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Old Feb 19, 2010 | 12:43 PM
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Hi fello scooby owners i brought my car about 2wks ago and have found out it is usin an Open source ECU????? Can anyboby shed some light on this cheers.
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Old Feb 19, 2010 | 12:49 PM
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A DIY method of tailoring your ECU for your mods.
All you need to know will be on here :

openecu.org • Index page

and here:

RomRaider - Open Source ECU Tools | RomRaider / Rom Raider

From what i can gather its fairly sucessful, very interesting and extremely enconomical (till you blow it up LMAO)
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Old Feb 19, 2010 | 01:01 PM
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so is it worth havin it mapped by a pro ie ecutec or ascooby place???
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Old Feb 19, 2010 | 01:10 PM
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I know on the MLR there are boys who will map the evos (and some will do scoobs) safely on OpenECU and have a good bit of experience behind them.

The only disadvantage i can see is there is no way you can know for sure that you have a safe map without haveing someone who know what they are looking at , look over it for you. There may well be someone on here who will look at it for you, although when i spoke to JGM he wasnt fussed on working with it ( and for good reason ) so im not sure who, (if any) of the big named tuners are offering it.

The alternative will be ECUtek and with that comes the slightly higher price tag, and as such the peace of mind and experience of an established tuner.

If it was me and I have no tuning experience, i would either find someone who will work with OpenECU to have a look over it, or have someone in the know give it an ECUtek map.

Alternatively if its a project / track car, and you have ***** of steel and a healthy mind, search about for the DIY tuning threads and get learning , it is on my todo list, not for a career path, but just for my own interest.
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Old Feb 19, 2010 | 01:16 PM
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I got mine OS mapped, half the price ... same outcome

** by a Pro ... try Andrew Carr, http://www.thwaitesdevelopments.co.uk/ are close to you

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Old Feb 19, 2010 | 01:33 PM
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Good to see a pro supporting the OS stuff
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Old Feb 20, 2010 | 05:19 PM
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Originally Posted by glen.w
Hi fello scooby owners i brought my car about 2wks ago and have found out it is usin an Open source ECU????? Can anyboby shed some light on this cheers.
andrew carr mapped your car so yes it has a safe map, you can spend more money on having it ecutec mapped to achieve the same, whats the point? when you already have a very capable car
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Old Feb 20, 2010 | 07:19 PM
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Subaru ECU Remapping / Tuning @ RaceDynamix | UK | Mobile Subaru Remapping & ECU Tuning
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Old Feb 24, 2010 | 11:20 AM
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Originally Posted by bigsigh
Good to see a pro supporting the OS stuff


As said, same results different price as you don't have the ecutek license to pay for.
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