releasing a graphical windws version for those people who want to look cool when they map

 

wrong

 

sorry jim, but when you know how to use software, regardless of what OS its in you never need to use the mouse.

It has nothing to do with graphical views of a GUI, has purely got to do with its 2004 not 1994.