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Originally Posted by dmh
Look...I'm just having fun.  I don't really care one way or the other. I am all in favor of standalones for race cars. How can I be clearer?  Yet, their use in a street car mystifies me.
What incorrect assumption or misinformation -- psychological?
Tuning a Lotus with EFI, Motec, and/or Autronics is not rocket science. My colleague has done a few 2ZZs before so may I/we comment? 
One interesting thing about EFI is that it has a picture of the PTG 4-door that is now owned by my friend. What is the interesting thing? PTG dumped EFI due to performance issues in favor of Motec. However, the picture stayed.
Here's my question(s): Does EFI market their ecu as street legal in the USA? Or, is using an EFI legal for the overwhelming vast majority of Lotus owners? (No, I don't work for the EFI legal department!) |
The systems can be revertred to "street mode" by simply reversing connections. What people do with thier cars is up tp them.
As for the MoTec v. EFI issue. I've personally used many standalone systems, including MoTec so I can compare from personal experience. Like many products there are some things EFI can do that MoTec cannot, and vice versa. PTG moved into MoTec because of a personal preference an engineer had with thier product (as far as I know from second hand info). What I do know from
first hand, literally working on the cars myself at my shop and at the track, is that the systems PTG sold to Anchor Racing worked perfectly fine. And when Anchor retired those cars were purchased by SW Racer's Grp and Muellerized and they continue to work fine currently. And bare in mind these systems are over 8 yrs old now. I know the politics of racing...i.e. to run a DP car in Grand Am now you have to use Bosch Motorsport ECUs per the rules. Does than mean that the teams running EFI and MoTec before they were forced to switch to Bosch relay the perception that MoTec and EFI are not good products...Obviously not, its simply politics.
It's a free world. We can all have our preferences, but let's not cloud facts with personal opinions.
Kris