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I’ve had so much fun reading through this thread that I could’t resist making a couple of points myself
I take my hat off to Frank Lee who has good knowledge and a realistic attitude to mods. As anyone in the performance car market will tell you, “the warranty is only good until you open the bag”.
I sympathise with t vago who has “got off on the wrong foot” with the manner in which heihetech has presented his invention and who would not be sceptical about this sort of thing, especially when “butting heads” with an obviously commercially driven newbie, who has blatantly misused the forum for his own ends.
BUT – this thing will work.
Its not a new concept – most aftermarket traction control systems use this injector signal intervention method to limit hp and therefore tyre slip. It works seamlessly and without negative side effects. Installation is simple (insert unit in wiring loom between ECU and injector) and it can be switched on/off by driver at any time.
Cut tables (decision about number and order of injector interventions) are installer programmable by laptop – I’ve fitted loads and it’s a very smooth process.
If heihetech has done his design work correctly he will have included a user-definable scale of cut operation from 1cylinder-10%(of available pulses) up to 6 cylinders-30%. This should be linked to a TPS signal so during high power demand the system is disarmed. The unit should have been designed a single 12 cylinder unit and the installer activates the correct number of cylinders for the cars, that way you only make one box and reduce your production costs.
So well done heihetech but forget about that patent you’ll never get it. Any patent search will produce so much “prior art” that you will have nothing you can enforce, and its you money that you have to spend defending the patent against infringement – with little chance of success you may as well burn the money!
Hope this helps calm the waters
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