ECU, Wiring, Sensors
By xzachrickx
#337301 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










post you setups and what ecu and tuner you use, just so people get get some good ideas for what the need
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By teal_dx
#337303 I agree 100%. The tune is the last thing that you should cheap out on for a built car. Never buy a chipped anything from eBay. :thumb:

Like you, I'm running a hondata s300. I'm on version 1 though.
By xzachrickx
#337316
teal_dx wrote:I agree 100%. The tune is the last thing that you should cheap out on for a built car. Never buy a chipped anything from eBay. :thumb:

Like you, I'm running a hondata s300. I'm on version 1 though.




you useing a s200?
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By bigJOE671
#337327 The only problem that I heard from Hondata is that their customer service is below par. Sometimes Hondata tries to blame the customer if there was anything wrong with their product. This is all based on a couple threads I read.

Another tuning option next to Hondata is Neptune RTP.
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By Uknterror
#337334 Neptune RTP ftw! :)
By xzachrickx
#337336 i have never tried out neptune but i hear alot of people using it and crome. i havent heard awesome things about crome tho.
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By JUICE
#337339 Neptune RTP here as well. It's pretty much exactly like s300 for a little cheaper. Crome is outdated junk these days.
By HeikDiesel
#337393 Another satisfied RTP user here
By xzachrickx
#337394 you guys tune your own cars?
By HeikDiesel
#337414 I had Cortney Green out of Salt Lake do my car. He's the man, but the software is pretty easy to understand. I've made little changes here and there without problems.
By xzachrickx
#337416 i would like to learn some more about tuning. i just watch my buddy and he is amazing at it. he has tuned many cars and have never heard of one blowing up as everyone else around me "tunes cars: and they all have problems lol