Moates Ostrich: Reviews Wanted

[M@]

What are your experiences with the Moates Ostrich? Anyone have good luck with it? Bad luck? Pros/Cons? Thanks for any info. :)

[ComputerJLT]

it's great...

it's how to use it for what it was made for is the hard part

[Toyz51]

It is great. If you do tune it off the Ostrich and then transfer the .bin to a chip, you will notice the same tune will run leaner on the chip than on the Ostrich, so keep that in mind.

[Weston]

It is great. If you do tune it off the Ostrich and then transfer the .bin to a chip, you will notice the same tune will run leaner on the chip than on the Ostrich, so keep that in mind.

Why? That doesn't make sense.

[Toyz51]

It doesn't make sense, when I first read about people having that issue on PGMFI, I thought the same thing. I ran my car off the Ostrich for a month or more. When I finally burned a chip for it on the dyno, sure enough, it leanded out some. For a fast easy solution, all I had to do was raise my fuel pressure 2 psi, made another run on our dyno and it came out fine. Every car I have done since has done the same thing, I just keep it in mind when tuning and tune rich and make sure to make sure things are still cool after buring the chip.

[Street_Kings]

Mine works 100% fine, and i sure as hell don't miss logging -> changing map -> shutting off -> pulling chip -> burning -> plugging chip back in -> starting car -> repeat a bajillion times.

Now its look, adjust, done.

I personally haven't seen any issues with the lean/rich some people are having, though. Have you checked your cable? The cable craig moates uses is kind of a piece, the 28 pin part of the cable likes to come loose and give a less than ideal connection between the cable and the pins.

If you're using CROME its kind of picky sometimes, hitting the wrong commands (like verify during a live tune session) will shut the car off for some reason, but that's a crome issue. Uber works fine, though blake is a whore and stopped working on it and blundy won't give me PGMFI sourceforge access for teh source =(

[ComputerJLT]

It is great. If you do tune it off the Ostrich and then transfer the .bin to a chip, you will notice the same tune will run leaner on the chip than on the Ostrich, so keep that in mind.

only a few people have had that problem; i've NEVER had that problem and i've tuned over a dozen cars on crome using my ostrich. I've yet to have to change any fuel parameters AFTER i've burnt a chip due to the car running richer or leaner on the chip than on the ostrich with the same software.

I think it has something to do more with the computer/burner combo than crome/ostrich/eprom combo.