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Old Jun 10, 2012 | 10:45 AM
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Here's a video showing some steps of the work did by Omar (Area 51) and Anderson (Fueltech Brazil) for tuning this car

From this video you can check how smooth is the Time/RPM based traction control when compared to AEM and other EMSs we have around and how the Gear Controller (flat shift module based on strain gage signal) works.
Really great.


I know a few numbers from this car but I think it would be better to have Rodolfo telling more about what they did and about the results they got.
All I can tell you is that this car improved a lot after this mod/tuning.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buw-A8Vs3j4
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Old Jun 10, 2012 | 10:51 AM
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Old Jun 10, 2012 | 10:56 AM
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Car sounds great, been seeing a lot of good cars coming from area 51....good luck fellas
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Old Jun 10, 2012 | 11:02 AM
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I miss my daddy
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Old Jun 10, 2012 | 11:09 AM
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^ how many daddys you have?

Looks good Rodolfo ,Omar and team. Cool bunch of guys. Hope to see it fly.
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Old Jun 10, 2012 | 12:39 PM
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A lot of em
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Old Jun 10, 2012 | 01:11 PM
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looking good homie!!! u coming down for the june24 event
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Old Jun 10, 2012 | 07:00 PM
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Nice stuff guys!! Good luck!
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Old Jun 10, 2012 | 07:02 PM
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looking good rodolfo and goodluck.
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Old Jun 10, 2012 | 08:33 PM
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sick! love the red Coupes!
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Old Jun 11, 2012 | 07:56 AM
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Congrats guys... I can't wait for this to make a full pass!!!

Great product, great guys & great project!


Fernando @ Kings Performance
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Old Jun 11, 2012 | 08:24 AM
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Congrats looking good
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Old Jun 11, 2012 | 12:43 PM
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What prices for fuel tech compared to aem / hondata / motec??
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Old Jun 11, 2012 | 06:21 PM
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THANKS GUYS..
WE ARE WORKING WITH MR. ANDERSON FROM FUEL TECH AND THE SUPPORT IS AMAZING..WE ARE TESTING SO MANY NEW THINGS FROM THIS COMPUTER AND LET ME TELL YOU THIS IS WORKING REAL GOOD..
Import DPS Pan American Nationals,HONDA DAY AND MIR THIS YEAR...
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Old Jun 12, 2012 | 04:37 AM
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Originally Posted by Pasghetti
What prices for fuel tech compared to aem / hondata / motec??
Talked to Anderson last night and got some prices.

The EMS module starts from $899 for FT200, going through $1199 for FT300 and $1799 for FT400, which is the top-of-the-line EMS we have here.
I have a FT400 @ home. If anybody wants, I can power it up and record a video showing a few things. Just let me know what you wanna see from that video.

But before we discuss prices, I think that makes more sense to go through
some guides/papers and find out what each module can really do.

I suggest you and all the other guys go to this link and get some more info about the procuts

http://www.fueltech.com.br/br/downloads/7


Here in Brazil almost all the racers are using a setup like this:

FT400 - $1799
PEAK AND HOLD INJ DRIVER 8A/2A - $269
SPARKPRO - 4 (indutive module for double or individual coils - 4cil) - $299
WIDE BAND O2 DATALOGGER (as we have a great internal DL runing on FT400, we use it just for O2 conditioning/additional sensors logging)- $ 649.00
BOOST CONTROLLER - $ 849.00

I missed the prices for the GearController, but I think it's something about $850-$950

Please feel free to ask me anything else you want to know about FT products.

BTW, I'm not a FT employee/partner or anything like that. I'm just a satisfacted racer trying to bring you some more info about those products.
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Old Jul 8, 2012 | 06:30 PM
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good dyno results so far..the pull was made in 3rd gear at 37psi..with low timing
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Old Jul 9, 2012 | 09:08 AM
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Nice numbers!

Any track #?
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