Tuning Tips

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…

TunerStudio and is comprehensive engine tuning software that allows users to modify and optimize the performance of MS3Pro and MSPNP Engine Management Systems as well as the MicroSquirt EMS (and our old school kit-style MegaSquirt systems as well) All of our standalone Engine Management Systems allow users to fully control the engine and ignition of…

Have you ever been driving your car, maybe on a warm day, and all is going well. You park and shut ‘er down for a few minutes, come back to fire her up, and she runs completely different, or struggles to run at all for a few seconds? We can help! Here’s how to eliminate Heat Soak issues during hot restarts, we walk you through dialing this in on your MegaSquirt, MSPNP, or MS3Pro ECU!

EFI Expert and Author Greg Banish offers up a guest blog post offering insights on Fuel Rail Pressure Fluctuations, how they can impact the fueling of your EFI System, and what you can do to minimize any negative impact they could have!

Guest Blog Entry by Jeff Linfert Jeff has been a long time user, reseller, installer, and tuner of our products for many, many years now and has offered up some of his thoughts and insights on how to help you get the most out of your car and engine management system. If you need installation…

Many engines from the 1990s and later already have enough sensors to fully support sequential fuel injection. But what if you’re converting an older carbureted engine to EFI, or want sequential injection on an engine with an early bank to bank EFI system? Sometimes, you may be able to get an easy bolt-on solution from…

The relay board has an onboard fuel pump relay that will work for smaller fuel pumps. The Walbro GSL392, for example, will work fine at normal fuel pressures. We used one like this on our Chevy Nova project. But if you’re running a bigger fuel pump like an A1000, we recommend avoiding running the current…

The fuel pump relay (or a second relay wired in parallel if you are worried about too much current) can be a handy source of power for other devices. The fuel pump relay can help isolate noise from coils and injectors from the main ECU power. And powering a wideband O2 sensor controller from the…

The MSPNP Gen 2 does not have as many analog inputs available as its big brother, the MS3Pro PNP. However, you can add an analog input with our jumper.1 kit if you are willing to give up the barometric pressure sensor or knock sensor input. No soldering is required. To carry out this modification, remove…