Knock off tuner....or not?

[Wild and Free]

Goes by the name of Raceme tuners. Seems they only support 07 and newer from my research and they do have delete software too. Looks to be a foreign co.

 

 

http://raceme.eu/, looks funny that they sell BBI injectors which begs the question of is it Smartys way of getting around some rules or is it a true copy cat company?  Seems to be suspicious.

http://www.racemetuners.com/

[AH64ID]

 Definitely not a knock off. But not "smarty" either 

[Wild and Free]

Funny how they mirror all of the different Smarty models. Just different decals on the same housing, although a lot of other tuners use the same plastic housing platform too..

[Me78569]

that is how smarty gets away with producing their delete stuff.   

 

I don't know how the structure is for the company, but it isn't a knock off.

[Wild and Free]

There is a thread on Smarty forum and they are tight lipped about it. Other than not our software and different entity which doesn't rule out same roof lol.

http://smartyresource.net/forum/showthread.php?926-RaceMe-ultra-programmer

What make me think is they say different entity but can still be the same father as the site sells BBI injectors as well.

Edited November 18, 2015 by Wild and Free

[Me78569]

It's their swiss "bank account" hahaha.,

[AH64ID]

41 minutes ago, Me78569 said:

that is how smarty gets away with producing their delete stuff.   

 

I don't know how the structure is for the company, but it isn't a knock off.

What I was trying to say without saying it :-) 

[CSM]

Neat.

[Mopar1973Man]

Like Starlite Diesel tuners is a EFI Live Tuner. Also for 07 and up. Possibly some thing cheap and easy to use for deleting out trucks. If for some reason EPA/CARB want to come back fining people I sure these little programmers can pull up business and move on without any impact to the mother company.

http://www.starlitediesel.com/

Edited November 18, 2015 by Mopar1973Man

[AH64ID]

52 minutes ago, Mopar1973Man said:

Like Starlite Diesel tuners is a EFI Live Tuner.

EFI Live offers no tune so you must use a tuner, of which there are many many tuners. There is no plug an play option from EFI Live for any vehicle and a 3rd party must be used if you don't want to tune yourself. 

RaceME is an overseas company provides the tune with their equipment and AFIK it is not customizable, at this point. 

 

Splitting hairs, but want to make sure the difference is clear. EFI Live is a tuning platform for many makes/models and RaceME is an overses company specializing in race products for the 6.7 Cummins in Dodge/Ram trucks. Starlight diesel is a 3rd party tuner that uses the EFI Live platform. A Starlight tune will be different than a ATP, SilverBullet, etc tune but a RaceME will be the same from anyone. 

[Mopar1973Man]

Like you said it splitting hairs. The Starlite diesel does provide a tune after you provide a stock tune back to them. Then the built the tune and email the zip file to you to finish the flash on your side. So Starlite is sold empty. I'm sure some where down the line its a method of evading the EPA/CARB rules. As for who actually owns the company we may never know.

 

[Cowboy]

Where's the "About us" page???????

 

[Wild and Free]

1 hour ago, Cowboy said:

Where's the "About us" page???????

 

Ha ha good catch, that Would be an interesting read.