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Wee run today over to the Isle of Gigha in the Inner Hebrides. Thought i was doing well at 300+ mls, but Obersalzburg trumps me 😄

That's what you call extreme kit car weight saving!

Awe brilliant, was there last year 👍 Are you going to Salzburg too? If so I'd recommend the Red Bull Hangar 7, some amazing machines in there. I also visited the Castle where they filmed 'Where Eagles Dare' a personal highlight for me.

Day 2. Brimham Rocks Fountain Abbey plus maintenance for damage from bad roads. Our cars have taken a bit of underside whacks today bit a lot of spirited driving. Drove through cow pat outside base carrot. Day 3 tomorrow plans are cold cuts quarry, marnham waterfalls , wensleydale cheese and ribble valley viaduct. More in depth details in next magazine.

Nice sunny evening last night and there were some very cool cars

And even better is that Emerald have their own rolling road..and even better is that they are not far from me!

Been there, you have my sympathy. Take it easy.

Looks really low and aggressive in the last photo, which I like! What’s your ride heights front and back?

Had my big toe nails removed.

Can also be referred as "buzzing out", many DMM's have a built in buzzer.

There's certainly esoteric ecus out there, but I always maintain that at *our level* it's the mapper more than the kit that you need to target. I don't really think there's any such thing as a bad ecu these days. You might want to choose the mapper first and go with whatever they feel is best for your engine and any future upgrades. If you wanted to go for high end stuff for an endurance racer or Paris-Dakar or just have money to burn then look to the old favourites eg Motec, Life Racing, Haltech etc .. at the other end is things like speeduino, megasquirt (in it's lower specs, ms3 is feature packed) etc. There's not a best ecu for kits as such, kits tend to have entry level ecus by default and all the low to mid price ecus will do what 99 percent of us need. I'm an emerald fanboy because I like the adaptive mapping, the triple separate maps, the boys and girls at emerald are fab, and the fact i've never had a genuine faulty ecu in 2 decades of using them. Don't overlook the quality of any aftermarket looms either, a good loom is crucial for reliability. Because of that I would prefer to purchase, have installed or the loom made, and mapped all by the same place. then there's only one person to blame if it doesn't work well, and one person to praise if it does! many mappers turn away home installed megasquirts for example because they just know the job is going to cause them sleepless nights ... ive seen ecus installed with scotchlock looms .. But as I say, choose a good known mapper first (be prepared to travel) , and then tell them what your current spec is and any future upgrades you're thinking of, and let them guide you what ecu to go with.

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As far as ECUs go, is there some kind of hierarchy as to some being better than others for kits?

I may come along if I get a chance, but probably just for the meet, if I do.

No, worries, it's not like we only see you once a year. Be still great to see you if you make it etc.

Just the chat and tyre kicking for us!

tracing each circuit wiring (using AVO meter) so i can do an adaptor loom to mate the emerald to the existing omex plug, saves me making a complete new loom.

What exactly does 'metering out' involve @joolz?

Guilty as charged, great roads and the views from the eagle nest were amazing.

It's an old omex500, so the K6plus gives me more features, nicer mapping (well I know the software better anyway) , adaptive (self learning) fuelling, and future proofing it for the next round of tuning upgrades. Plus I'm an emerald dealer so it doesn't seem fair to have my cars on anything else. my road westy is on MBE so that will get changed over at some point too.

Fab, are you dining or just socialising/kicking tyres? I'm eating at home.

Out of interest what’s the reason for the switch @joolz?

Now corrected, happy for you to use it in the magazines.

We will make the run over this evening. See you there Ian!

Great write up Mark, it would make a nice article for the magazine. Oh, and a minor correction, it was the Warwickshire Area Curbrough track day!