Not sure if this company is still actually in business or not? They seem to be producing and selling an existing product, but little else. Just wondering if Haltech is squeezing whatever they can out of the competitor turnip before tossing it into the bin. Because it sure seems like there is pretty much zero support for what exists or effort being put into anything else there. I can't even get a response or answer on a simple question within several days, other than the automated acknowledgment from when it was submitted. Was on the verge of purchasing another Modular ecu to replace a piggybacked Select, but am starting to question investing in a dead end street.
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That is a good question. I've been happy with the M2000's due to our lack of tuners/local shops.
Now that Shawn has switched his focus to Haltech, my next car will run a Nexus. I hate to do it, but there's such little support for Adaptronic now.
We all knew it would eventually happen, I was just hoping it would be after a new hardware release. There are still features I want from the M2000
that the Haltech has yet to implement.

 

No way would I buy an Adaptronic now. I have one that I previously installed and tuned, but if I were starting fresh I wouldn't shell out for something that has been abandoned.

 

I did finally receive a response to my submitted tech question last night.
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For what it’s worth I bought a brand new modular this year. Right from day one it never ran quite right. I thought it just needed professional tuning so I dropped the car at a shop. Immediately he told me something was fucked inside and logged the outputs. Every output was locked together ie. ignition triggers the cooling fan etc.

plugged in a haltech and all my problems went away…plugged the modular in another car at the shop and the symptoms followed. I will never buy another

 

+1. stay faar away from adaptronic crap. The features look nice on the website but most of them dont work and software is buggy.

 

She's dead, Jim.

This is what happens when Chip Shortages hit hard and Haltech even goes a step further with removing their entry level products.

 

so they sent out the notice and no surprise now that Haltech was bought out; 12 more months of Adaptronic warranty and tech support and then that’s all she wrote, folks.
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Damn. I haven't been on here in forever...and it seems like this whole crapdaptronic deal went pretty much exactly like I predicted it would years ago. Big thanks to those who pushed them so hard when the company was sinking were around to ensure we flooded the community full of faulty support-less products.

 

My adaptronic works pretty well, but I might be switching to a Motec M150 or Emtron KV8 next.

 

That's like Preschool vs. Doctorate Degree going from Adaptronic to either of these. Congratulations and both are amazing, top tier choices.

If you need any help for these, reach out.

 

Adaptronic is far more limited but I like the user interface and software more than Haltech. I have an M150 on my NSX and it would make more sense to stay with Motec but I have a KV8 on a 800hp Ford Godzilla powered Foxbody Mustang and the UI & performance for the price, I might go with the KV8 instead.

 

in my case being PnP on the RX8 chassis it was a bit less than 1/3 what a Haltech 2500 and harness adapter would cost, but that included WB02, DCMD, some repinning of the OE harness, etc.

so I don’t expect it to be pro level like MoTeC etc., but being PnP and mating up with the existing CAN, DBW, and such it’s kind of hard to beat for amateur autox etc. purposes.

even the old Select unit that came piggybacked on the factory ecu of my REW swapped RX8 does a reasonably decent job given it’s limitations. It’s suitable for most of us, but obviously a 700+ whp 13B is an entirely different scenario.

considering that many RX7 owners are still on older, less sophisticated systems and even less features then some comments might be taken with a few grains of salt …
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I think the real worry with them these days is the complete lack of support and the fact that the hardware itself is known to crap out at random...I'd opt for pretty much anything else regardless of display.

 

Let's see, just this month it's been ignition circuit on one in Florida and the entire ECU shutting down on one in Utah. Both amazing dudes fighting stupid problems.

There's one guy in Texas that has had his Rx8 ECU with a dead-after-repaired DBW Module that has made the car useless. I hate the unreliability.

​I may use Microtech and PFC for brake chocks, but Adaptronic will forever be in my heart as a "Told you so. Stop listening to idiot salesmen."

 

you sound like Ryan

 

glad it was somebody else for a change
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So very true. Those who lead that sales effort were very obviously out for their own gain and nothing more...and based on all the poor tuning I saw come with the units sold, were for sure idiot salesmen instead of true engine calibrators.

Ryan my sound like alot of things, but he isn't an idiot salesman. What he lacks in tact he makes up for in technical precision and detail.

I was just thinking about this thread as it came up somewhere else online today where people still considered this a viable option...which is hilarious.

 

does that mean you wouldn’t be up to (attempting to) tuning an Adaptronic in the future?

It’s not an FD version, but not entirely sure if that might impact the results differently or not.
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Sadly I don't really have the time to tune anymore between kids, work and general life responsibilities, as much as I would enjoy doing so. I'm old school when it comes to these things...I'd be open to maybe tuning an old select using Wari, but I hate and don't trust the stupid Eugene software ****. And I have a hard time thinking I'd put the level of detail that I do into an tune for an ECU that is likely to fail, would be a tremendous waste of time in my opinion.

Skeese

 

Already knowing your general feeling about Adaptronic, I wasn’t expecting a very positive response.

but having used both Wari and Eugene that isn’t my experience. Though as mentioned previously, it not being an FD3 configuration might be different in some way. Yet not entirely sure.
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