Megasquirt talk (split from robokills project thread)

[NoHachi]

You are right Skassa..all those maps are excellently suited for the 4A-GE and make cruising/sudden acceleration etc a lot better and combine that with optimal fuel economy...
Sadly though..as soon as you start making significant changes, like for example the cams, most of the maps become useless. Tuning all of these maps takes huge amounts of engine-bench time..more then most people will want to spend..so your best off with a system that suits the amount of tuning you will put into it..The relative simplicty of the MS in those cases is an advantage.

All things put together, an MS is still lightyears ahead of any carb system and those run pretty damn good. Even the older vacuum-advance systems could be tweeked untill they eeked up to 150hp/l out of an engine. So for all out performance, the demands aren't that hard to meet..but For optimal driveability, superb streetmanners and all of that combined with fuel economy and low emissions..for that you'd need a more capable ecu and an army of engineers to tune it.

Luckily I know some of these engineers, so I didn't have to learn stuff by blowing engines up. ;-)