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I have no mods on my subby yet and was thinking of getting the ECU Reflashed but I didnt know if it would be a waste of money or not to get it flashed and then add mods. (didnt know if mods would affect how ECU needs to be flashed) I want to avoid paying to get my ECU reflashed, then getting other mods, then having to get my ECU reflashed to compensate for the new mods. Hope I havent confused you guys. Have heard horror stories about simialar situations and didnt know how true they where. Please help me out. Thanks in advance!

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iTrader: (4)

Depends on the route you are planning on taking. I would definitely recommend the ECU Reflash as a first mod, it's great. What you plan on doing later will prob determine what route you should go.

1. If you are wanting to go a custom route(ie. huge turbo, fmic, water injection), high HP, you'd probably be best served sticking to ECUTek or a user tunable ECU such as Utec or Exede. Their advantage is the fact that you can be tuned by an ECUTek dealer(or any tuner for the utec/xede) all over the country. But they have high RE-reflash costs, so it'd be best to wait till you get some mods to get the ECU.

If you plan on going with a pretty much standard upgrade path ie. Up-pipe, Turboback, maybe a bigger IHI Turbo. You would be well served by going with Cobb's Access ECU. Once their accessport comes out (supposed to be by March) you can download a map from their webstie and use that when you get a turboback, or other one of their supplied setups. So no RE-reflash costs. So you could get the ECU first without the additional costs down the road.