My approach
Your car is not my test bench
Changing an engine computer is serious work. This is what you can expect from me when I do it on your car.
I start by listening
You tell me the car, what has been done to it and what you want it to do. I tell you plainly whether I can do it, whether I have done it before, and what it will not do. If the honest answer is "not yet", that is the answer you get. You deal with me directly from the first message to the last: I am one engineer working by appointment, not a workshop with a front desk.
It can always go back to stock
Before anything is changed, I read your ECU and keep that original file untouched. Every change is made on a copy. If you ever want the car returned to how it left the factory, the original goes back on and the ECU is exactly as it was.
Nothing is tried out on your car
Every change is tested off the car before it is flashed, and checked against the version before it so that nothing which worked stops working. The development happens on my own cars, not on yours.
Protection comes with the power
When I add performance, I add the safeguards with it. On my own turbo car the boost backs off by itself if the engine knocks or the mixture goes lean, and there is a fixed upper limit it cannot pass.
I drive it and measure it
A change is not finished when it is flashed. I record the car on the road and judge the result from the recording, not from how it feels on one drive.
You are told what is finished and what is not
Every feature I offer carries its real status: driven, built or still in development. You can see that for yourself on my feature list. I do not quote numbers I have not measured.
Why you can check this for yourself
Everything on this site was built on cars I own. The turbo Civic in my case studies has more than a hundred versions and 81 recorded drives behind it. The paddle-shift Civic X was recorded on the road the day it was first driven.
Where something is unfinished, the page says so. I would sooner lose an enquiry than surprise a customer.
Ready to talk about your car?
Tell me the car, the engine, the gearbox and what you want it to do. I reply to every serious enquiry.