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once again you are throwing money at an application which isn't needed.
Power commander USB $250 (tell people to shop around, not hard to find at this price brand new.)
Mechanical boost controller under $200
This puts you at exactly what is needed for a BASE/entry level kit. At $700 is would make sense to step up and buy something with more safeguards. But at nearly 3 times as much.....I wouldn't.
remember...entry level kit= under 270 hp. So odds are the owner will only need at most 2 stages of boost.[/QUOTE]
I agree that the BPD ECU is not for everyone. With a $250 power commander, you have no ignition control, and your fuel control is poor. With a $200 boost controller, all you can do is cap maximum boost. For people who are happy with that, there's no point to switching. And if entry level is all you're ever going to do, then there's no point in having room to grow. Remember, as you start hanging on more boxes to do your shift kill, nitrous, launch, etc. the financial side of the equation makes less sense. If spending an extra $1000 (over the bare minimum) to get the most out of a $10,000 plus motorcycle making 100HP more than stock is too much, I understand.
Every one of my customers so far has run with a Power Commander and some other form of boost control before coming to us, and these people are all seeing the benefit. No one has switched back.
We are also dealers for MOTEC, Pectel, AEM and EFI Technology ECUs, and eveything I'm saying applies to all these systems. The main reason I'm promoting the BPD here is that its the first stand-alone that's plug & play and cost competative with a PC usb and all the add-on boxes I typically see.
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Power commander USB $250 (tell people to shop around, not hard to find at this price brand new.)
Mechanical boost controller under $200
This puts you at exactly what is needed for a BASE/entry level kit. At $700 is would make sense to step up and buy something with more safeguards. But at nearly 3 times as much.....I wouldn't.
remember...entry level kit= under 270 hp. So odds are the owner will only need at most 2 stages of boost.[/QUOTE]
I agree that the BPD ECU is not for everyone. With a $250 power commander, you have no ignition control, and your fuel control is poor. With a $200 boost controller, all you can do is cap maximum boost. For people who are happy with that, there's no point to switching. And if entry level is all you're ever going to do, then there's no point in having room to grow. Remember, as you start hanging on more boxes to do your shift kill, nitrous, launch, etc. the financial side of the equation makes less sense. If spending an extra $1000 (over the bare minimum) to get the most out of a $10,000 plus motorcycle making 100HP more than stock is too much, I understand.
Every one of my customers so far has run with a Power Commander and some other form of boost control before coming to us, and these people are all seeing the benefit. No one has switched back.
We are also dealers for MOTEC, Pectel, AEM and EFI Technology ECUs, and eveything I'm saying applies to all these systems. The main reason I'm promoting the BPD here is that its the first stand-alone that's plug & play and cost competative with a PC usb and all the add-on boxes I typically see.
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