not sure yet!! but really looking to just get a daily beater and save up for a E92 M3 , but too soon to tell though

 

Well the only reason was still patient on this is because I was one of the customers that paid early and was sent the ECU already. I loved the extra power i felt; but the problem was it was throwing a cel, plus disable my cruise control. So I sent it back to Rodney to have it fixed. I told him it wasn't a rush cause I was leaving the country on deployment for 8 months. He promised me that it would be sent back by the time i returned to the states. I was able to stop in the thread every now and again to see the progress of the thread. But when I saw a lot of negativity, I was worried that my $1k was waisted.
I'm so disappointed because I saw the potential this made my car first hand. I even talked to a local tuner that said they would have no problems tuning the ECU as long as it was MS3 comparable. In fact they were anxious cause my car is the only TL they dynoed. But this is just so disappointed to me. Just tired of all the promises not being fulfilled.

Apologies for the long post; just wanted to vent too.

 

Disappointed to see this as well. Rodney seems to know what he is talking about, and was very confident he and the fab guy could mod his turbo kit to fit my j35 Accord motor. I was ready to go until I mentioned staying street legal and he said we'd need to hold off. At least he was honest about that, maybe he will work through the ECU issue.

 

Thanks Aaron...

tell me about it bro....this product had soo much potential and if he had done well to his customers and provided some support, it would have been such a hit !!!

 

A very interesting first post.

 

Although Rodney has been a disappointment that doesn't mean this project has to die.

bmeyer is setting up a site and will be looking for people to give their know how on things like this.

I'm on vacation for the next 2 weeks and plan to take out my MS3 and harness to map the harness and document the MS3 internals. I'm also planning on purchasing the new knock unit and realtime clock if the pins are still available.

 

^^^ Kurt, let me know if you need any help....am not installing my ECU until spring next year....

 

If Rodney was even half of a decent man, he would post something to quell his customers.

 

^^^ Sonnick the problem is, its been sooo long, i/we dont care if he post up here or not, i/we want our stuff....

coz there is nothing that he can post which will make us calm....that ship has sailed...he should have posted something 8 months back....

 

^ Truth. I was referring to him posting updates on your order(s). An apology would mean nothing at this point. In terms of communicaton, this guy is worse than LIPA lol.

 

Trying to get the most perf bang for my $, not a mechanic so I went to the web to see what enthusiasts are doing, that's when I saw mods on here from L's TL so I joined. Kept seeing J&R come up and saw people sucessfully using the turbo kit (ie libert69) so I called. Keeping the car street legal with his ECU became the sticking point and Rodney suggested we put off doing anything as he is currently working through the isssues. That is all I have.

 

Exactly. The project as a whole certainly has a lot of potential left in it. It just needs some knowledge transfer by some of the guys using it, and a few others willing to pave the way going forward. Which will happen, I promise you that. (Being a business owner has left me with a little less time than I was anticipating though.) By the way, if anyone has some technical insight on the topic, get in contact with me.

The unfortunate part is that because of Rodney, the whole concept of the MS3 ECU in the TL has such a bad reputation that newbies may never bite. Hopefully that will change when there's enough documentation for others to get started on their own though. It's really not difficult.

 

I am beyond thankful (to God, not Rodney) that I got my money back from this fiasco...especially since Hondata stepped up and is finally putting out Flashpro for the 07-08 TL...

 

Hey swoosh can you ask him to get my refund also. The amount of bad customer service i saw on this thread scared me away. I don't mean to be rude...I was very interested, spoke to him an everything over the phone awhile back (nice guy), even texted him, had the $ and just saw problems people were posting once they got ecu installed, plus the cust service declining...and just said F it

Thanks in advance

 

I don't think Anil is "in" like he was before...it was a thankless job.

 

Jiga....I havent spoken to him recently but when i last spoke to him (almost 2 months back) I did mentioned about all the pending orders, including yours....the sad part is he has no answers for anyone....

i really wish this GB went like the Supercomputer pedals/door sills GB that I had organized, it was perfect !!! orders came in, parts went out, everyone installed it and was happy....this seems like its on the exact opposite pole....

 

^i dont think you can really compare the 2 different products. they're completely different. SC stuff was just a fabbed up cookie cutter item that was easily made, bought, and shipped.

this JNR thing obviously was crooked from almost the beginning. looks like he either spent all our money, or never really had a game plan for all of this. it takes a lot of mistakes for something to crumble so badly...he had numerous chances to make things right and chose to ignore all of it.

 

A year to the day later, and so glad those Forgestars were calling my name. And I thought the two month wait on those was long. I'd probably still be empty handed had I gotten in on this GB.

Ah, the love for Rodney was so profound a year ago....lol.

 

Good digs, buddy.

 

Thread closed. Hondata time.

 

Gotta love the irony...unfortunately I was one of the poor souls who fell into the hype as well...

Couldn't have said it any better...no hype, no getting screwed over, just a quality product with real customer service...done and done...

 

so what are you guys saying? you weren't pleased with rodney's service?

 

Hondata/Kpro are the only name in tuning I remember from when I had my RSX. Not that I delved into that there either, but I heard plenty on it.

 

HONDATA in HONDA/ACURA Number #1 end of story....They make a product for your car do not look elsewhere!!!

 

Yeah, but no good news for us older heads (04-06).

 

can we please keep the Hondata talk in the 2 Hondata threads out there


Rodney text me this morning and told me he is ready to ship my pigtails....I hope he comes through....At this point he is Santa for me haha....

After this he still has to either give me a fuel pump or AFR gauge or Refund....

Feji/Justn/Mike/ have you guys gotten any response from him? Any updates from him?

 

^ I am getting the HONDATA

 

 

ordered it.... and I will make it work WITH the ms3x Nitrous control, baby!

 

damn....you running Hondata and MS3???

you fawking insane bro....

 

yessir

 

Oh, I was totally fine with it until he had my money. After that, it was all down hill. All of you guys should just be thankful it was <$2k. At one point he had over $10k of mine.

Funny how I got flamed for my Rodney bashing at that point, now everyone is freaking out over $1.5k. C'est la vie.

 

sorry, i forgot the red text on that one.

yeah i was on this last ECU GB and as soon as things started getting fishy i had to practically demand my ECU...i think i was one of the first ones from the GB to get it.

 

bmeyer: we got nothing against you....when we heard what you had to say and what rodney had to say, lets just say he was more convincing and ofcourse all of us were biased as we were giving a vendor 1400 bucks of our hard earned money....

Aaron, you were the 3rd to pay....and you got is before Justn/Feji others only because their harness was on back order....lucky def favored you in buying the ecu and more so in selling

 

anyone else experience code P0720 with the MS3....how to fix if anyone knows

 

Oh yeah...i never did come back with this.

It's a slipping clutch

It was a long process for me to figure it out, but makes perfect sense.

 

Thanks for the reply....... I changed my clutch just before I installed my MS3... Stock clutch.... But I didn't change my flywheel or resurfaced it.... Mechanic said it should been fine........I had about 175000km when I changed it so flywheel should be beat up.

When MS3 installed lights on..... When uninstalled no light..... I guess the MS3 add power which causes my clutch to slip.....time for CM/FW.....

 

Not sure how just installing it would trigger the code, it cannot sense potential increase in power????

 

My clutch was slipping like crazy on the stock clutch and with the MS3 installed I have never seen this code.

 

I was thinking that too...the computer wouldn't know how much of the created power was making it's way thru drivetrain to the wheels, right?!?

Just thinking out loud.