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News from United Arab Emirates and our partner there:
Arabian Automotive Technologies is run by Steve Bijok, who is one of the most knowledgeable people in the world with regard to Subaru and tuning in general.
His book http://www.mrtrally.com.au/performance/wrxbook.htm is a must for anyone who is interested in these great cars. Now he is working with AAT he has turned his attention to the Mitsubishi EVO with predictably stunning results.
Have look at some local magazine articles featuring cars Steve has worked his magic on.
This is the demonstration and development car used by Cairns Leading Automotive Services in Queensland Australia. Working in conjunction with MRT in Sydney they are Australia's latest EcuTeK partner.
EcuTek have now completed their ProECU Tools product for the Mitsubishi EVO range of vehicles.
Supporting the EVO 5/6/7/8/9, EcuTek's new product offers a fast and effective way for
its worldwide tuning partners to effectively recalibrate the EVO engine management system.
Known as FlashEVO, this tool allows modification of ECY parameters such as boost profile, boost limit,
rev limit, fuelling & ignition timing.
MRT Performance, an EcuTek partner based in Sydney, have released this document describing their performance kits for Mitsubishi Lancer EVO IX using EcuTek software.
EcuTeK now have technical sales and support representation for North America. Headed by experienced Subaru rally and road technician Benoit Dagenais. Based in Montreal he now provides on site training and support for all of our North American tuning partners.
Benoit doing some essential R&D !
Part-time driver Tony Sullens today caused the biggest upset in the 13-year history of the Targa Tasmania tarmac rally when he ended the domination of previously all-conquering Porsche driver Jim Richards. Sullens, driving a four-wheel-drive Subaru WRX, won the drivetravel.com Modern Competition in the 2,105km rally with a total penalty time of 14-mins 53- secs over five days and 44 stages.
This car was tuned by our Australian partner MRT in Sydney and they are justifiably proud to have been involved in this win. It is of course running a completely stock ECU tuned using EcuTeK software.
The car was built and tuned by our German partner Dipl.-Ing. Koch Fahrzeugtechnik (Koch Tuning) in Schopfheim, Germany. Click on the images below for the full story...
The US National Club Rally Champions this year, Steve Gingras, of Elk River, Minnesota, and co-driver Bill Westrick, of Royal Oak, Michigan, campaigned their open class 2002 Subaru WRX running an ECU tuned with EcuTek tools. Gingras, now a three time winner of the overall title and regular top ten national level contender, clinched the championiship at the Doo Wop rallies this month.
Ken Cole, of Rally Performance (based in Pennsylvania, USA) noted that the Gingras Rally Sport team had approached them earlier in the year about an ECU remap using EcuTek technology. "Steve was curious about replacing the Link ECU that they were running in the car at the time. We had a candid discussion about the capabilities of a remapped ECU; although he was giving up anti-lag, he felt that the EcuTek could get him a better end product without the headaches. He had continued to get high EGTs despite efforts to get the car dialed in with the Link." The EcuTek remap by Rally Performance cured all that; the first ECU that the Gingras team used, in fact, was mapped at RP and sent to Steve via courier. He plugged it in, tested, and went rallying with good results. "We knew that Steve was running an uprated turbo and were concerned with the boost curve, since we were mapping remotely - but made a best effort at getting it conservatively close, so that he could go racing. While the boost curve wasn't optimized and we had to leave some power on the table, we got him up and running reliably". Steve was enthusiastic - "the high EGTs and other headaches were solved, and we could immediately focus on the other issues that needed to be done in the short time before the event". It should be noted that, unlike some of the other open class cars, Steve's car (thanks to the use of the capable OEM ECU) cranks to a start instantly - even in the frozen tundra of northern US rallying !
Just before the CR National Championship, Rally Performance flew to Elk River, Minnesota to get the car dialed in. While one more visit may be in the future for fine tuning in normal weather, Cole was pleased with the results: "The robustness of the EcuTek tools allows us to do real time, on-road analysis and then remapping, without forcing dyno time in each case. We were tweaking until 2am in the Minnesota wintertime. Steve's car is just super, there is actually a bit more power to be had without pushing too hard for a competition car."
Gingras turned around and won the national title: "Today we had a battle," Gingras said, who claimed his third CRNC overall (two in Production GT) and first in Open Class competiton. "We were tied after the first three stages today and then going into the last stage it was full speed ahead, charging blind into Dennis' (Martin's) dust. During the first day, Gingras won outright and held off challenges from other front runners; although he was back by three seconds on day 2, his comfortable margin from day 1 carried them to the title.
The car pictured is S&J's own MY99 STI demonstrator vehicle. The current spec. is as follows:
EcuTek's partners are now able to tune the 2004 model of US WRX. EcuTek are now working on support for the upcoming range of fly-by-wire throttle vehicles, such as the US STI and Forester XT.
Not content with his highly successful mail order business, Brett of MRT is expanding into shopping centres across Australia !
Vishnu Performance Tunes 100th Car using EcuTek ToolsVishnu performance, headed up Shiv Pathak has been involved in programmable engine management for over 10 years. Recognising the significance of EcuTek's offering of ECU tuning tools, they were quick to adopt the product for incorporation in their range of Subaru performance packages and custom tuning services. |
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Since the one month of solid testing that Vishnu performed prior to launching their range of performance ECU services, they have been offering this service to the discerning enthusiast for a period of two months. Benefitting from an in-house dyno and 5 day a week tuning for familiarity with the tools, in this short period of time, Shiv and his staff have EcuTek tuned over 100 cars with some impressive results:
EcuTek add Support for 2001 onwards STI vehiclesEcuTek have added support for the latest variable valve timing STI vehicles to their professional ECU tuning tool. This feature allows professional tuners to optimise intake valve angles across the rev range to take best advantage of other performance modifications such as exhausts & turbos. |
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Until now, EcuTek products gained all their engine data from the diagnostics port of the car. This new feature, (added to DeltaDash and Flash2002), allows many extra sensors to be added to a vehicle for specialised and detailed data analysis. Applications include logging of per cylinder EGT and wideband lambda data capture.
At SEMA 2002, the worlds largest motor show, held in Las Vegas Nevada, EcuTek launched their professional ECU tuning tools for the 2001 onwards WRX Impreza and Forrester vehicles. Available to the professional tuner only, these tools allow accurate modification of ECU parameters for driveability and power. Click here for further information.
Picture & Artwork Courtesy of Rene Coolegem, Holland
| When you are offered an all expenses paid trip to such a dramatic country, how can you possibly say no ! Stephen Done, EcuTek software designer, visited Halldór Jónsson to custom map his Impreza Turbo. This highly modified combined road car and drag racer already had full Blitz/GGR exhaust system, including Power Engineering Maxim racing manifold, Blitz Induction, intercooler splitter, turbo intake pipe and custom air intake scoops. |  |
Together with a standard EcuTek performance ECU, this car already held the 2 litre class record for standing quarter mile at 13.081 seconds. After custom mapping to take account of Iceland's cooler climate and the highly capable manifold, this time was reduced to 12.846 seconds ! Halldór's next purchase is likely to be a hybrid turbo which should release even more potential. And Iceland had better watch out next year when Halldór intends to build an STI 7 based race car... with nitrous ! |
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The EcuTek open day held at Power Engineering was a great success. EcuTek demonstrated their data logging and ECU programming technology on Power Engineering's four wheel drive dyno using a car from an owner in the audience. DeltaDash was used to monitor engine performance. The data gathered was then used to help decide which ECU parameters to modify when reprogramming the ECU. |
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EcuTek have appointed dealers around the world to bring our technology to more car owners. Including England, Scotland, USA, South Africa, Australia, Holland & Sweden. See the EcuTek Dealers for more information.
EcuTek have forged a strong relationship with MRT, who are now the official distributor for Australia and New Zealand. See www.ecutek.com.au.
