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Originally Posted by JC
You are an engineer, you know what a terrible argument that is. Engineers are paid to make something extremely reliable and as cheap as is practical in addition to a bunch of other considerations. Their job is hardly to optimize performance. MBCs still suck though.
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Normally I'd agree w/ you. But in the case of the MBC discussion... the problem w/ MBC's is the terrible history of reliability and consistency. The factory boost control feedback loop is explicitly engineered for reliable boost (since Subaru certainly doesn't want to deal w/ motors blowing up left and right due to overboosting).
Granted, the factory software isn't tuned for performance, but the hardware is certainly very capable at controlling boost reliably. Since we have readily available remapping tools for the ECU, using risky cheap-o hardware to get less performance than the OEM bits can handle is an ass-backwards method of tuning.
Also, as a software engineer (specifically one that's doing a shit load of communications stuff), optimizing performance is easily 50% of what I do. (The other 50% is just getting other people's crappy-ass protocols to work at all...
'cause I'm still at work as I type this...)