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Re: racetech's 1200 SR20VE Project

Subject: Re: racetech's 1200 SR20VE Project
by kululadotgroen on 2013/6/7 23:22:49

In all honesty, while they might not have the features the over the seas expensive managements have, some of the "Proudly South African" managements are every bit as reliable and easy to set up as any others out there. I've had various of them in my possession over the years and have never had difficulty to start any car I wired myself. Admitted, there's a bad apple here and there, but they are well known and easily avoided. It's a little disingenuous to compare local ECU's to the Link, since they are designed to cater for the market over here. On a level playing field no ECU can make more power than another if they are equally well tuned.

I'll be trying my hand at a Perfect Power XMS5 soon, which is packed choc full of features, still not on the level the Link might be, but the guys are having great success with it and it has some very cool features comparable to and over and above others, notably using a speed sensor input you can have traction control, street dyno and others. It has closed loop lambda with long term automatic tuning ability, closed loop boost control and it will keep logs of anything in the ECU either internally or in a laptop plugged in. It 8 fully configurable auxiliary outputs on any of the values the ECU reads and or produces, with the option to chain them together with if/and/or. It also now has digital display out puts for up to 8 digital displays for any of the values in the ECU reads or produces, with the option to mirror them for headsup display. This all for around R3800 which includes the ECU and an ignition amplifier which in itself has over current and heat protection with LED indication of internal status. Not bad if I might say so myself.

On another note, I love your build, have been following it since the beginning and every time someone talks down on our little cars I point them towards this thread so that they can see what can be accomplished with enough dedication and time. My own car has been gathering dust in the garage for 2 years now, mostly due to work commitment on a project that is now in it's very final implementation stage, so I'll be starting work on it again soon. I hope we can have a get together so I can look at this little monster in the flesh. I just missed it when it was standing at Profit having it's exhaust made some time ago and might have saved you ending up with that bugger up...

BTW, if you ever decide to go forced induction, I build and have built a bunch of turbo manifolds for quite a few guys down here in Cape Town and elsewhere in the country. One or two of the fastest on the drag strip has run and will soon be running my manifolds, one of which will be a contender for the fastest turbo charged 4 cylinder car in the country(Toyota 3RZ motor with a turbo the size of a VW beetle). Will be glad to help and show you a few tips to build one yourself, it's really not rocket science so to say. I'm a computer programmer myself and cars is my hobby, well at least when I can practice it...lol