You’ve either heard the term ‘Wasted Spark Ignition’ or seen it in the Megasquirt ignition settings in TunerStudio, but sometimes the concept can be tricky to grasp. If you’re running an aftermarket engine management system however, it’s something you should make sure to understand and use to your advantage. What makes Wasted Spark better than…

Greg Banish, Calibrated Success Our gasoline (and ethanol flex fuel!) engines rely heavily upon their ignition system for proper operation. The process of making power begins with the spark inside the cylinder lighting off a chain reaction between fuel and air molecules that releases heat and increases cylinder pressure well beyond the normal compression work…

Hey folks, Jeff Linfert from Linfert Performance/Buras Motorsports here once again as a guest blogger. If you missed my first blog, we are a Megasquirt reseller, installer, and tuning shop in East Central Florida. Most of our customers road race, own Miatas or both but we will take on most anything. My partner Todd Buras…

Modernizing with a PNP DD-EFI Digital Dash for your Megasquirt ECU In most cases people decide to upgrade to a Megasquirt, MSPNP, or MS3Pro ECU due to either exceeding the capabilities or needing additional features that the stock system could not. The dash has the same issues, with all those inaccurate or broken stock clusters,…

Greg Banish, Calibrated Success Before we ever begin tuning our delivered air to fuel ratio in the engine, we have to make some decisions about fuel delivery and calibration. I will preface this with the usual requirement that we also have complete injector characterization data (flow rate, offsets vs voltage, short pulse nonlinearity compensation) before…

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…

What’s going on guys this is Frankie with DIYAutoTune and AMP EFI and today we’re going to go over another basic tech video. We’re going to go over tooth loggers, basically why we need them, how to record them, and basically how to read them on a basic level.

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…

TunerStudio and is comprehensive engine tuning software that allows users to modify and optimize the performance of MS3Pro and MSPNP Engine Management Systems as well as the MicroSquirt EMS (and our old school kit-style MegaSquirt systems as well) All of our standalone Engine Management Systems allow users to fully control the engine and ignition of…

The day is drawing near, when she asks you what you want for Christmas, and you aren’t quite sure what to say! At least I know that’s happened to me many times!

Be ready! Put your MSPNP, MS3Pro, MaxSpark, MicroSquirt and accessories on your Wish List, send it to your wife. Your mom. Your wife’s mom. Everyone that asks!!!

And then have something to be excited about under the tree Christmas morning!!