I am guessing some of y'all have heard about this one... he's supposed to be coming out with a WRX version soon. Basically, it tunes your fuel/timing constantly based on wideband O2 and knock feedback; supposed to give an amazing increase in driveability and the ability to adapt to and make the most of whatever you throw on the car. I guess you would need to specify stuff like injector sizing and whatnot, but if you get it in the ballpark (well, not even that close) it allegedly figures out how to give your car a perfect tune from there.... pretty sweet setup.
I saw $1420 for ECU including WB O2 sensor and stuff unless I am mistaken.. that's for an Evo. Here's the thread where I found a lot of info... http://forums.evolutionm.net/showthread.php?t=142221&page=1&pp=15 If it's really all that, $1420 isn't bad considering how much some people spend on getting their car re-tuned for various mods... this thing would adapt to a lot of stuff and keep your car in 'perfect' tune every day you're driving. Damn neat... like having a guy sit there and EcuTek tune your ride 24/7.
PS: some interesting stuff mentioned in that thread was adding like 30 ft-lbs torque at part throttle due to more aggressive timing and such... sounds like it'd really spiff up everyday driving.
And a thread on Cobb's forums: http://www.wrxforum.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=3;t=009156
interesting... a fully adaptive system... i'll have to read up on those links... definitely doable but u will probably have to enter a LOT of parameters and based on the number of variables and more importantly their relationships, it could be a very complicated program... also fully adaptive systems have certain drawbacks, especially if the function they need to optimize is not 'beautiful'
Uh yeah, sounds like the AEM too, nobody does it but you can use 02 sensor feedback on the AEM. I would imagine you are going to have to have the car tuned first and then the adaptive learning will take over. The tune I had on my mustang was like that somewhat, The tune had to be pretty close though for the whole feedback system to work. Matt