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Originally Posted by gmonsen
Rotary Prophet... My obligations are to the users and not to the sellers on forums and so I apologize up front if you take umbrage at what I am going to say.
Anyone who has a 20b conversion done by a "back yard tuner" who does work to support his or her habit rather than by a full time reputable business have absolutely no right to complain whatsoever for anything that goes wrong. If the car isn't ever completed, costs way more than promised or blows up, that person has no right to complain here on this forum or anywhere else. The forums are littered with people who have gone to some unknown or less-well-known tuner and have had a bad experience.
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Fair enough, (and understandable!) but I don't consider myself a "back yard tuner"... how many of those own a shop and operate a private engine dyno? Besides that, I don't know about other people, (and it's certainly worthless to say it), but I take good care of my customers (Ask the guy who's motor I'm re-dynoing and recreating the harness on because of
his mis-installation... for free, no less.)
However, I do work a full time job, so in that sense I don't depend on my shop's income at all; it pays for itself, and for my projects, and that's about all I ask for.
As far as using a Megasquirt and only myself being able to work on it; that's not strictly true, Megasquirt tuning is standardized, but in the sense that most shops don't know anything about it, that is true, but most of the people I do work for favor the lower price tag. (It's actually often cheaper to wire in a Megasquirt for me than to replace a defective ECU with a used one).
Once I finish up the last bit if tuning on this motor, I'll try to get some pics up, and some pics of the motor installed, as well as some dyno sheets.