2016 Vintage Weekend

Burgermaster, Vintage Meet & VW Nationals

It was a great weekend of shows. Starting at Burgermaster for good conversation and burgers. Then to Vintage meet for the best Vintage VW's the PNW has to offer and finishing off the weekend at Pacific Raceways for the 2016 VW Nationals. I brought my car out and although it's slow I made it into the 3rd round of eliminations. Not bad after 4 years not racing!.

At Vintage you where greeted with a vast showing of Bus's of all varieties 

 and It brought out the best in town and then some!

On race day the show started to fill up early

During the races I was able to put The Dub Shop ECU to the test (MaxSFI) is what I'm going to call  it. It's about an hour and a half each way to the track. The first pass I made was an 18.009 and I wasn't able to back it up all day.


During test and tune, I made 3 passes. All going a little slower than the previous and I stopped at an 18.2X. I was trying to adjust the launch control for a nice launch but the little 1600 just wanted to bog down.

After a rush to the staging lanes for the start of Eliminations it was a quick 3 rounds. Although I was really consistent during the 3 rounds I lost due to my slow reaction times. I'm going to blame it on the loose suspension :). 

All in all a absolutely great weekend and next year hopefully I can bring a little more power to the track!

-Mario 

Are you ready?

My ECU went into Pre-Order status. I am expecting to start shipping mid May of 2016. I'm so stoked about these!

Pre-Order Info Here

I have been running mine for the past couple months now. During this time we have found a couple areas that could be improved and made changes before the production boards where made. These improvements include some indicator led's on the main board itself for visual reference of the comm channels and the main power input to aid in any troubleshooting and just to know power is getting in. The coil drivers where re-positioned to allow for better mounting to the case, and finally some adjustment to a couple traces on the bottom of the board to allow clearance at the main board mounting locations. I can't tell you how excited I am about this :)

One of the coolest parts about this ECU is the internal wideband controller. I installed this right beside the Innovate LC2 so I could get that side by side comparison. Come to find out it actually provides data just a bit faster than my LC2 is through the CAN buss using the Innovate serial chain. That was a great sight.

In the graph below you can see this. The Pink in the 3rd row is the internal wideband trace where the Red is the LS2. Green in the same row represents the average of the 02 sensors at the 4 ports. This sensor is also set to a lag of 100 which uses no filtering on the signal. If you look at the traces you can see it goes full lean quicker and it also starts reacting first to the reintroduction of fuel. One last thing to note it the long delay form the port mounted 02 sensors to the collector mounted sensors, about 1.5 seconds or 1500ms. You have to take this into account when using autotune (veal), otherwise you will be correcting the current cell for something that happened 1.5 seconds ago...

More info to come, if your interested in these here is the link to get in on the pre-order at a discounted rate!

The Dub Shop ECU

- Mario