Tuning Tips

When selecting a standalone ECU, there are a few key factors to consider. First and foremost, it’s important to determine the application and what features and capabilities are necessary.

Considering a standalone ECU? Whether you’re replacing the factory ECU in your track car, or ditching the carb in your classic cruiser, learn why now might be the time to make the switch and take control!

The guys at DD-EFI have done it again! With their Pro Dash’s ability to work as an I/O Expansion on MS3Pro, MSPNP, and any other MS2 or MS3 based products. Check out this guest blog post they have put together below. Which turns into a bit of a technical guide to help you know how…

You’ve either heard the term ‘Wasted Spark Ignition’ or seen it in the Megasquirt ignition settings in TunerStudio, but sometimes the concept can be tricky to grasp. If you’re running an aftermarket engine management system however, it’s something you should make sure to understand and use to your advantage. What makes Wasted Spark better than…

Greg Banish, Calibrated Success Our gasoline (and ethanol flex fuel!) engines rely heavily upon their ignition system for proper operation. The process of making power begins with the spark inside the cylinder lighting off a chain reaction between fuel and air molecules that releases heat and increases cylinder pressure well beyond the normal compression work…

Hey folks, Jeff Linfert from Linfert Performance/Buras Motorsports here once again as a guest blogger. If you missed my first blog, we are a Megasquirt reseller, installer, and tuning shop in East Central Florida. Most of our customers road race, own Miatas or both but we will take on most anything. My partner Todd Buras…

Modernizing with a PNP DD-EFI Digital Dash for your Megasquirt ECU In most cases people decide to upgrade to a Megasquirt, MSPNP, or MS3Pro ECU due to either exceeding the capabilities or needing additional features that the stock system could not. The dash has the same issues, with all those inaccurate or broken stock clusters,…

Greg Banish, Calibrated Success Before we ever begin tuning our delivered air to fuel ratio in the engine, we have to make some decisions about fuel delivery and calibration. I will preface this with the usual requirement that we also have complete injector characterization data (flow rate, offsets vs voltage, short pulse nonlinearity compensation) before…

PiDash by Pahls Performance is a RaspberryPi based digital dashboard display that runs TunerStudio. In additional to allowing you to customize your dash and gauges, you can also tune your engine straight from the dash using a keyboard and mouse, or in some models touchscreen capabilities. The PiDash requires minor wiring for a 12v power…

Greg Banish, Calibrated Success Idle tuning and control often seems to be an afterthought on some tuning projects. The devil’s work, it seems. Worse some try to do it too soon without nailing other important aspects of the calibration and get hellish results, only to curse the controller. Proper idle tuning and control can be…