I don't want to be in the business of tuning ecus. All a daughterboard does is let you change the rom on the ecu. Tuning the rom is up to you, and thats what I want to see this forum talking about. I'd really like to see a set of public well-documented roms developed for all the common configurations. Its got a long way to go.
These are a cheap and easy way to get your toe in the water and try it out. Thats why I only sell these with flash roms and ZIF sockets, these really are about as simple an easy to use as I could make them. Besides an ecu w/daughterboard you also need a rom burner. I recommend the one from moates (
http://www.moates.net/product_info.p...products_id=48 ), its low cost ($85), USB, and easy to use. Having a consult box and a laptop helps too, and of course a wideband really is needed for real tuning, but you can start without them and play around. Play with a bone stock DE first, they're pretty damn tough and not near as expensive to replace. I've tried some pretty wild stuff on my stock daily driver and its pretty dang tough. You'd be surprised how lean you can make it and how much you can advance the timing and it keeps on kicking. YMMV and good mid-south gas goes a long way.
Look through the libraries, I've posted base roms for just about all the stock SR configurations (gtir, U12, U13), so if your using one of those its just like dropping in a stock ECU. I've got two customers with VE tunes, hopefully if those play out I'll start adding them to the library. More destails as that pans out.
I'm a whore for money too, if your a shop and want to buy in quantity or want something special I can do it. I can add your logo to boards or design somtheing special. I also do custom ecus that are really aimed for the professional tuner. Think real time tuning, no swapping roms, wideband 02 input, and hopefully soon adding additional sensors (think EGT, etc.). Thats significantly more money than most people are willing to spend though. As some of that stuff gets fleshed out it will trickle down, but thats probably a ways off.
