Electric Cooling Fan Control: Defeating the Arch-Enemy of Your Engine

Heat, the silent adversary that can compromise even the most meticulously crafted racecar project. It’s a force that can undermine performance, compromise engine longevity, and turn the thrill of the track into a nightmare. But fear not, for in the battle against overheating, a powerful ally emerges: electric cooling fans, seamlessly integrated with cutting-edge engine management systems like the MegaSquirt line of ECUs and MSPNPs.

Injection Perfection: Choosing the RIGHT Fuel Injector

Discover how these tiny electromagnetic marvels have revolutionized fuel delivery, granting us the power to fine-tune engine performance like never before. Unravel the mathematics behind injector sizing, and learn how to select the perfect flow rate for your horsepower targets, ensuring your engine runs with efficiency and precision.

Is a Standalone ECU right for you?

Considering a standalone ECU? Whether you’re replacing the factory ECU in your track car, or ditching the carb in your classic cruiser, learn why now might be the time to make the switch and take control!

What is a PiDash? The RaspberryPi Digital Dash with TunerStudio

PiDash by Pahls Performance is a RaspberryPi based digital dashboard display that runs TunerStudio. In additional to allowing you to customize your dash and gauges, you can also tune your engine straight from the dash using a keyboard and mouse, or in some models touchscreen capabilities. The PiDash requires minor wiring for a 12v power…

Idle Hands do the devil’s work – Idle Tuning and Control

Greg Banish, Calibrated Success Idle tuning and control often seems to be an afterthought on some tuning projects. The devil’s work, it seems. Worse some try to do it too soon without nailing other important aspects of the calibration and get hellish results, only to curse the controller. Proper idle tuning and control can be…

Engine management made in the USA – or on your kitchen table

At DIYAutoTune, we believe in supporting local manufacturing, and when we need to outsource parts like Printed Circuit Boards, some of our wiring harnesses, or enclosures, we always keep production in the USA. AMPEFI MSPNP and MS3Pro Engine Control Units as well as DIYAutoTune’s other MegaSquirt assembled ECUs all have final assembly at our production…

An Open Letter from our Founder/CEO Jerry Hoffmann

15 years ago, I founded DIYAutoTune.com by merging a passion for technology (I was an IT guy) with a passion for racing (I was/am a car junkie).  I had $1200, a spare bedroom, and an idea. It has been a blessing of an opportunity and quite a ride.  DIYAutoTune has grown and evolved beyond what…

What is the difference between launch control and antilag?

Launch control and antilag are easily confused – both incorporate features that can help spool up a turbo, but they are intended for different applications. Launch control is intended to hold the engine at the right RPM, boost, and power output to get the fastest launch off a standing start without either bogging the engine…

DIYAutoTune’s ’86 MR2

Complete with AE101 4AGTE, T25 turbo Running: MSPNP Gen 2 plug and play ECU Innovate LC-1 / XD-16 combo (Standalone Gauge Kit) Note – the XD-16 has been replaced by the MTX-L, which puts the gauge and controller in a single package.   Updated 02/10/2007 –  Update with W2A Intercooler Install Bought ‘nearly new’ in…

MegaSquirt-3 with PCB V3.0 Kit

SKU: MS330-K

Included is a MegaSquirt-III Engine Management System w/PCB3.0 – Unassembled Kit Part # MS330-K This MS330-K kit includes everything you will need to build your MegaSquirt-3. The genuine B&G partial kit with V3.0 PCB, everything in the standard Bill Of Materials, the MS3 daughter board kit, the case, pre-machined endplates and heatsink bar, even the…

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