A car I'm interested in is running a FuelTech FT450- I don't love standalones, and I've never heard of this one. Looks pretty cheap on their website which I'm not sure what to make of either. Anybody heard of these things, or better yet have experience with them?
They are pretty popular in the drag racing community, and some folks are going really fast on them. Can't speak to the unit itself, but the company seems pretty reliable and available (I think they are based in Georgia or near there?).
The quantity of outputs makes me worry that it is going to be limiting on how many items you can control. It says 10 general purpose outputs so you CAN run sequential injection but most likely will end up having to run batchfire. It looks to me like a Microsquirt with a screen.
Gimp (Forum Supporter) said:They are pretty popular in the drag racing community, and some folks are going really fast on them. Can't speak to the unit itself, but the company seems pretty reliable and available (I think they are based in Georgia or near there?).
Their US distributor is - Proline Racing is already big in the drag racing community as an engine builder. The electronics are made somewhere in South America.
There is no mention of it but it does not have barometric pressure compensation. So you are always fiddling with it.
Their main base/dyno/classroom is in Ball Ground GA. They build out of Brazil. They have a can bus I/O add on box if you need more inputs and outputs.
Overall, it's not a bad system, but it lacks robustness for me in both overall performance and components.
pretty popular with wankels these days. I have heard good things and they appear to be of high quality like a comparable haltech. just different interface like all standalones.
Fueltech is running 5000hp Promod's all over the world. I think it would be fine for anything any of us will will build.
Fueltech is based out of Brazil, Fueltech USA is based out of Ball Ground, GA like was previously mentioned. The owner of Proline Racing is also the owner of Fueltech USA, he is my best friend's brother.
A lot of drag racers run BigStuff3, too, but it is not the best for street driving. Different priorities. You could throw away 90% of the code in a decent streetable computer and drag race just fine, because you don't care about idle quality, tip-in response, cold start drivability, etc etc. All the stuff that takes an annoyingly long time to get right and makes people give up and spend $1000 with a tuner. Or $1000 on a carburetor.
Pete. (l33t FS) said:A lot of drag racers run BigStuff3,
Maybe in 2001.... Meaney still fixes them but everyone I know is either Haltech, FuelTech, or Holley. A few run a ms3pro but in sheer volume, the other 3 dwarf them.
Haltech claims the all in one with the nexus r5, but you can do the same with a Holley Dominator because it has like 60 I/o's, then if you run out you can can bus their I/O extender box in for another 10 or 15? Plus you can add in the pro 600 cdi ignition box for some real plug melting coil power because methanol.
In reply to Ranger50 :
Need to hang out with more Grand National people 
Every BS3 I have seen was in a GN. The rest were XFI or a Red Armstrong chip in the stock computer.
In reply to Pete. (l33t FS) :
That's because big stuff is/was the only option for the odd v6 sequence.
In reply to Ranger50 :
Turbo buicks are even fire. They stopped making oddfire V6s in 1977.
Now, the Chevy 90 degree V6s, those are either oddfire or slightly oddfire. Not sure about the new LT1 based V6, but the older ones had something like a 108/132 degree firing spacing.
Pete. (l33t FS) said:In reply to Ranger50 :
Turbo buicks are even fire. They stopped making oddfire V6s in 1977.
Now, the Chevy 90 degree V6s, those are either oddfire or slightly oddfire. Not sure about the new LT1 based V6, but the older ones had something like a 108/132 degree firing spacing.
We're far afield of the Fueltech discussion but the Chevy 4.3s are also even fire. Then they added a balance shaft, which may be the difference you're thinking of. There's a guy (Jost Performance) on the Buick forums who put that late LS/LT based V6 into his GN with a turbo. He chopped down a Holley Hi Ram intake for it, made headers.. the whole works. It is pretty cool!
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