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Yea thats right wrxkilla. The unit will help you tune out the corner exit oversteer under power.

The exit corner speed of our car coming onto the straight was apparantly one of the best at superlap on the weekend.

Curious, does this unit solve or help solve the issue of the early versions of ATTESA being a bit slow to engage.

I find sometimes I get on the power early in a lowish speed corner, when exiting I lose traction :(

Doing a few hill climbs and comming out in 2nd gear, I put the power down and the rears just spin up. Exit so slow T_T

In short YES

There are 5 available maps with Paul's controller.

Each map modifies the lat sensor signal. Map 1 has the same characteristics as the the original signal. The other maps produce earlier or later responses.

The gain on all 5 maps are tunable. One out of 2 maps can be selected by a toggle switch. There are so many tuning points

For the amount of power I try to put down around the circuit, my car normally goes sideway if I put my foot down to early around the corner. This usually costs time. I managed to distract Paul from his busy schedule of organising the Nissan Anual Track meet, secure a unit and hook it up before the track day. With so much things to do with the car before the track day I did not get a chance to test this unit at all. I had a quick flick through the manual and left it on Map 2 with a toggle on for Map 1. The track condition was dam on the day. There were water puddle, dirt and mud on the track at most places. My RE55 were also worn to the indicators. Despite all of that, I had even less sideway movement than before, was able to get on the gas earlier and was able to do a few 4wd power slide. I had very little test time with the unit and came first in the GTR class and also fastest Nissan of the day. I am confident that with a few more tweaks it will be awesome. As others said, this unit should be standard on the GTR ;)

Thanks for all your help and for producing an awesome product Paul.

I have another question (or suggestion) Paul :P

With the current firmware, can you set the toggle switch to the same Map with different gain levels eg Toggle on Map 1 of 10 and Toggle OFF with Map1 of 80?

guys, this is an absolute no-brainer.

if you have a gtr and you do any kind of serious driving with it, you need to buy one of these.

i bought one early in my gtr days, and it was in all sincerity a better performance upgrade than the $2000 suspension. the difference is noticeable immediately, and as soon as there is any driving condition where grip is compromised you can dial in exactly what you want the car to do.

and even better, its designed and built by a qld SAU member.

Thanks for all the great feedback on the unit. Its good to hear of successes of customers. Especially when they also attend my track days. Congrats on the double win 9krpm at the Nissan Meeting.

Also yes you can set both toggle switch settings to the same map with different gains. Just select the toggle position, select the map and gain, then put the toggle in the other position and do the same.

I can't wait until you have had a chance to do some serious testing as I'm sure your laptimes will improve even more !!

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