PRI 2015 Indianapolis. Great motor sport show and to big to see it all in 3 days.
I met some companies and people involved in diesel tuning and to my surprise there is a demand for a more flexible diesel engine management but as I was thinking US and Canada have it all covert for the pickup truck marked using mostly OE ECU and rewriting the code for it to make it work for motor sport. As I understand some use BOSCH motorsport setting you back over 10K US on cost I think?
I general I get good feedback on what is needed or wanted and most of them want data logging in combination with the possibility of making there own controls for fuel pumps or wastegate control for example not having to go back to the ECU supplier to get things done.
Having the possibility the build control stuff is very tempting but as I know it will take time and effort before all this new freedom will come to good use and I think we need to get working on local support on the diesel end of things.
Also get a load of questions on the Cummins QSB or ISB engines how to get more power out of them. Some take out the safety valve on the commonrail and bock off so they can run more fuel pressure and yes this works but can be very dangerous. I think using the XPI injection system from a QSL9 Tier 4 engine will give some options as I think this system is a lot the same as what we use on the race truck and is able to run over 2500Bar or 36259 PSI fuel rail pressure and even making 200Bar more fuel pressure give a load more torque less smoke and EGT as you get by extending injector duration.
Cummins QSL9. I have one coming as a next week job after overhaul testing.