robyota

My post wasn't directed at you, and yeah I know rds, so what? I guess I felt I had to state the obvious about what a Megasquirt was.. much like you did when when you pointed out engine detonation shouldn't be happening no matter what gear the car is in. I never claimed to be an expert, but tuning an engine isn't exactly experimental nuclear physics. All I said was that people telling him to go pay for a "proper tune" are missing the point - this is a DIY effort. Maybe instead of being so smug and talking down to people, you could offer some tips and pointers that you've picked up over the course of your 22 years tuning. Can't really blame you for trying to protect your source of income though.. It's just a real pity it gets in the way of sharing information

Interesting you say that you love the thread when you don't seem to have read it.. The engine isn't running any boost, it's NA and he's in the process of giving it a "proper tune" using a wideband o2 sensor. This is the same tool that dyno shops use. He is asking if anyone has a copy of a M50 spark map, so he can use this information to make some educated adjustments to his own tune which, like he says, is already running quite well using a Megasquirt - a DIY-Kitset Engine Management System - with no "professional" tuning whatsoever. The prevailing attitude here seems to be that tuning a car is a task beyond comprehension, and can only be achieved by paying mystical engine-wizards who are the only ones capable of understanding how an engine works. This is both funny and sad at the same time. All these ignorant people who feel the need to tell rds that he's "going to blow his engine up" or that he should "just pay for a tune" can just go home now, obviously the topic of conversation here is way over their heads.