AP vs Standback

why would it be their way of making more money when the software they are going to offer is going to be free? also see my post above yours.

COBB - "hey, we are going to sell a tuning solution that you can control, we tell you what is best for your car, and we don't want you to have the software to tune your car or even have a professional tune your car until we are done selling the product. And than, after the Mazdaspeed3 is discountinued, we are going to give everyone the software to tune yourself"

so basically they make all their money first and tell you it has all these gains in HP and than once they are done, they will give away the software.

look, I don't have anything against products, when I see the best thing out, I buy it, if COBB made a better product, I would buy it, but the fact is I have been dissappointed by their products and so have many other people, and on top of that, their bad business ethics makes it even worse.

I am not knocking everyone that has COBB products, if that is was you like, than you should buy it, but it's the COBB fanboys that just say that everything COBB makes is the best thing, that gets on my nerves.
 
you retard. The software for the subarus just came out like 2 months ago. Its taking them time. Its not some crazy little stunt their pulling. Look at all the discrepensies in your post... Stop posting!!
 
"no meth on either run"
"loosh borrowed someone elses AP"\
"the best of one tunings vs another"
what claimed hp that cobb made are you referring to?
it's a known fact that standbacks don't always do well in different weather conditions. It modifies what the ecu says, regardless of temp, so if you tell it to do something, it'll do what you tell it without questioning if it needs to do something is in 0degree weather or 100 degree weather.
Cobb is far from done with the speed3, they have a LOT of stuff still coming.
the subaru's and mitsubishi's are completely different cars than the ms3 and ms6, it requires completely different software, so it takes time. It took the software for the subaru's and mitsubishis a LONG time after the version2.0 accessport to come out, it'll be the same with the ms3/6.

"we dont sell you the self tuning software until we are done selling the product" what the hell does that even mean?
They said from the beginning that it'll come out, but not at official release. They are far from done selling AP's.

"but it's the COBB fanboys that just say that everything COBB makes is the best thing" how many times in this thread have we said that anything cobb makes is better than anything cp-e makes? Now look at the times you've said that cpe makes better stuff than cobb.


Is that enough for you?
 
face it alexsered you don't know what the hell you are talking about. the speed6 is already out of production and yet they just came out with the AP. doesn't seem to follow your scheme of screwing anyone over now does it?
 
face it alexsered you don't know what the hell you are talking about. the speed6 is already out of production and yet they just came out with the AP. doesn't seem to follow your scheme of screwing anyone over now does it?


+1
I completely forgot about that, Thank you bova.
 
Don't bother with Palerider guys, he is a CPE Rep with a vested interest in CPE. Laloosh also has a vested interest in CPE but he is not a rep, just sponsored.

I said it before I will say it again. You don't get Microsoft to do a comparison between Windows and a Mac and expect a fair un-biased result.

Someone before mentioned that the AP will be a better tuning solution once the Protune/Steet Tune is released. This is 100% true.

Another truth is the AP is a better solution now (with the 103 Maps) because out of the box it will provide a very nice increase for anyone without tuning. The SB needs to be tuned unless you simply want a $550 MBC.

The AP - 103 Maps rock. Plug and Play. No wires to cut/splice, no tuning require to benefit from the AP. A flash is always better than a SB as the ECU is still in total control and not lied too. Thresholds are change within the ECU, not false information sent to the ECU.

Standback - Wires need to be cut/spliced or a $300+ harness needs to be purchased in addition to the SB. Tuning is required which 99% of the people will need to have professionally done unless you know someone who has experience with the SB and tuning.

Standbacks don't change anything, they simply lie to the ECU thus if there is a problem that the ECU would normally pickup, it might not and POP There goes the Dynamite!

The only thing the SB will do that the AP will not do after the Tuning software is released, is control an external 5v system like Meth.

So in a nut shell, if you need professional tuning now then the SB is for you. If you run an External 5v source the SB is for you. Otherwise the AP is fine and only going to get better.

If memory serves the SB was a total POS for the first year of it's release. Just ask Laloosh. Lord knows he threw an ever loving fit and swore CPE off as the worst company in the car business. Now look at him, he has a set of Gold Plated Knee Pads to blow CPE with and Kevlar grease lip balm with Palerider there to hold his hair out of the way :)
 
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you know what bravnik.... kiss my ass.

who cares if i have a "vested interest" in cpe. i made a conscious choice for clear reasons. reasons ive shared, and others may enjoy "listening to". It doesnt mean anybody has to agree. i dont demand that. thats not the point. the reason the standback was trashed then is the same reason it is now. timid ricer fanboys.... intimidated by their cars..that like the ap because you stick it in obd and then your car goes fast.... actually being able to tune a car is "scary"... and "bad". cobb is cool. loosh admits now he was wrong on the standback and hes become an expert in tuning with it. the tool wasnt flawed... we just were just less experienced with it than we are now. Ive ALWAYS thought it was great. But i looked forward to the AP as well. i never thought it would be the way it is.

ive got a standback... ive got an AP... ive talked with everybody directly in cobb.... christian dozens of times. i talk to haltech vritually every day, hes a good friend, and keeps me very updated, as i do him.... you know how connected i am with cpe. well im virtually as connected to cobb as well. that is MY role in this community. haltech too. between the two of us there isnt hardly ANYTHING we havent been involved in. the fact we fall on the other sides of the fence makes us VERY worth listening to.

Dont tell these people not to listen to me. They may not have to AGREE with me.... but when your little punk ass starts talking about me sucking dicks in this argument.... it ticks me off a little.

well there it is.... after 4 posts and 6 months, i guess im done with this forum again. mr smartass tuf guy can say what he wants over here. try that post on the other forum and watch what happens.
 
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you know what bravnik.... kiss my ass.

who cares if i have a "vested interest" in cpe. i made a conscious choice for clear reasons. reasons ive shared, and others may enjoy "listening to". It doesnt mean anybody has to agree. i dont demand that. thats not the point. the reason the standback was trashed then is the same reason it is now. timid ricer fanboys.... intimidated by their cars..that like the ap because you stick it in obd and then your car goes fast.... actually being able to tune a car is "scary"... and "bad". cobb is cool. loosh admits now he was wrong on the standback and hes become an expert in tuning with it. the tool wasnt flawed... we just were just less experienced with it than we are now. Ive ALWAYS thought it was great. But i looked forward to the AP as well. i never thought it would be the way it is.

ive got a standback... ive got an AP... ive talked with everybody directly in cobb.... christian dozens of times. i talk to haltech vritually every day, hes a good friend, and keeps me very updated, as i do him.... you know how connected i am with cpe. well im virtually as connected to cobb as well. that is MY role in this community. haltech too. between the two of us there isnt hardly ANYTHING we havent been involved in. the fact we fall on the other sides of the fence makes us VERY worth listening to.

Dont tell these people not to listen to me. They may not have to AGREE with me.... but when your little punk ass starts talking about me sucking dicks in this argument.... it ticks me off a little.

well there it is.... after 4 posts and 6 months, i guess im done with this forum again. mr smartass tuf guy can say what he wants over here. try that post on the other forum and watch what happens.

I have quoted a couple items to address.

The SB sucked because it was not fully ready and had bugs/issues and people didn't know really how to tune it yet. Laloosh tried, screamed so loud how bad it sucked, made fun of CPE, said it was junk and the company sucked. Sound Familure? Laloosh was one of those RICER FANBOI's himself. He changed his mind only after he really needed a tuning solution and V2 came out.

We were less experienced - Wow really? The AP is OTS and not even tunable yet. There are what? 2 or 3 people with ANY experience with the Cobb AP? Let the tuning software come out, people get some experience using it and watch what happens. Slamming the AP as a POS now only shows me and everyone else that you didn't learn from your mistake with the SB. Instead of slamming it saying it SUCKs like a 10 year old, you should be mature and say things like "Well the SB was not all that great till V2 and we got some experience with it, hang in there guys and wait. I'm sure the AP will mature and become a very good tuning solution soon" but you don't. You take the Low road vice the High road man. You, Laloosh and your other CPE buds.

Don't tell people not to listen to me - I'm sorry, but I will tell people NOT to listen to someone who is BIASED towards their own stuff and not give an honest answer. The difference between you and I (and Laloosh) is that I will give a 100% HONEST answer. I'm not biased towards any one product or company. I don't have a vested interest in anything but people getting the right information in an un-biased manor.

You guys are slamming the AP before it is even a valid product. Comparing it too a product that's been on the market for almost 2 years now and it is JUST NOW becoming a valid tool as people really learn to tune with it.

Oh and I have no problem coming to the OTHER forum and saying the exact same things. I have nothing to fear from you or anyone over there. I speak truth and not BS bro.
 
"no meth on either run"
"loosh borrowed someone elses AP"\
"the best of one tunings vs another"
what claimed hp that cobb made are you referring to?
it's a known fact that standbacks don't always do well in different weather conditions. It modifies what the ecu says, regardless of temp, so if you tell it to do something, it'll do what you tell it without questioning if it needs to do something is in 0degree weather or 100 degree weather.
Cobb is far from done with the speed3, they have a LOT of stuff still coming.
the subaru's and mitsubishi's are completely different cars than the ms3 and ms6, it requires completely different software, so it takes time. It took the software for the subaru's and mitsubishis a LONG time after the version2.0 accessport to come out, it'll be the same with the ms3/6.

"we dont sell you the self tuning software until we are done selling the product" what the hell does that even mean?
They said from the beginning that it'll come out, but not at official release. They are far from done selling AP's.

"but it's the COBB fanboys that just say that everything COBB makes is the best thing" how many times in this thread have we said that anything cobb makes is better than anything cp-e makes? Now look at the times you've said that cpe makes better stuff than cobb.



Is that enough for you?

I love how you cut things out to make yourself look better (cool)

My exact words was no meth was used AS FAR AS I KNOW.
And anybody that thinks the AP is best at tunning must be kind of slow in your head. If you want to reduce your timing, or increase some boost, how exactly are you goning to do it with the AP right now? And yes, I said the best RIGHT NOW.
And COBB claimed that the AP has all this potential to have all these gains in hp and all these numbers were thrown around, but now all they claim are percentage gains. What exactly are those percentages based off of? Is it supposed to be my car without the AP and than I'm supposed to see those percentage gains? Thats what people are complaining about, those percentage gains have not even been close so far. Yes, could be quirks, but don't lie to everyone and say their car will come close to those percentage gains.

And what is it that you keep talking about the known fact that the standback doesn't do well in bad weather??? The standback doesn't minipulate the temperature reading from the MAF, and its a known fact that ALL mazdaspeed3 have a temper in bad weather such as really cold weather conditions.

Look, it seems like you are definatly a COBB fanboy, I have a record on my posts when i first bought my car doing my research on all the parts I have, I didn't even know about CP-E. I did the research, I talked to people, I bought the best product I possibly could, because everything I buy I want to last. The AP is not the best tuning solution out, maybe in the future they will be as flexible as the standback, but RIGHT NOW it doesn't compare, and the numbers on the dyno's speak for themselves. And I'm not just talking about laloosh.

There is no descrepensies with what I am saying, I buy the best thing out, and I don't stand by a brand because I like a brand! I was a big Nissan and Stillen fan, and now I bought a MS3 a while ago and am buying the best product, which happens to be CP-E, even if that means I pay more.

I have no reason to be biased, I'm not tied to any company, and I have a record of doing my research on the forums on all the companies. Now if you can just open your eyes and look at all the companies unbiasedly, maybe you might buy a product that is NOT from COBB. sheesh.
 
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do you know how beta products work? it is that cobb has chosen to allow the end user in on their beta product so they can finalize it with all the user input they can, which means there are going to be issues that arrise. the whole point of being in beta is to work out the kinks, so of course the precious standback which is on its 2nd version and might i add had numerous problems in version 1 and still some in version 2, is going to possibly be better.
 
I love how you cut things out to make yourself look better (cool)

My exact words was no meth was used AS FAR AS I KNOW.
And anybody that thinks the AP is best at tunning must be kind of slow in your head. If you want to reduce your timing, or increase some boost, how exactly are you goning to do it with the AP right now? And yes, I said the best RIGHT NOW.
And COBB claimed that the AP has all this potential to have all these gains in hp and all these numbers were thrown around, but now all they claim are percentage gains. What exactly are those percentages based off of? Is it supposed to be my car without the AP and than I'm supposed to see those percentage gains? Thats what people are complaining about, those percentage gains have not even been close so far. Yes, could be quirks, but don't lie to everyone and say their car will come close to those percentage gains.

And what is it that you keep talking about the known fact that the standback doesn't do well in bad weather??? The standback doesn't minipulate the temperature reading from the MAF, and its a known fact that ALL mazdaspeed3 have a temper in bad weather such as really cold weather conditions.

Look, it seems like you are definatly a COBB fanboy, I have a record on my posts when i first bought my car doing my research on all the parts I have, I didn't even know about CP-E. I did the research, I talked to people, I bought the best product I possibly could, because everything I buy I want to last. The AP is not the best tuning solution out, maybe in the future they will be as flexible as the standback, but RIGHT NOW it doesn't compare, and the numbers on the dyno's speak for themselves. And I'm not just talking about laloosh.

There is no descrepensies with what I am saying, I buy the best thing out, and I don't stand by a brand because I like a brand! I was a big Nissan and Stillen fan, and now I bought a MS3 a while ago and am buying the best product, which happens to be CP-E, even if that means I pay more.

I have no reason to be biased, I'm not tied to any company, and I have a record of doing my research on the forums on all the companies. Now if you can just open your eyes and look at all the companies unbiasedly, maybe you might buy a product that is NOT from COBB. sheesh.

I have cobb parts, and cp-e parts on my car.
My whole point of that post, is that you shouldnt post s*** if you don't know for sure.
I never said the AP was the best tuning solution, so I dunno where you're getting that idea from.
 
do you know how beta products work? it is that cobb has chosen to allow the end user in on their beta product so they can finalize it with all the user input they can, which means there are going to be issues that arrise. the whole point of being in beta is to work out the kinks, so of course the precious standback which is on its 2nd version and might i add had numerous problems in version 1 and still some in version 2, is going to possibly be better.

so why are we argueing what is better RIGHT NOW. It seems like CP-E was a step ahead when I was researching, and they are step ahead now and it seems like they will stay a step ahead.
 
I have cobb parts, and cp-e parts on my car.
My whole point of that post, is that you shouldnt post s*** if you don't know for sure.
I never said the AP was the best tuning solution, so I dunno where you're getting that idea from.

so what are you arguing right now? I'm telling people that they should do some research, and I never said that I was a CP-E fanboy or anything, i said I chose what is the best out right now.

If you had to tune your car right now, what would you pick?
 
so why are we argueing what is better RIGHT NOW. It seems like CP-E was a step ahead when I was researching, and they are step ahead now and it seems like they will stay a step ahead.

I dont know why people are saying the AP is a piece of s***. Nobody said the AP was a gods gift when v100, v101, or even v102 maps came out, everyone agreed that it needed more work. Now the beta v103 maps are out, and theyre actually doing some good, but theyre still beta maps. We have to wait for the final releases to come out to know how it's going to be for sure.

Nobody is saying that the AP is better. Where do you keep getting that idea from?!
 
so what are you arguing right now? I'm telling people that they should do some research, and I never said that I was a CP-E fanboy or anything, i said I chose what is the best out right now.

If you had to tune your car right now, what would you pick?


I'm arguing that the comparison test wasn't done with a scientific approach(keeping everything the same, but having 1 variable).
I think posting stuff about a product to make it look bad when the product isn't even completely done yet isn't right, even people from Cobb will agree that the maps need more work.
Sure laloosh got a map that was somewhat tuned for his mods, but the average person can't do that yet, so this "test" should have waited for the tuning software to come out.

I have the AP on my car, I'm not saying its better, I have it because its easy, I've seen what Cobb has done on other cars so I know it has potential, and I don't know how to tune, and I dont have the money to pay for someone to tune. With my mods, having the stock tune I'm sure would get some sort of cut, so I have to have something. So obviously for those reasons, the AP was better for me. It's different for other people.
 
so what are you arguing right now? I'm telling people that they should do some research, and I never said that I was a CP-E fanboy or anything, i said I chose what is the best out right now.

If you had to tune your car right now, what would you pick?

Which one would I pick? It would all depend. If I need a CUSTOM tune to support a bigger turbo, meth, N.O.S. or something along those lines, I would choose the SB.

However, with my current mods (basically every bolt-on except Turbo Inlet/EMani) I'm very happy with my Cobb AP.

In reality, 99% of those on any of the Mazda forums would be happy with the AP using the 103 Maps (using the right map for their mods). The only time the SB is better (right now) is if you need a custom tune to squeak out every ounce of HP/TQ you can. IE Custom Tune.

The dyno prior to my AP 103 Map dyno, I put down 248WHP/278TQ running 18PSI with CAI, TMIC, Test Pipe, Forge BPV, MBC/Map Clamp. My AP Dyno was 286WHP/296TQ running FMIC, SRI, Test Pipe, HKS BPV. I gained almost 40WHP with the AP with only minor mod changes. I'm sure that with the TBE I have over 300WHP now.

I'm sure 99% of the people here would be perfectly happy with those AP results. Those that need a custom tune can go with the SB or wait for the AP Protune. Ether are great choices.

You keep bringing up your RESEARCH subject so I have to question it. You are running a CPE FULL FLASH with the little mods you have? Also, if you really did want the best you would not be running a Synapse. I'm pretty sure even those of the likes of Laloosh and Palerider would agree that the Synapse has been proven to be the biggest POS ever produced for our car. Sure the Youtube video looks cool, but it's a lie. Everyone who jumped on the Synapse when it was released got screwed. Driver311 was the one pushing it and got a LOT of people to bite. It has went down in the Mazda forums history books as the biggest scam ever.
 
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