Don't get too happy yet. These are the same features that were promised months ago and we didn't get jack ****. Ectuek has potential, but right now there's one shop offering it (I'm assuming we leave Visconti off the list since the car-b-cue he had with a customers car). I wouldn't be a guinea pig for something like this.

I still haven't seen tuning on a FI car via ECUTEK.

I'm not getting my hopes up too soon. I'll wait for others to take plunge on this. For now, Uprev and a touch of methanol is good enough for me. If the flex fuel option works out well on the VQ platform, this will be a big game changer.

For those in this group buy who are planning to build your motor, which turbo did you choose? I had my mind set on the 20G for my built motor, but now I am considering the GT2871r or even the GT30 series.

I think there was one member who had visconti's tune on his TT setup but I haven't seen anything about it in awhile. Visconti might be busy still putting out the flames over on the fr-s forums still :stirthepot:

Wow I didn't know it was that bad! Should I go with Uprev? Is the programming that messed up and hard to work with?

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You should be good to go as far the tuning aspect of things. There is an N/A 370z guy here in San Antonio who swears by Ecutek, and makes at least 320whp with it. I think some people were concerned about boost control, map switching, and a few other things that may not be ready just yet for the VQ platform. Who did you have in mind to tune your Ecutek?

Precision R out of San Antonio

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There's also Dynotronics out of New Braunfels north of San Antonio. That's who's running the group buy here.

Yup, they are the only people who I know of so far in Texas that has tuned a 370z using Ecutek.

I called any one have a round number of hours it will take to install the kit? It's $110 an hour for labor there.

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20- 25 hours

Cost of a good quality install will run between $1800-$2000. You can add $350-600 on top of that for tuning. I'll pm you a shop here in SA that has done several top notch GTM turbo builds. The tuner, George,at this shop has not tuned with Ecutek yet, but he is seriously considering adding it to his list of many tuning options he has available. When he does get his hands on it, IMHO he would be your go to guy.

I appreciate that

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I went with EcuTEK as well. I'm going to be working with a very reputable tuner down in South Florida. He's tuned all sorts of cars, and every single one I see is done so well and reliable. He also swears by EcuTEK.

My patience on this kit is getting pushed hard. I really don't know if I can go any longer. Lately my life has been stressed enough. It's on the rise now, but.... My car has always been my life away from life. I don't know if I can do it even this close if it really is. I'm stuck and I guess I could count my losses. Come Friday might be my last day waiting. Seriously.

Who are you going to use for tuning?

I called Sam last week and he said he would have the final schedule out the last friday that passed. I've been patiently waiting, but it's hard to expect things and then have the expectations broken again and again. :ugh2:

I'll hopefully be working with Kenny@Turbogixxer Tuning. You can find his stuff on facebook. He's a really cool guy, very knowledgeable and intuitive. He tuned my buddy's turbo'd Kia Forte on Haltech, another friend's all-motor high compression Civic, as well as plenty of Honda's, 6 cyl cars, and street bikes. One thing I really vouch for is his sense of professionalism and the ease of talking to him.

He just finished purchasing the full suite of RaceROM software for the EcuTEK stuff, and he's very looking forward to that market. I talked to him about this particular setup, and besides working with the experimental VVEL and Boost control which are in development, I think we will be able to get the car running awesome.

I heard the single life is better anyway....

Me too buddy. At least you still have your car in the meantime. I may be correcting that issue soon.

I sacrificed what was going to be my biggest track year yet. I had sever thousands put back for at least 15+ events and now its over for the year. My motor had been pulled since May. Sometimes enough is enough even this close. No pun intended towards GTM. Great people and friends. Life lesson learned. Sometimes a principle has to be honored towards myself. Maybe next time around. Trust me my heart is broke as funny as that may sound.

Due to the enourmous delay, how about shipping the kits to those people who have PAID IN Full 3 MONTHS AGO instead of trying to get 100 kits ready to go and stocked on the shelves ready for order.

I found this to be absolutely hilarious.

It would be a lot better if they just never even gave you an idea when they thought it was going to be done, and just said "when it's done we'll tell you" like FI did there is no bitching in that thread.

Gotta love a hype man.... or group.
Flaaaaava Flaaaaaaaaav!!!

I just find it funny, you guys are entitled to your own opinions, but reading the two threads i really find it funny that the only difference between the 2 (other than differences between the kits, and number of orders) is one gave out a wrong date and one didn't give out any. You guys can say whatever you want i'm not gonna stop you. I know i personally would think it sucks but that's how it goes sometimes, hell i waited the better part of a year for my berk cat back from their group buy, and i just dealt with it because that's how this goes sometimes, the FI GB is going the same way sometimes delays come up, or problems arise, or they decide to make improvements, all i see as a difference is bad forecasting, same thing happened in the berk GB, in the end the company came through, shipped us all our stuff months late, sorted out the problems, and the people that got out had to rebuy it at full price while i stayed in and got my exhaust for 800 or 900 dollars and i had it before them anyway. The only guys who weren't upset that they cancelled were the ones who actually just changed there minds and wanted to go with a different exhaust and bitched about the deadline so they could get a refund.

How safe is this kit on an automatic?

Being gone made it a forced wait. But I'll say when I got home and had to wait one more month, my patience was wearing. Having said that, now that I have her back and see the whole finished product, it was worth every dollar, every hour, and every late email response. I seen so many nodded cars lose what made them great from half assing installs, buying $hitty parts, not researching, and just plain going too far. In the few weeks I had mine, pulleys don't squeal (one did for a few days and went away), starts instantly, not rattles, no power spikes or dips, no funny sounds, the car is doing exactly what it's supposed to do; drive like a Z with way more power. I haven't driven in a turbo Z but if anyone is in the ATL area willing to let me ride shotgun, I am down ;)

A lot of Fire Arising through this thread xD oh well for now I'm going to upgrade my N/A motor for shites and giigles :driving::happydance:

A lot of people say the same thing. But the excitement for me is gone. I don't care if it was delivered last week. The joy is finally gone as of this past weekend. I know this would of been a flawless perfectly finished kit but there's no way that could remotely make me feel better about it. I'm literally depressed about it. To type this seems so pointless.

Come tonight I'm going to do some serious thinking and tomorrow is most likely it for me. Even if I had in my hands I'm looking at three weeks to be up and running.

Buck up, buckaroo!

I went a year without driving mine. It's worth it in the end.

That's the point. It's not in my eyes. My car is strictly a track car now with no enjoyment on the street most likely. I've bucked up several times. I don't even have parts to go back NA. :(

That sucks, it looks like you will have to keep pushing through then. I got in on this group buy because a friend of mine wanted to buy my Stage 1.5 SC back in June. He swore up and down that he was going to get it no matter what. Then he got injured and stopped working. No job for him= no on hand buyer for the SC. This happened after I paid for my TT kit in full, 1000ID injectors, pistons, rods, GTM fuel return kit, Elec boost controller, PTP turbo blankets, and a bunch of other s**t. Talk about a lesson learned:shakes head: I have thought about selling my parts i already bought back a few times because my stage 1.5 SC works great, but in the end I'll always be thinking about what could have been. I do have my limits as well, and I can fully understand where you are coming from. My best suggestion for the short is pick up another hobby or project until GTM finally delivers.

I don't understand when everyone says "I waited a year but then it was worth it". It's like ur ok with getting screwed over and are finding ways to apologize for it?
Wish I could tell my Amex bill the same thing.

stop being ok with what isn't right.

Valid point man.

Point is ur not getting screwed over your expectations are to high its a group buy for a massive amount of complicated to produce kits there are bound to be delays. OMFG they are taking as long as FI and they are making 5x the quantity. NO ONE would be upset if they hadn't said when they probably honestly thought they would be done.

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Like i said **** happens dude, it's tough but get real. I blew my motor in 2010 and it took nissan 2 months to ship a short block to my dealer. After taking 2 months to tell my they would replace it.

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I don't think it's the delays that are causing the tension, its the communication. The reason no one in the other threads is upset is because the vendor communicates with the masses.

Check out the pattern here. Everyone gets temperamental, GTM communicates, everyone is excited and forgiving. The problem is, GTM hasn't logged on to this forum in 11 days. Other vendors respond within hours at most.

If a vendor is hosting a group buy with a gross value well over half a million dollars, the least they could do is spend the 5 minutes required to update the customer. A very large portion of the customers would be content with the delays as long as they knew what was causing them and had some visibility to the process. I know multiple people personally that have backed out of this group buy and cited communication failures as the reason.

That was a little harsh on my part dont mean to offend anyone its my opinion and you certainly dont even have to read it.

I would say i hope GTM doesn't run into any more delays and they can ship on time with their new schedule as i am sure they are also upset things haven't gone to plan.

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I wish some of you stop acting as everyone should feel or have the same emotions as your selves. Everyone takes things in different strides.