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I'd highly reccomend these guys to anyone that is looking for a really good stand alone for their cars.  In my opinion this company sells a better product than Motec, Electromotive, Haltech, Autronic and SDS.  I do not have one personally installed on my car.  But the Formula SAE team I am on uses one, and we swear by it.  Customer support is there all the way, prices are great (better than SDS) and they are easy to tune with a wideband.

 

http://www.pe-ltd.com

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What FSAE team are you on?  I'm on the Univ. of Utah team.  That EMS looks like a nice product and the price is definately right, but I don't think I'd call it a better product than Motec.  Motec ECU's just have so many extra features it's crazy.  Launch control, traction control, boost control, programmable outputs that can control a transmission, etc.  It's crazy.

 

That said, I would never buy one myself unless it was the only product available that had the features I needed.  I don't much like the company, they like to rip you off.  Our FSAE team uses motec and they charged something like $500 for an additional 8 MB of datalogging memory!  Now the kicker is that they don't even install additional hardware.  They simply reprogram the processor to ALLOW you access to more of YOUR existing memory!  Talk about a con act.

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Hmm, I thought the price was on par with SDS but it's been awhile since I've looked. I like the fact that it's actually a USA company. Almost ever aftermarket ECU  available is from either Canada (SDS) or Austrailia.

 

According to the user manual the ECU is able to fire up to 2 coils. You can either set it up with a coil/distributor or buy aftermarket coil packs (4-cyl. engines only) and have the ECU fire them.

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It does not come with coil packs, its pretty well set up to work with just about any sensor that comes on the car from what I understand.  I guess the price is just about on par with SDS after you buy the crank trigger wheel and the map sensor and coils.  I am going to use this product on my daily driver when I go with my individual throttle body setup and a huge turbo (gt40).
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If you're going to use it to drive wasted spark, the Ford EDIS 4 coil pack is around $60 from ACCELL or MSD.  It seems to be a good setup if you don't mind the odd-ball coil boots.  Or look at GM's two-tower coil packs.
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I am on the university of new hampshire FSAE team (first year for the team last year) we used the PE and were more than happy with it.  THe customer service was outstanding and the software wsa super easy to use.  we are using it again this year.  I had already ordered thte Hawk before i was familiar with PE or I probly would've used that.... anyone wanna by a brand new Hawk EC21

 

Chris

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Thanks for all of the nice words. I am one of the founders of Performance Electronics, Ltd. and I'd be happy to answer any questions that you have. Also, as a small company we are always looking for ways to improve our system. If you have any suggestions, please feel free to contact me.

 

Brian Lewis

brian@pe-ltd.com

 

P.S. We are completely revamping our site with lots more pictures as one of the previous posts suggests.

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holley knows as much about fuel injection as does RC about carborators. i wouldn't use anything from them, especially something thats not related to an american v8.

 

LOL I not sure about that but there is not any diff from a v8 to a 4cly in the way a the inection works and they have been making fuel Injetion stuff for many Years Inclueing injectors as well.

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Thanks for all of the nice words. I am one of the founders of Performance Electronics, Ltd. and I'd be happy to answer any questions that you have. Also, as a small company we are always looking for ways to improve our system. If you have any suggestions, please feel free to contact me.

 

Brian Lewis

brian@pe-ltd.com

 

P.S. We are completely revamping our site with lots more pictures as one of the previous posts suggests.

 

Denver has been bragging about your products and customer service.  His great words about it has made me want to use one on my personal car.  I will make sure to order one as the next evolution of my car.  Now I just need to get some money  :-/

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I have the commander 950 to go into my car.  really complete and great directions.  no experience with it yet but I will be making a website for my buildup.  as soon as it begins i will post links on the forum.  

 

Kane

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