Vishnu

[CPMaverick]

Just to continue the Vishnu discussion, I don't have any real reason to have anything against the guy but here's what I found from the SCC article. Where there was no Buschur car. I did not find prices for the respective packages, but the XS Engineering car is also on the stock turbo.

http://www.sportcompactcarweb.com/features/0406scc_evo45_z.jpg

[SK VR4]

holy craap the XS spooled FAST! only a couple hundred ROM behind stock.. and TONS more power. Looks to me, though like XS and the second one actually had mor area under the curve than the big dawg power maker, RRE.

I cant find vishnu in that mess of colors ;)

[CPMaverick]

The Vishnu is the one that peaks just 1 hp above the XS car, but takes way longer to get there and falls off faster. Also has that one little 'spike' at the end, a trademark off a good tuner. ;)

Anyway I'm open to see another side to the story, but I've read Vishnu's 'articles' and seen reviews and they seem overblown and he seems over his head.

[SK VR4]

crap, my post got deleted!

for that field of competitors, i know its a very close and competitive race but im wholly not impressed. im not saying i could do better, but there has to be a reason they put all those graphs together... so im gonna just say the area under the curve on the vishnu graph is kinda weak. Its also bumpy as heck.

Also, i guess RRE let off at like 6800??

[A418t81]

The XS car also had cams, etc.

Either way, it doesn't really matter. I have his hardware on my car without his maps. The dynoflash on my ECU is known to be a torque monster down low (which comparatively it is) and I've used the Xede to bring the high end in line w/ the low end.

I would agree for sure that he is not about midrange power. The custom tuned Vishnu evos I rode in didn't have the midrange my car does...even the other owners noted the difference.

Either way, Buschur makes great stuff, but he has problems with variability from product to product. Some people's exhausts fit with no problems, others are so badly off they ahve to be cut and welded. You see this from week to week. Same problem with his FMIC (which I will probably get).....some people's go right on, others spend hours tring to get it to fit and finally realize the bungs are lined up incorrectly or even the end tanks are offset.

[CPMaverick]

He doesn't make midrange power, yet he claims to be a road-racer type? A car with no midrange is a drag-oriented car.

Anyway, he always gets praised in the magazines, which by coincidence I'm sure ;) he writes articles in every once in awhile, and I think he's a middle of the pack tuner at best. Yet his stuff is high priced.

The hardware might be good. But his 'amazing tuning ability', Evo owners drooling all over him, and $1000 tuning sessions drive me nuts.

[A418t81]

He doesn't make midrange power, yet he claims to be a road-racer type? A car with no midrange is a drag-oriented car.

Anyway, he always gets praised in the magazines, which by coincidence I'm sure ;) he writes articles in every once in awhile, and I think he's a middle of the pack tuner at best. Yet his stuff is high priced.

The hardware might be good. But his 'amazing tuning ability', Evo owners drooling all over him, and $1000 tuning sessions drive me nuts.

Meh, Evo guys don't drool over him any more than they drool over any other respected tuner. And the his dyno sessions are free when you buy his Xede at one of his regional dyno events. The Xede is 895 whether you purchase it from his site or in person and have it tuned on the spot.

I personally bought mine used ;)