[LetItSnow]

Apologies to Phil, but the Hydra has sacrifices to match its merits.

The support tends to be secretive, and when you ask tuners in our region about bringing it in, they treat it like a dead skunk. There's no way to export your maps and settings to read them outside of the Hydra software. The harness seems a little fragile (I had to reconnect one wire already.) The forum's weird, too - it converts select words into asterisks, like "software", "analog" and others I haven't figured out yet.

It is pretty well packed with features, though, and if you cough up the funds for the autotune feature it'll take care of a lot of the work for you. Plug 'n' play is nice, too, although the reach only allows you to place it where the OEM ECU was, and the Hydra's plenty bigger.

Ease of install? Sure. Existing maps? Yep. Manipulates like a large snake? Sorta.