In today's world, a mechanics most important tools are no longer found in their toolbox. Just think, in the 1980's Top Fuel dragsters made about 2500 hp using a 500 cubic inch ( 8.2 Liter) Aluminum Hemi headed engine, as amazing as this might sound, today this same displacement and very similar looking hemi headed engines are making over 10,000 hp! Why? It is a matter of optimizing all aspects of the engine to improving efficiency. This demands the tools to gather data to understand what is happening inside the engine at the completely and identify opportunities to improve efficiency. Together TunerStudio and MegaLogViewer bring you the power to capture, view and analyze vehicle data as your engine produces it, then act upon it. These easy to use applications simplify making changes and even offer recommendations and automatic correction using data analytics at a level that is not offered by any other automotive tuning solutions.
Fuel Injection is as simple or complicated as the tools you use to work with it.
This sounds obvious, but is so often over looked when deciding what fuel injection controller to buy. It just doesn’t matter how good the fuel injection controller is if it has poor software for you to work with. Imagine you have the perfect after market fuel injection controller for your car, it has every option you ever see yourself needing, this Engine management System can control a 16 cylinder sequential injection engine with coil on plug ignition while managing a 6 speed automatic transmission. It does this with a monster 10GHz processor that can make every calculation perfect without even using a fraction of it’s resources. This is Great! BUT, think about it. It is only going to do what it is told to do by you as you set it up; And you can only do what you know by what you see the engine asking for.
The most important part of a fuel injection controller is you getting the information and being able to correct problems or take advantage of opportunities based on what YOUR engine is doing. Not reading about someone else’s engine, but getting the information directly from your engine, then having your engine information analyzed for problems, improvements and opportunities. This is just taking advantage of modern technology, yet it just doesn’t happen with the majority of fuel injection controllers available today at any price. You can spend $5000 on a fuel injection system and be left with unimaginably primitive software for you to see what it is doing or for you to correct it.
How does this happen you might ask? I know I did when I started looking at what was available from the majority of aftermarket EFI controllers, including some big names and what would otherwise be great products.The vast majority of aftermarket controllers have either extremely basic software or software that was designed by the guy who made the controller, so it all makes great sense to him after working with it day in and day out for hundreds or thousandsof hours. You don't want to waste those hours yourself, you want to tune your car! Even more often limitations have just been accepted when they didn’t need to be. So even those experts are stuck working with limited information. The development of high caliber tuning software is a very different process and skill set than the development of the controller itself.
Don’t fall victim to selecting a stand alone controller without heavily considering the tuning software you will have to work with. Before buying any fuel injection Controller:
Make sure the software can data log the information you need. It may mean every field you can think of or running a data log during an entire 3 hour rally race.
Check the user interface to be clean, simple to navigate and bug free. This is an area that commonly suffers and you see many cobbled together applications.
Make sure the software identifies problems and offers guidance
Make sure it runs on the computer you need it to run on.
Make sure it easily lets you review and adjust your tune while the car isn't around.
Is management of tune files easy?
Can you easily compare changes to the tune and settings at different points in time?
Compare the features of the software, whether it is dashboard display, data log capture and viewing, Auto tuning, diagnostics, etc.
Auto tuning is not a check box. Very few work. Yet a good auto tune can tune better than any human can.
Don’t for a second think that because you pay a premium price, you will get the premium software, it just doesn’t work that way. You should always try the software before you buy an EFI controller. Your fuel injection experience is only as simple as the software you use to interact with it.
If you and your PC side software can not clearly see and understand what your engine is doing, it will simply never run to potential.
MegaLogViewer is an application to view and graph all Megasquirt Log files, Buell . Or any delimited file for that matter. It will graph any field in your MegaSquirt(I, II, MSnS-Extra...) log file captured by TunerStudio, MegaTune or Palm based MS-Logger. MegaLogViewer allows you to add any fields to your log files, they will automatically be detected and available for view and display, no MegaLogViewer configuration changes needed. MegaLogViewer is user friendly application, you will find it to be very stable and work as you expect with a refined feel. To give you more power MegaLogViewer will analyze and tune your VE tables for you with VE Analysis. VE Analysis is built on a flexible Engine that performs multiple calculations on each log record that passes filtering criteria. No special configuration changes are needed to achieve accurate results.
MegaLogViewer is an application to view and graph all Megasquirt Log files, Buell . Or any delimited file for that matter. It will graph any field in your MegaSquirt(I, II, MSnS-Extra...) log file captured by TunerStudio, MegaTune or Palm based MS-Logger. MegaLogViewer allows you to add any fields to your log files, they will automatically be detected and available for view and display, no MegaLogViewer configuration changes needed.