All you do is call them up tell them what you want and they will help you. I think there located in Florida, he told me for a turbo tune you need to tell them what kind of car you have, year etc... And what system you are running in your car like what kind of turbo and accessories. Or you can buy an evo 8 ecu off them which I plan on doin. But tell them my name and ask for thier turbo tune special I always Ask for hookups so I'm pretty suretyey will do it for you to. Just call them up bro

 

That seems kind of iffy to me to just get an Evo VIII ecu from them and have them load a pre-installed tune onto a turbo without actually having the car running on a dyno in front of you and with all of your parts. With different levels of engine wear and minute differences in part selection and quality of parts would all affect the flow of an engine. without actually having the car in front of you this seems like a bandaid approach to tuning and to me would seem to be as useless as one those vortex generators for your intake. the only time i personally could see this being even remotely useful would be for someone that has no way of towing their car to a tuning shop or is not confident enough with their tuning to do a street tune to get them to a professional tuning shop. this is of course my opinion and i am still relatively new to all this, this just seemed extremely blatantly obvious. feel free to explain to me why you think i am wrong.

 

and I totally understand, think of it like this, there are many shops that have you send out your ecu some shops are either people in thier homes tuning it, or its a professional shop. Now for the benefit of the doubt you could send it in and get back either really a good tune, or to where your engine gets f***** up ya know. For my case I want to run the evo 8 ecu besides getting a flash and this is why I recommend that from what I heard. The evo 8 ecu controls your fuel, and all the other parts of your car but you can only use it if your car is turboed. If you buy it off them most likely its going to come standard or they will tune it for you depending on your car. But either way if it comes stock or tuned it will run fine because it has the same program as the original evo 8 ecu, and Im pretty sure most of us are buying used evo parts anyways right... but thats why you can call and make the determination yourself I called and I believed thier authentic but bro its your choice! I can only recommend from how I see it, so later down the road Im buying an evo 8 ecu off them because Im using stock evo parts anyways.

 

The evo ecu will not work by just plugging it in.
The maps have to be changed to suit your setup.

And no one sends out evo ECUs pretuned with a turbo lancer base map.

 

/\/\ I second that motion. I wouldnt run an evo ecu without a tactrix cable. There is just too much you need to do to it that shops wont do. This is definitely a DIY mod that you should be FULLY educated about before tackling.

 

Actually the Evo ECU swap was way easier than I expected.

 

yeah i dont feel comfortable just installing a pre-tuned ecu.. im sure its probably better than runnung no tune, but at the same time, you get what you pay for. i want my car to be tuned perfect and be as reliable as possible. and $400 isnt expensive for and ALL DAY flash and dyno tune. thats actually a smokin deal because they just charge one flat rate for however long it takes to get you car running perfect. while alot of other tuning shops charge $200/hour for dyno tune. plus Yimi Sport is known for some of the best mitsu/subi EcuFlash/tunes.. i thing thats the was im gonna go.

 

I'd go with a road tune too. You need daily driving conditions because it's a whole new ECU. You just don't tune WOT.

it's easy, but do you believe a tuner shop can send out evo ECUs out pretuned maps to match your lancer's setup? That's what they were asking

 

Im talking about all the stuff you have to change to be able to even start a lancer with it. Remember, senate is the creator of this and I highly doubt the shops will be able to do it. Maybe english racing, as they do build alot of lancers. But I dunno.

 

lol.

 

Whats so funny? Im not laughing. Unless there was something I missed. Im talking about the fact that you have to edit the xml file to be able to run it. The average tuning shop isnt going to be able to do that for you.

 

Well i read most of the thread here and Im not sure really how the company I know does but thats just from what they told me.

 

I think that any quality tuner can take an Evo ECU and tune it for a Lancer with no problems. The thing I don't agree on is email tunes or ship out your ECU to us, tell us your MODs and we will have a perfect tune for you. I think of it as a generic tune. Each car is different and responds to different MODs. So if one tune works for you it might not work for someone else.
I wouldn't trust buying the ECU from that shop because I know they'll charge you an arm and a leg for it. Just find one used on the forums, get a good base tune on it, then go to a known shop to get it done.

 

There are a couple of evo guys around me that are great with ecuflash and are very familiar with programming the evo ecu and will only charge about 150 for a tune. You might look to see whos in the neighborhood around you that has some GOOD tuning experience. The shops around me have alot of negative rep but the evo guy ive got has tuned hondas for as long as i can remember and got his evo about two years ago and is amazing. But ya, mail in flashes I would never trust.

 

eww pretunes are never correct, and are ecus dont have any auto adjustment for variables like some newer cars.

data files over e-mail is what i suggest if u dont have someone local..
people like touringbubble(who tuned my car) will get you to log your car and send them the files, they change variable, u reflash and go log some more and send it to him again, and so on and so on till the car is right.