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This is what you need to do.

Sell the power fc and buy a Vi-pec. Problem solved. Even with jetro your still limited. Vi-pec is your best plug in option.

Don't know about the Vipec?

This ecu is fast becoming the best plug in option for Skylines and other imports

I not even going to bother reading this thread, as Ash has the most posts in here and he is always right.

And my question doesn’t warrant a new thread, however, these ECU’s. Is anyone quickly becoming the “go to” person to have these tuned in Queensland?

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I not even going to bother reading this thread, as Ash has the most posts in here and he is always right.

And my question doesn't warrant a new thread, however, these ECU's. Is anyone quickly becoming the "go to" person to have these tuned in Queensland?

Mark Jacobsen at Godzilla Motorsport in QLD is a Vi-PEC dealer and also tunes Power FC.

He actually said to me when the Vi-PEC was released he doubted the Vi-PEC would be able to run the engine better than the power fc. He now acknowledges that the vi-pec is a better product.

Mark Jacobsen at Godzilla Motorsport in QLD is a Vi-PEC dealer and also tunes Power FC.

He actually said to me when the Vi-PEC was released he doubted the Vi-PEC would be able to run the engine better than the power fc. He now acknowledges that the vi-pec is a better product.

So his drag car runs this ECU?

Mark/Anyone dabbled with these in Evo’s yet?

So his drag car runs this ECU?

Mark/Anyone dabbled with these in Evo's yet?

No he still runs a MoTeC M800...i was too going this way too on my drag car but Mark suggested we wait and see if the Vi-PEC was up to all it was touted to be. After doing a few Mark phoned me and said the Vi-PEC is an amazing unit and just as good in my car as what the mega dollar MoTeC would be. He is far more experienced than all of all of on here put together and anyone that has met him or had any dealings with him knows he's a no bullsh1t straight shooter who calls it like it is.

Yes Mark has done a few EVO's as well.

Overboost cut is another nice feature of the Vi-PEC...whats stoping the Power FC in the unfortunate event of a wastegate hose melting on the manifold, a leak, a split hose or one popping off.

Temperatue controlled mapping...only allowing the engine to access parts of the map on start-up to prevent engine wear or shutting parts of the map down due to over-temp conditions.

The Power FC is starting to look like a glorified Nistune now isnt it.

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Interesting argument in here....

Here's my 2c because ,well... it's a forum :)

I think everyone agree's that the powerFC is a top little ecu. It might also be argued that it's cheaper than the Vipec thing to buy and do the initial tune on if you don't need more AFM flow.

I've had a few of the PowerFc's and I think they are ok.

However.

I'm not a fan of the tuning clunk of the power FC. I had a stinger EMS (nothing special) inbetween drinks so to speak with skyline and powerFC ownership and from a tune point of view it's faster and therefore less costly (if you don't do it yourself). The datalogit looks like it came from a foriegn language. You can do anything you like but, really slowly.

My idea of an ecu tune is something that addresses the whole shooting match in the same way as the factory tune does. The powerFC now falls behind on road tune abillity too. Road tunes are important for accurate load adjustments. Newer ecu's that have wideband plugins offer a very welcome functionality.

Having been in a number of PowerFC equiped GTR's I can certainly tell when they have had the 2hr special 'power tune', they are dull compared to the tunes I put in mine purely because I have more hours spent on them.

Looking at the prices the Vipec is good value.

Selling the power FC = $1200 plus saving $600 for AFM's

Thats $1800 to play with.

Provided you had a tuner who knows the ecu. The Vipec is going to be giving you a sharp responsive car for less tune time and less money. Not to mention the other features you can play with when you are bored.

The interface is also something that lets you begin to understand what the tune is and offers you a starting point to get into self tuning the powerFC doesn't make easy.

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