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Originally Posted by RETed
No warranty.
No service.
No tech support, unless you count on other enthusiasts who are trying to do the same thing, and you're counting on them to know more than you do.
Was that a serious question?
-Ted
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Do you have warranty and tech support on the motor you build, or the turbo you port the wastegate on?
I suppose there are different levels; people who build things, and people who buy and install things. You seem to be implying you're the latter; and that's fine. But if that's the case, you expect to pay more for that luxury. There are those of us out there who prefer to save the money, and do it ourselves. And given the fact that I can crank out a few Megasquirt ECUs for less than the price of most anything else out there, and that once built, nothing is ever likely to go bad (speaking as an embedded systems programmer on similar industrial solid state electronics), I'm not too concerned about a warranty, and as I have Google, I'm not to worried about tech support.
There are plenty of people out there who, even given the circumstances and available tools & materials, would never fabricate a part for their car. The Megasquirt is not for those people.
On a completely separate note, DIYAutoTune has released a kit designed to mount a Megasquirt into a stock S4 or S5 ECU case, and use the stock wiring harness... pretty much a PnP setup. I haven't played with one yet (mostly, I like replacing the stock harness with my own, much smaller and neater one), but it seems like there might be a market for these pre-built.