| as easy as it may seem. Of the tests that would be involved, you would need to find the upper limits of each ECU, where it pings, what makes it ping, what abilities it has to preserve the engine in these conditions. Just putting an ECU into a car and making pulls presents its own equalilty issues when just looking for power/torque/AF, much less finding a donor car that the owner will let you beat into detonation. Putting a car on the dyno, spinning it up and holding it at 4500RPM under full load with the dyno brake on and seeing how long it takes to ping or if at all, will tell volumes. If it does ping, at what point will it resolve itself, if at all. I've yet to see any tunes where people have properly configured the safety mappings. Which brings me to another test: Pull the O2 sensors, or the detonation sensor, and see what happens with cars running boost controllers. Do your comparo there too. The testing would be very long and very expensive to perform - each test over a period of time, with each ECU offered. Its just not as cut and dry as 'lets see which one makes the most power.' Which was my point. Based on what I saw with Boost Solultion's ECU, I changed nothing in my programs. I know my programs work and dont present any problems even under the harshest of conditions. Even when subjected to inclimate conditions, it will revert to a safer configuration to save the engine. This is also a reason none of my ECU's have destroyed any engines. The BS ECU has more advanced timing which accounts for their ~8HP gain over mine. Probably in the range of 3-4 degrees more, but I'm not going to go that far with my timing for ECU EPROMs. Its not worth the few extra HP to kill an engine running pump fuel just to look good on a dyno.
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