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I have heard that some of you were interested in what features that the ProEFI has to offer so here is a run down on it!!

12 Injector drivers - All with built in Injector drivers!! Perfect for a twin injector setup on the Supra!!

16 Coil Drivers - Yes 16!!! No more waste spark!!

32 Analog inputs!!! - There are 32 analog inputs which will be preconfigured for anything you want to do... I.E. plug in a fuel pressure sensor and it automatically activates the trims associated with it. Put a Nitrous pressure sensor on your car and the computer trims fuel accordingly to bottle pressure!! You can datalog everything imaginable!!

10 Low side driver outputs - You can configure these to do whatever you can imagine. Also these will all support 4+ amps each!!

Built in wideband!! - That says it all!!

True volumetric efficeincy - So things like injector and pressure changes don’t have to be calculated and multiple maps changed, it’s all done in the background by simply entering your injector size and base fuel pressure. Actually knowing the injector size and fuel pressure, this allows us to make instantanious feedback changes to things like fuel pressure not staying constant, without relying on the O2 sensor for delayed information. Changing fuel type is as simple as entering the stoichiametric ratio for the fuel used.

Fault coding – Check engine light will tell you fault codes to help diagnose problems. Actions can be assigned with the fault codes. I.E. low oil pressure triggers a fault code, and activates a low rpm limiter. O2 sensor faults will automatically turn off block learning and closed loop feedback. Also the fault codes will be the same as the original ECU!!!

Traction control – multiple comprehensive traction control strategies including defined wheel speed differential between driven and non-driven wheels.

True knock sensing capability with specific knock frequency detection based upon the specific engine being monitored.

Multiple failsafe conditions making it nearly impossible to damage your engine in the case of tuning errors or mechanical malfunctions. I.E. lean, and knock conditions can be used to turn off nitrous, shut down boost etc….

O.E.M. manufactured ECU’s – The ECU’s are built by an O.E. manufacturer, so all ecu are 100% tested for vibration, temperature, loading etc… BEFORE you install them into your vehicle. Pro EFI ECU’s are as reliable as the factory units you take out. No more being stranded on the side of the road, or waiting weeks or months to get and issue repaired with the confidence of rolling the dice.

Drive by wire capability!!

Nitrous control:

Up to 4 stages!!

Control by speed, time, gear etc.....

Just enter the number of jets, jet size and target a/f and it does the rest!!

Add a nitrous bottle pressure sensor and it adjusts accordingly to pressure!!

Unlike other ECU's, you can target different a/fs for Nitrous with this unit in closed loop, or open loop, since the computer is based soley on V.E. it doesn't rely on the O2 sensor for hitting the desired a/f ratio. It does this based upon volumetric efficiency and desired equivelency ratio. Therefore there is less work for the O2 to do in closed loop, eliminating the chance for lean spikes typical of running nitrous!!!!

Fuel pressure compensation:

With the simple addition of a fuel pressure sensor, the computer will monitor and compensate for various fuel pressure. Lets say that you have a pump that is tired and your fuel pressure is not rising 1-1 any more. The computer will know and add neccessary fuel. Also if the pressure really gets unstable causing the computer to add too much pulse width, it will trigger a check engine light. It can also be set to initiate fuel cut, turn off the boost control, shut off NOS and lower the rev limiter. These safe guards can be triggered by the fuel pressure alone, by O2 activity or a number of other things!!

Boost Control Strategies:

Will be able to utilize dual solenoids to control pressure to both the top and bottom ports on any wastegate. This will give you VERY accurate control!!

Will be able to control boost by speed.

Will be able to control boost by time. Therefore if you spin the tires, and the vehicle speed sensor puts the boost map into a zone for higher boost.... the computer will know that it is wrong and hold the boost down until a certain amount of time.

Will control boost based on traction control. Traction control will be based on wheel speed differential!!

This computer will also know what gear you are in by simply entering gear ratios from the service manual, rear end ratio and tire size!!

5 completely different boost maps available and controlled by a dash mounted switch!!

Lean condition safety features:

In the case of a lean condition under certain circumstances (IE load, time etc) the computer can be programmed to shut down nitrous, lower boost, initiate fuel cut, initiate a rev limiter for a programmed duration of time until safe conditions return. This can also then be programmed to throw a code and activate the check engine light.



Methanol Control

Sytem can control a methanol pump automatically varied pump speed bases on methanol requirements. Can also be implemented with other methanol systems to switch fuel and timing maps automatically. Complete fuel and timing control as well as boost levels automatically switched based on whether or not methanol is spraying.

Flex Fuel

By simply adding a flex fuel sensor, the ProEFI computer automatically adjust fuel and timing, as well as boost levels based on ethanol content in fuel!!

Multiple rev limiters.

Up to four rev limiters for launch, burn out, 2 step and main as well as separate boost control levels for each!!



Top 10 reasons why ProEFI is superior to other currently offered EMS systems


1. O.E.M. Factory tested, factory developed hardware.

- Honestly, who knows more about building electronics than someone like Continental/Motorola? They spend Billions of dollars in development of reliable electronics to meet and exceed the demands of the O.E. automobile manufactures. These demands are not just there for reliability, but LIABILITY, which is a lot more important. You can stand to have your car break down and have it towed, but it’s a lot more to take if those failures cause you bodily injury or death. The ProEFI ECU is the ONLY aftermarket ECU put through those strict standards. NONE of the other aftermarket ECU’s have to be able to pass these tests.

- The ECM is designed to meet automotive industry standard under hood environmental requirements for 12 volt and 24 volt systems, and also meets marine industry environmental requirements. Validation tests included extreme operating temperatures (-40° to +105° C), thermal shock, humidity, salt spray, salt fog, immersion, fluid resistance, mechanical shock, vibration, and EMC. It is the responsibility of the application engineer to assure that the application does not exceed the demonstrated capabilities of the unit; vibration or thermal. It may be necessary to perform additional tests to validate the unit in the application. 6.2 STORAGE TEMPERATURE: -40° to +125° C 6.3 OPERATING TEMPERATURE: -40° to +105° C 6.4 THERMAL SHOCK: -40° to +125° C transition within 10s for 500 cycles 6.5 FLUID RESISTANCE: Two stroke motor oil, Four stroke motor oil, Unleaded gasoline, ASTM Reference 'C' fuel 6.6 HUMIDITY RESISTANCE: 85% humidity at 85°C for 1000 hours of operation. 6.7 SALT FOG RESISTANCE: 1000 hours 6.8 IMMERSION: Submersible in 8% saltwater solution to 10' 6.9 MECHANICAL SHOCK: 50 hours of 50 g's 6.10 DROP: Random drop tests on concrete from 6' 6.11 VIBRATION: Engine mountable and tested to high-performance levels

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6.12 ABNORMAL SUPPLY VOLTAGE RESISTANCE:

Conditions Supply Voltage Time

Reverse Battery -24VDC 5 Minutes

Abnormal Alternator Output 36VDC 5 Minutes

Minimum Battery 6VDC Indef.

Put any one of our competitors through any of these tests = FAIL! Purchase new ecu, no warranty! We could stop right here, but let’s continue.

2. The ProEFI’s Engine control strategy is the culmination of years of O.E.M. research and development for the best, most accurate engine control strategies to meet strict Emissions requirements (don’t kid yourself, emissions requirements is what drives this technology!). ProEFI uses the latest state of the art Engine control strategy, while most of the competitors (including the Gold box) are using mid 80’s technology….look up tables for fuel and timing adjustments. This technology was ditched so fast by the O.E.’s most people never realized they used it. By 1984 Mass airflow sensors were being introduced in mass production cars in place of map sensor look up tables. Some of the O.E.’s began using true speed density systems around the same time. While the aftermarket likes to refer to their ecu’s as ‘Speed Density’ it really is not anywhere near the same thing.

- Volumetric Efficiency – This one is a no brainer to those that truly understand engines

i. Requires less work by the tuner! Once the basic setup is completed, most modern engines are quite well designed and with 4 valve pent roof cylinder heads flow pretty consistently across the board.

ii. Gives a lot more accuracy in the tune because the computer knows air flow (even in speed density) because it is calculated based upon the efficiency of the engines airflow, engine size, and Manifold pressure. The calculated airflow in Grams/sec is then compared against the target air/fuel (Desired Equivalency). The injector characterization lets the computer know EXACTLY how much fuel will be injected in grams/sec with a given injector opening. So for example a cylinder that is 100% efficient and is has 500cc of swept cylinder volume (displacement), the computer knows that there is 500cc’s of air in that cylinder. So if a mixture of say 10 to 1 is requested (not from O2 feedback) the computer will then inject 50cc’s of fuel. This is not “Theory” this is how the O.E.’s do speed density, it is as accurate as the information given it by the tuner. This eliminates COSTLY mistakes in tuning as well. Since one of the first things you do in the setup is enter your target a/f in the target air/fuel table, when you start making runs, by default, you can’t be too far off.

3. Engine position calculation

i. Engine position in the ProEFI is the same as the O.E.M.’s use. It is programmed in hard code, and therefore cannot be adjusted in calibration. This is so the engine position is calculated at the speed of the processor (56 MHz in the case of the 12, not foreground calibratable speed. The makes for a much more accurate calculation of engine speed, and you can easily see this when putting a timing light on the crank pulley and revving the engine. Rock solid timing like the stock computer had! This is a HUGE Deal!

4. Safety measures

i. All of the features in the ProEFI are tied in to what is called “Fault Management”. Fault Management is exactly what it sounds like. The tuner sets up fault conditions and the computer constantly monitors the sensors for faults. If a fault occurs the computer instantly compensates for those faults, saving your engine, and even possibly saving you from crashing your automobile.

1. Faults include but are not limited to

a. Lean condition

- Shut down Nitrous, boost, engage a rev limiter, turn on a check engine light, etc…

b. Over boost

c. Sensor faults

- Sensor faults will engage back up strategy to allow you to limp home if you will.

d. Nitrous fail safes

e. Oil Pressure

f. Radiator pressure…. Etc….

g. Drive By Wire

i. The ProEFI utilizes O.E.M. strategy and safeguards for controlling the Drive By Wire Throttle

- Failsafe are able to be set by the tuner in 4 Power limit modes

- For example – Engine temp is to high, limit power to 40%

- Electronic Throttle spring tests – Upon each shutdown event the tension of the Electronic Throttle return spring is tested to ensure proper working condition of the throttle before the next engine operation is performed.

- Of course sensor deviation fail safes to power limit modes.

- Check engine light for DBW failures

5. True Check Engine light with MIL Codes

- The ProEFI actually utilizes the check engine light to give fault codes for user feedback

- This obviously saves time and headaches

6. Override engine simulation

- This gets incredibly complex very quickly. In short, you can override ANY sensor, simulate the engine running, and test ALL outputs to help diagnose problems in coils, injectors, or any other ancillary device.

7. Built in peak and hold injector drivers for up to 12 injectors

- This just scratches the surface of the I/O of the Pro128

i. 12 injector drivers

ii. 16 EST coil drivers

iii. 34 analog inputs

iv. 10 Low side outputs 6amp capable

v. Dual wideband Lambda inputs

vi. Dual Channel knock control

vii. 3 H-bridge drivers for DBW, Stepper motor control etc..

viii. Tach Output

ix. 8 Digital inputs

x. 2 speed inputs

xi. 2 CAN 2.0 Channels

xii. Cam

xiii. Crank

xiv. And these aren’t unless this is used or that is used…..these are ALL available at ONCE!

8. Knock Control

- O.E.M. knock control strategy utilizing its own designated Knock Chip inside the ECU. This sole purpose of the knock chip is knock control, nothing else.

i. True bore size frequency based knock filtering

ii. Knock window filtering

iii. Individual cylinder based

9. Nitrous control

- Nitrous Control is actual airflow based

- Simply enter

- the jet size

- number of jets

- wet or dry kit

- Input nitrous pressure from a sensor or enter the default pressure used.

- Enter the target air fuel while nitrous is active

- Enter spark retard while nitrous is active

- Nitrous has 4 stages

- Can be active under conditions as well as time based triggers
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10. Launch Control and Traction control

a. Easy to use Launch control and traction control

- Launch control is time or Vehicle speed based

- Starts a timer from a clutch switch or transbrake input

a. Limits engine power to allow for maximum traction on bad tracks.

b. Traction control has several different settings

- Vehicle speed based – For automatic cars without differential wheel sensors

- Engine based acceleration per gear (6 speeds) – For manual Trans cars without differential wheel speed sensors, or All wheel drive cars.

- Driveshaft speed vs. time – for those crazy 10.5” tire 2000+hp cars that hang the front tires for 300’

- Differential Wheel speed – Control the slip between driven and non driven wheels.

11. Last, but not least

a. No repair issues

- Less down time

b. Save thousands over a remotely comparable system

- Take your family on a nice European vacation

- Buy an even bigger turbocharger!

- Buy new wheels and tires.

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see now, this is a real post unlike the awful ones from yesterday about this.
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So what does that system go for ? and i didnt see if it controls cams ?
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Originally Posted by RusWolf
So what does that system go for ? and i didnt see if it controls cams ?

Yes it can control the cams and the throttle body if you like. I am going to work up some pricing but because I am no longer a sponsor of this forum, I did not want to post pricing.


If you guys have ANY question, feel free to ask away. Honestly there is nothing that the ProEFI cannot do! It is the best system that I have ever used and I have used them all!! And the price is right!
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Let me ask you this, what kind of advantage this system has over Hydra EMS ?
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One question..

Is it PNP for scion tc!
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Originally Posted by RusWolf
Let me ask you this, what kind of advantage this system has over Hydra EMS ?

Well honestly I am not all that familiar with what the Hydra has to offer. Can it do drive by wire and the cam control? Can it do flex fuel with just the addition of a sensor? Methanol control with multiple fail safes. Self learning and is constantly updating its own maps. Wheel speed traction control? Exhaust back pressure compensation? Fuel pressure compensation? The knock control is frequency and time based just like all factory computers. Fully functioning check engine light with codes. Incredible boost control with dash mounted control. Launch control. Dash mounted can gauge that displays all data from sensors, operation parameters, instantaneous HP and many other things..... I can go on and on if you like.
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you just listing the specs again...

If you are not personally familiar with hydra then i guess its it can only be compared by paper..
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Originally Posted by ElevationTC
One question..

Is it PNP for scion tc!
yes they do have a pnp harness for the TC.
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sound....i need a standalone and you need some more reviews on the scion. i volunteer my self to get a free or half priced one and test it
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i wish Jason Siebels(owner of ProEFI) would join SL and explain to us about his item. Im running a ProEFI on my car right now, and all i can say is that i love the damn thing. I cant compare it to the AEM EMS or hydra because i never owned there units. But i believe Jason use to be one of the top technician for AEM but at the same time was developing his own standalone(dont quote me on this). But my Car runs like a beast and idles perfect in everyway im getting a cangage from him soon also which im going to replace my aem wideband with.
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Although it sounds interesting, how many shops have actually tuned it?

It's still not plug and play, just PNP harness. Still going to be around $2000 not including tuning and the harness to connect it. Needs to have VVT-I otherwise it won't be as useful as the upcoming Dezod standalone which they say it has and is true PNP.

When you going to show us some pics of this on the 5th fastest tC?

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Originally Posted by deathbyc4
Although it sounds interesting, how many shops have actually tuned it?

It's still not plug and play, just PNP harness. Still going to be around $2000 not including tuning and the harness to connect it. Needs to have VVT-I otherwise it won't be as useful as the upcoming Dezod standalone which they say it has and is true PNP.

When you going to show us some pics of this on the 5th fastest tC?


We can do it for MUCH less than the price you stated!! Just a tick more than half!!
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Any comparison charts? or a before and after tune on a customer's car?
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The thing is how many people know how to tune this management? And his doesn't control vvti?
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Originally Posted by Sound_Performance
We can do it for MUCH less than the price you stated!! Just a tick more than half!!

how much less? you can pm me the price and ill then post it since your not a sponsor anymore
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Originally Posted by deathbyc4
Any comparison charts? or a before and after tune on a customer's car?

The car was running a stock ECU with AFC before so you can imagine how poorly it ran, especially with the big cams!!
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Originally Posted by m6ar2cel6oTC
The thing is how many people know how to tune this management? And his doesn't control vvti?

It is no different than tuning any other system!! Any competent tuner could do it.


Whose doesnt control vvti?
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I love the ethanol detection! and CEL
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Sounds like a very nice system, i cant wait to see this in action. And oh i hope it has a plug and play version for tc.. no headache of hardwiring and experimenting on triggers, settings and stuff.

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Let me ask you this, what kind of advantage this system has over Hydra EMS ?
It seems to me that it has more options than the hydra. I know for sure hydra cant do flex fuel until the 2.7 comes out. Remember though that some of the features doesnt come out of the box, it does have some nice capabilities for a serious race car.
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