- Fri Oct 04, 2013 3:28 pm
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iknow this is an older post but some poeple maybe be also looking for the same answer as you were. i think that the best ecu for any kind of swap or mods would be a stand alone. such as hondata, aem, motec. those are all great ways to get what you want out of your car. yes it is not the cost of a chiped ecu ($150-200) and an egay chip (37 chips for $2.00) not sure on price because i have never looked into it. i feel it is a great way to loss a motor, due to you cant make a tune for a car and have never heard it run. yes you cant get the tune kinda close, they are called "base maps". a base map is made to limp your car to your tuner, not drive around and rape the holy dog balls off of. but yes if you are just wanting to do I/H/E (intake, header, exhaust) then a stock map with aliitle bit of changes will run good, then get a chipped ecu from
http://www.phearable.net/. i had ordered a s300 (p28 with hondata chip) for setup. which was h2b bone stock everything with ferrea flatface valves, and the "tune" was pig rich (reading 10.3 and the leanest point of backing it up in my driveway lol). so i had my tuner come to me so we could make changes. hondata cost arund 7-800, pretty good software for tuning N/A or boost applications. AEM is proable the next step up, it has all the same stuff you can do with the hondata but there is also boost by gear, many n20 options, tcs settings, as well as some other things that are helpful to your tuner. motech m84 is about $2,250 on ebay, and that is just the ecu itself and then you have to get all new wiring,harnesses, sensors. but well worth it if you are competing. you will have complete controle over ever as aspect. all in all hondata is the best bang for your buck. i have ran a hondata s300 for about 3 years now and have had a h2b on pump gas setup, gsr I/H/E, turbo gsr, aswell as h2b on E85 I/H/E running 2200cc gram and idles amazing. just my 2 cents tho