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Old 03-09-2010, 07:58 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Stand alone cost - $3000 installed
Extra tuning - $800
The laughs from friends when you only gain 5hp - priceless

A direct comparison to GT-R's is not apples to apples because the G/Z platform is not factory turbo, but look how far the GT-R can be taken on just the Cobb. I doubt on one of these Stage 1-3 kits that a standalone will be any safer or gain any significant power. As is often said with mods, the increased performance is from lightening your wallet.
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Stand alone cost - $3000 installed
Extra tuning - $800
The laughs from friends when you only gain 5hp - priceless

A direct comparison to GT-R's is not apples to apples because the G/Z platform is not factory turbo, but look how far the GT-R can be taken on just the Cobb. I doubt on one of these Stage 1-3 kits that a standalone will be any safer or gain any significant power. As is often said with mods, the increased performance is from lightening your wallet.
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Stand alone cost - $3000 installed
Extra tuning - $800
The laughs from friends when you only gain 5hp - priceless

A direct comparison to GT-R's is not apples to apples because the G/Z platform is not factory turbo, but look how far the GT-R can be taken on just the Cobb. I doubt on one of these Stage 1-3 kits that a standalone will be any safer or gain any significant power. As is often said with mods, the increased performance is from lightening your wallet.
Agreed. When good quality reflash software is available, standalones are probably only necessary for high-boost/built engine applications.
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A good reflash will be light years ahead of a lot of the stand alone options out there with in limits. We aren't talking about some of the lame "power programmers" that were available back in the day that offer simple tuning options. We are talking about being able to reprogram all or 90%+ of the factory parameters. In this situation until you are well beyond what the factory sensors (mainly maf/map) can handle in terms of airflow, you will probably be better off with a stock ECU on a reflash.

When the time may come that the mafs just aren't able to meter the much larger volume of air coming into the motor, or you need so much fuel that your injectors are too large to be able to idle well w/ in the stock ecus capability, or similar, then a stand alone is going to be the better option. However to achieve the same level of driveability, plan to spend some time, and some money. The factory ECU can compensate for almost any change in atmospheric conditions, duplicating this ability w/ the tables offered in most stand alone options is where a good tuner with experience will shine.
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[QUOTE=MMC Racing;436025]Stand alone cost - $3000 installed
Extra tuning - $800
The laughs from friends when you only gain 5hp - priceless

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Agreed on stand alone in terms of cost, personally I would not go that route if I did there are only a couple of units I would personally consider.
I would reflash a stock ECU everytime generally (with a reflash that is easily removed , i.e. uninstalled if needed) but stand alones do have benefits in terms of add on module support, EBCS direct control , WBo2, EGT etc etc
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