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Says $5900 on their site. The standalone ECU is interesting.

 

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I think the API kit may the best kit ever offered. EFR turbo, AEM plug and play stand alone, nice intercooler too.

Very exciting. I wonder which AEM ECU that is and how it connects? Does it just plug in? Do you have to move pins or worse yet re-pin the harness? Maybe there is an adapter?

 

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I've got 2 of their turbos with the ability to go from 11 lbs. to over 20 lbs. with a turn of the switch. 1 is on my wife's dune machine (18 lbs) and the other is on her trail and rock crawler that also sees some dune riding (11 lbs. for the trails and 16 in the dunes). The dune machine has their new clutch and it works great. The controller is set to adjust from Glamis to St. Antony with no adjustments required from us. No problems and the Borg Warner Turbo spools really quick. Pump gas at 11 lbs. and 110 for all the other setting's. So far they've worked well.

Dang, that thing will run 11psi on pump gas? Any internals needed?

I run mine 12 psi on pump but that's with 9:1 CP Pistons and pulled timing. If you don't it's just a grenade

 

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$2500 to modify a different turbo system to their standalone unit.

Ouch

 

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If you read about the infinity system it helps build a map quickly with 02 feedback. Its extremely smart compared to the pcv. So fuel mapping is no excuse for shrugging off customers who want to purchase the stand alone. Timing map maybe. Maybe theres no profit in selling the stand alone and therefore no interest. That was the impression i got, no interest in having a transaction at all. Too bad ALBA isnt selling this system, that would be a different story.

They only way they could build a map is with it on the car. And based on yours being a custom kit running e85, if your still on meth injection all changes the parameters. I'm sure the AEM infinity will build a map quickly but you need to have somewhat of a base to start and honestly if I were selling turbo kits with a standalone system with maps I built I wouldn't be selling it to competitor kits. Thats why I think API only sells it in their kit or on a stock machine because they already have the maps built.



This same issue is huge in the snowmobile market where turbo sleds are almost the norm now. Few companies make standalone kits, most use the dobeck, and those that make standalones hate messing with other companies kits because issues always arise. And it usually isn't profitable because if the map isn't spot on then they will receive a bunch of calls on whats going wrong which means sending map files back and forth, to pinpoint it.



IMO buying a complete turbo kit from a company also gives you the support of that company when issues arise and they build that support into their price for the kit.



The AEM infinity is available to anyone just like a PCV. But I bet you won't find many turbo companies selling you their pre-programmed PCV or even dobeck if you are running a different kit because it just equals headaches for them.



I guess I just wouldn't dog a company for not selling me a fuel controller for a homebuilt turbo when they produce a complete kit with a controller designed for that kit.

Lol if this were the case no one would run a stand alone ecu. The ONLY reason to buy from API was the plug and play harness. From what ive read the infinity builds a scratch base map to begin with. Read up on it.

Maybe they'd sell just the harness to avoid the tech support of the ECU?