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Has Anyone got a vi-pec in there r33 rb25 and has a good base map that I could work with to get my car running. Would have to suit 1000cc xspurts/id1000's. I'm waiting for my tech edge wideband to turn up so I'm going to give it a go and play around with the vi-pec tuning software hopefully get it running well enough to take it in to get a full tune done. Any help and tips is appreciated, cheers

You're running a very similar set up to me except I went with a Link G4. My advice to you is if you plan on tuning yourself, then driving it on the street, you'll need to tune real time on the road to correct mixtures at various loads - I do NOT recommend you do this by yourself and it is strongly advised you understand A/F mixtures and timing (among other things) before you attempt anything. Idle mixtures differ greatly compared to mixtures under load (especially with boost coming on). If the vi-pec is anything like the link plug and play (vi-pec and link are incredibly similar), there should be an included base map that will be enough for you to start the car and do any prechecks you need. Typically they are a very rich ('safe') base tune and are exactly that - a base tune, designed to be enough to start the car and drive it onto the dyno for a full tune.

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i have some knowledge and understanding, not a great deal but i am intrested in learning to do more of my own tuning in the future. ive done some tuning with a microtech ecu which i done some road tuning in one of my cars in the past and done a fair bit of carby tuning recently on my vs which has an carby ls1 and use msd software for setting ignition maps. ive got vcm suite/hp tuners software which ive used in my old vz ls1 obviosaly the vi-pec is a lot more complex and a different ball game with boost but i gotta start some where thoe.

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