How many 458 Italias with original ecu and exhaust crackles?

Yes of course. We offer a 30 day satisfaction guarantee with our OFT. If you want to return it during that period, just flash the ECU back to stock and send back the OFT. We will refund the price of the OFT. The only thing that wouldn't be refunded is any shipping expenses (OFT, ECUs back and forth). To go back to stock, there is no need to ship the ECUs back to us. That can all be done at home.

As for something going wrong, it really depends what that something is. When tuning a car, there is always some risk all parties must be willing to accept. We certainly can't cover things like catastrophic engine failure or other misc damaged caused by mis-use, abuse or even just bad luck. We drive cars that aren't exactly 100% reliable so associating any future problem to an ECU tune isn't sound reasoning. Then again, I have spent most of my professional life tuning small displacing high horsepower turbo cars running 30+psi of boost. So I tend to be pretty careful even on engines that are far less stressed.

All my tune files are open to customers. So there is never any doubt as to what changes I'm making in the calibration. And the changes I make certainly are NOT changes that would threaten the integrity of the engine or transmission.

 

Awesome. Thanks!

 

Cat deletes and headers installed....wow. Video to come later today. But here's a sneak peek:
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Is that under load only or can you get flames on the downshifts too?

 

I'm seeing big flames during full throttle upshifts. And also some smaller flames during engine revving (in neutral). I'm sure there are flames during deceleration/downshifting as well. Pops and crackles are really loud without cats. Perhaps a little too loud for my tastes. I might have to make adjustments to the mapping to quiet them down and shorten their duration.

 

^^love it.

 

Wow! I predict that pretty soon you're going to be everyones best friend here.
Seriously, impressive.

 

As promised, here are a couple videos of my car (2010 Italia).

First video compares my 100% stock car (with factory ECU software update that eliminated burbles in back in 2012) to the same car with just our ECU flash tune (to restore the burbles):

https://youtu.be/Mbye5pgn938


This second video shows what happens when you add headers and cat deletes to our ECU tune (still using stock exhaust):

https://youtu.be/A2Yt0HoeQfs

I'll be doing similar videos with Mike's 2013 Spider that is being dropped off at the shop this week. I'll also be making some changes to the ECU tune in my car to reduce the volume and duration of the over-run burbles and pops (but still keep them of course). With no cats and our standard ECU tune, the sound and flames just attract too much attention. I'll post videos of that up as well.

 

... Perhaps you've heard this saying:

"If more is better, then too much is JUST RIGHT!"

 

I know it's all personal taste, but the car in those videos sounds awful to my ears. To induce backfire that loud, I would need to retard timing 10 deg during deceleration and increase the minimum injector on-time. Basically dump more fuel and retard the spark so that combustion occurs in the exhaust (instead of in the combustion chamber). All easy stuff to do, but is that really the sound that people want?

BTW, I have never heard an original ECU car sound anything like that. The few I have heard burble and crackle nicely during decel (just like my car does in the first video). But the car in your videos sounds like it has a leaky injector.

Here's a video of a stock 458 with original software (the video is from 2011). Start watching from the 38 seconds mark as he decelerates and downshifts. It burbles and crackles just like my car does with my ECU flash. It should, they share essentially the same mapping when it comes to deceleration/downshift conditions:
https://youtu.be/dO4nDvhmQ_g

 

I have to agree. This vid sounds like my 2010. The three vids claiming to be unflashed don't sound anything like my car, particularly the last red 458. Since my car sounds nothing like the vid of the flashed car (with silenced pops), I am more confident that mine is unflashed.

Also I really like the sound, when I arrive at a cars and coffee, there are a lot of very exotic cars but if I have a chance to back off when approaching the entrance, all heads turn.

 

YES!!! That is PRECISELY the sound that this person wants....

 

Thanks for verifying that. I've talked to the owner of a local exotic car rental company here and he also confirmed that their pre-update 458s (that he once had) sound nothing like the videos in the videos that 458trofeo posted.

Here's another video from 2012 that illustrates this: https://youtu.be/gwVlcgSUO0A
It's actually more muted that the video I posted because the exhaust valves in the original ECU software are closed during decel. But you can still near the burble (albeit more muffled).

Here are some other videos showing what original ECU 458 sounds like:
https://youtu.be/XTurbScHcqY (2009)
https://youtu.be/WWgiAxJy_4A (2009)

Nothing like the bangs and pops heard in 458trofeo's videos. And rightfully so, his videos demonstrate severe after-fire which, in small amounts, is harmless. In large amounts (as you hear in the video), it can potentially damage o2 sensors and catalysts depending on which point in the exhaust system the combustion occurs. While it is possible that car has original ECU software, it's unlikely that is the reason for the after-fire. My guess is that it also has a leaky injector or an exhaust leak (allowing oxygen to enter further upstream an initiate the combustion earlier.) Or maybe it's running on fuel with a different burn rate than standard pump gas.

Regardless, my goal was to restore (and improve upon by keeping the exhaust valves) the the burbles/crackles the original ECU calibration provided. If someone is looking for loud gun shot noises, they are looking for something quite different.

 

Here is a short video clip inside a 2010 Ferrari 458 Italia. I can verify with 100.0% CERTAINTY that this car has the ORIGINAL ECU, and original exhaust system:

https://youtu.be/eRgz87oGA1Q

If you listen carefully, you will hear gobs and gobs AND GOBS of low-rpm run-on.....

If the original exhaust system were replaced with the same exhaust system as 458Trofeo's car, and if the same 100 AKI fuel were added to this car, it is my opinion that this car would sound exactly the same as 458Trofeo's car...

Or, conversely, if 458Trofeo's car still had the original exhaust system, and was NOT running the 100 AKI fuel, his would sound exactly the same as the car in this video...

This is precisely the way I would want a tune from OpenFlash Performance to sound. It is 100% authentic to the original-ECU 2010/2011 458 Italia. A piece of history, that we're looking to (hopefully) re-create/preserve, through your tune....

Shiv, can you do it?? (I hope, I hope)

Thanks!!

 

Yes, that was exactly how my car sounded from inside the car when it had it's original headers/cats an our tune. Tons of over-run burble from 2000rpm to 5000rpm during decel. Not the gun shots in 458Trofeo's video.

 

Hmm, could you perhaps produce a video of your car in it's present form, except from inside the cabin? This may prove more helpful in evaluating the current sound, instead of having the microphone right by the exhaust... Maybe we're not getting the full effect/range of sounds being produced....