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Originally Posted by sybir
Ummm, Mike's old car was tuned by us, his new car was tuned by Gruppe-S. After tuning Mike's WRX, Nate found a way to smooth the OL/CL transitions, but Mike was onto his 05 at that point, wanted to go with AP, and Moike took care of him at a time when we couldn't. QED.
Regarding your second request, and your statement of professionalism, you're speculating on a lot that I'm not going to respond to on a public forum, as I'm not going to get into details on why the old shop went away. Nate is no longer tuning, but the work he's done over the years is his intellectual property. Maps cannot be read by another Ecutek license, so there is no reason for or method to provide those maps to past customers. The "computer" is not available for that information, and likely won't be, and while we have the Ecutek software, we prefer the Cobb solution as it offers much easier and quicker tuning, so retunes on Ecutek cars will be handled in a method to be determined once the new shop is up and rolling.
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I appologize if I did not have the whole story, I thougt Mike got his WRX cleaned up prior to sale, but either way, my point is made. More time was required to smooth the CL-OL transition. More time tuning is not bad in and of itself.
As far as the maps go, I know they can be printed, and PT maps can definitely be saved and shared in ST format, if not PT format. I'd also be surprised if there isn't a transportabe format for the ECUTek maps as well. or how would ECUTek distribute base maps, etc...
I realize they are intelectual property, but it is Nate's option to share that property with the customers who have supported him in the past. Choosing to do so is up to him. If he has moved on, I see no reason not to share that information, and having that information could be quite valuable to his past customers who are continueing to make mods to their cars. The relationships between at least some of the inputs/outputs will remain unchanged with additional mods depending on the mod. The customer will likely have to pay for more tuning time as that data will not be available, and the car will have to be retuned from scratch effectively. will have to start from scratch, not where the car was already tuned to. Again, it is, or at least was Nate's option.
Please don't get me wrong, I am not dissing Nate, as a past customer, I am voicing a request/issue I wish he had/would address.