johnny2007

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hey guys just got my self a gems ecu for my uk 1998 impreza turbo and was wondering who you guys would recomend to map the gems as ive heard theyre a bit of a pain to map, cheers

wrx287

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Try Steve Simpson. I know he does Gems,he does the rally cars 07836 635001.

turboDean

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JGM does GEMS i was going to have mine done by him, but sold it on and went for the Simtek instead.

johnny2007

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out of interest how much did u sell it on for? that second time ive been told steve where is he based?

turboDean

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About £500 the same as i paid for it.

as Found on the GEMS website:
Steve Simpson Motorsport
Lancashire
Tel: 07836 635 001



BTW Steve is the guy behind Simtek.

johnny2007

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ok cheers buddy that ok i paid £300 for mine so quite happy with that now

turboDean

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Thats a good deal, you'll be looking at about the same for mapping

johnny2007

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ye jgm said around 300 tracktive want 550 plus vat still got to try bob rowle and steve, how come you changed to the simtek? i thought the gems was a good ecu?

turboDean

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Did some research on GEMS, on here and on 22B and found lots of people that had them weren't happy with the way the car drove with GEMS and lots with cold start issue's, apparantly the Simtek is a lot more advanced than the GEMS.
The Simtek has full duel mapping , which the GEMS doesn't and is supposed to have much better boost control, meaning i could loose my Apexi AVCR.
JGM offer us a good price on the Simtek as part of a GB so for what it would of cost me to have the GEMS fitted and mapped on top of the purchase cost think it only worked out £50 more expensive for me (this includes selling my AVCR as this was not need for the Simtek)

BTW don't think Bob R does GEMS.

johnny2007

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mmmm was going to buy a type ra off chris garner who use to have something to do with this and he was running a gems and said bob did map then, ill get my bro to give chris a call and check this out

turboDean

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Perhaps he did/does then

DannyBoy007

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Chris's old car was mapped steve simpson, remember when he came down and did it.

I also didn't think Bob mapped gems

johnny2007

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mmmmm was around 2 n half to 3 years ago now mind

GazTheHat

Is that still going?

turboDean

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No mate, that was about 6 months ago

Will probably be looking to get mine done again in the summer when i run out of Methanol, will be switching to E85 instead and adding some more boost

GazTheHat

What was the GB price?

Might be worth starting another early next year.

turboDean

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From Memory it was around £1K inculding Anti-lag and Laucnh control instead of the usual £1200.