This could be a controversial thread but fuck it,

What helps you make up your mind, say you have just bought a new car different from any previous marque you have owned ,


Mike

 

See who are the leading people in that field and go from there...

Go onto that marques interweb forums and gauge views from there.

Ask on here who to use

 

go on peoples past experience and the tuner's results with other cars

 

results with customer cars

 

A bit of luck and trial and error i guess.

 

So for an Evo

Mike

 

MA Developments

 

suppose it would have to be the place where a lot of the mitsubishi development work was done before the car was released, where some of the Prodrive ECU's are developed & where Ecutek was founded & still located!!!



now let me think.........

 

Fook taking my car to Japan for a set-up

 

My mate had his evo 6 mapped by Dentist Mapped.
Think they have a web site.

 

I know you were going to say that Matt ,


Mike

 

There's MAD, CPP and RC Developments that seem the most popular on MLR.

 

make a list - get a blindfold - have some fun!

 

Funnily enough..... http://dentistmapped.com/

Red's already mentioned the ones I was going to mention for the EVO - I know AJ is happy with his Autronic setup by Mark.

A good friend of mine is lucky enough to have contacts in Ralliart, so he's getting his uprated by them.

 

MA Developments, based on how happy AJ is with his

 

sell it,, and buy a cossie

 

Even I would say go see Mark @ MA Developments.

I've seen Kev Atkins EVO, and that's some car

 

ECUTEK specalise in Subaru & Mitsubishi remapping, they do a convertion by serial port connection which remaps the cars standard ecu, so theres no changing things or pulling the car apart to do it, just a laptop plugged in to a serial port in the car.
Ecutek developed quite a bit of the Ralliart & Prodrive stuff aswell, so no need to go to Japan
the dentist uses Ecutek amongst his other brands

 

we looked at suppling ecutek but we got a guy to local to us,

shame that!!!!

 

yeah, shame Gary, they work well & are nice & easy to install, no cutting or soldering, on our Evo 8 (MR320) with bigger injectors, turbo & the ecutek it made about 420bhp.


not got them to devise anything for the escos yet, so its good old Omex for mine

 

yeah i used to do superchips in the same way when i worked at sca.

the worst bit about it is the guy only does scoobys and not evos and we just about to be a trader on mlr!!!

 

aren't owen developments EVO tuners as well??

my mate will be taking his EVO to MAD

 

Westy, yes, but it seems only a few (mostly FQ owners ) have heard of them.

 

what are you doing on this thread Westy?????











it says choosing your TUNER, not trainer

 

 

Air Max developments is the place to take all EVO's..

Bongman.. my understanding is that alot of input into the engine/turbo etc was done by Owen Developments for the FQ models.. Mate was saying when he was there last time, they have a 500+ bhp EVO..

So why dont more use them? tbh Id never heard of the company before, just intrigued..

FPMSL @ tuner not trainer

 

MA are good, but can they remap standard ecu's yet?

if not it must work out quite pricey to fit autronic, & if the car needs to back for warrenty.......
the Ecutek is an undetectable file in the standard ecu so if your car go's back to a main dealer they may never know! it can also be returned back tostandard if need be.

 

There's also Norris Designs and RG Motorsport.

 

Wes'ide, that's my understanding too - there was another company involved as well, but can't remember their name. I think they possibly tend to concentrate on OE stuff (e.g. FQ models for Mitsi), although I'm sure the aftermarket side of the business will grow.

Guzzler, I think you misquoted? I was reffering to OD not MAD...

Red, can't believe no one mentioned Norris until now

 

norris designs are near the top for jap stuff.

there latest demo car is a beast. short wheel base evo lol

9.71 sec 1/4 mile @145mph on Avon ZZR Road legal low profile tyres. lol

they r aiming for sub 9's.

http://www.norrisdesigns.com/

 

It would have to be

 

experience&reputation,location,price in that order

 

Same problem here sadly so my choice is still Autronic for the Lancer.

 

Any other ideas veiws ??


Mike

 

Stu why not say Pectel or Motec, or even Omex or something siliar why Autronic


Mike

 

NORRIS DESIGNS

 

For the Evo I'd probably suggest Mark Shead too, or Simon Norris since both have produced a number of well known cars which produce the goods.

It seems funny that particular after market management seems to be favoured on certain makes of car, e.g:

Impreza's = Motec
Evo's = Autronic / Gems
Cossie's = Pectel

I presume it's just a case of what the particular tuner prefers working with.

 

interesting point Mike

 

RC developments,
cos i know the owner. lol

and his demo car run a low 10 at pod, still with glass, on road tyres, and his 2nd run b4 the gearbox broke and ended the day,

i spoke to him the week b4 he did this run,
he had driven the evo to athens for a show, then driven it home.
for a 10s car to be driven to athens and back in 5 days thats gotta say something about the car.
and the week after it was going to the isle of mann for a weekend racing

 

If I felt the urge for more power then it would be the Autronic replacement board route.

Why?

The original harness is used no wireing nor additional sensors are needed.

Full control over fuel, ignition, boost etc etc and comes complete with Autotune.

Now go do your home work Mike