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oh alright, thanks for your input. usually how much should it cost to tune SAFC as im trying not to get ripped off cuz Unique Auto Sports wanted to charge nearly $1000 by the sound of it cuz they told me to go POWER FC cuz the tuning for SAFC will balance the price up and be the same in the end.

oh alright, thanks for your input. usually how much should it cost to tune SAFC as im trying not to get ripped off cuz Unique Auto Sports wanted to charge nearly $1000 by the sound of it cuz they told me to go POWER FC cuz the tuning for SAFC will balance the price up and be the same in the end.

omfg $1000!?!?

go get it done at hitman, he did my pfc in my old 33 gtst.

i know bel garage charges about $250 (my mate got it done there)

hope you don't mind the hijack mate .. can anyone just explain the difference between the powerfc and safc ? are there any other aftermarket programmable ecu's for and r34 gtt?

http://paulr33.skylinesaustralia.com/docs/powerfc-faq/powerfc-faq.htm"]Paul's PFC Thread

http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/Computer-Piggy-Ecu-t218012.html&hl=safc"]Another ECU Thread

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Mate there are literally kezillion threads like this, just do a quick search in the Force Induction forum.

oh alright, thanks for your input. usually how much should it cost to tune SAFC as im trying not to get ripped off cuz Unique Auto Sports wanted to charge nearly $1000 by the sound of it cuz they told me to go POWER FC cuz the tuning for SAFC will balance the price up and be the same in the end.

Hmm .. I was there today to do a dyno run and one of the guys was tryng to convince me to get a SAFC as my car's running a bit rich under load. He said he had a used one for $250 and fully tuned it would come to $550 so I'm not sure why they told you a $1000, unless they were trying to flog something else when you were there (had a spare pfc around they wanted to get rid of? lol )

To be perfectly frank, the place seems like a boy racer hell ... the tuner bloke was really nice and knew his stuff, but the general feel I got from the shop was "show us your money and we'll find something to sell you"

$250 for used? mate you got a bargain. Well like i said it sounded like they were gonna charge 1k cuz they said *eventually* it'll balance out to be the same total price, so why go for power fc.

Maybe the safc is a pain in the ass to reprogramm and it can take several tunes to get it right so $300 x several times = price of pfc tuned.

Pfc tuned is about $2k. Great if you wanna mod your car and keep doing it ... but I just can't justify that sort of cost when some people just simply remap their stock ecu and get a nice result apparently.

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