Whats a good ecu for money

Junkers · Post by **Junkers** » Sat Feb 26, 2005 8:00 pm

Hey, just looking at the ecu. Whats a good aftermarket ecu for someone who lives in nz and is frowning at spending $2000 on a chip and a pcb board?

davidbek95 · Post by **davidbek95** » Sun Feb 27, 2005 12:11 am

Well you live in NZ,LINK would be your best choice wouldn't it be.
REGARDS DAVID

SpidersWeb · Post by **SpidersWeb** » Mon Feb 28, 2005 12:10 am

I dont like Link myself. My list of preferences are Autronic, then Microtech. I like the Wolf3D, just dont know how well its supported in NZ.

Autronic seems to be the preference these days. But then I haven't got a price on one lately.

NachoMan · Post by **NachoMan** » Mon Feb 28, 2005 1:11 am

Haltech E6X tends to be decent.
Otherwise one of the other Haltech's. It depends on which features you want...

pajeroturbo · Post by **pajeroturbo** » Mon Feb 28, 2005 3:03 am

i am using a haltech on my car i think it is avery gooy ecu and very easy to play whith.

NXTIME · Post by **NXTIME** » Mon Feb 28, 2005 10:07 am

I woud find the best tuner in your area and ask him what he prefers as an ECU is only as good as its tuner.

davidbek95 · Post by **davidbek95** » Mon Feb 28, 2005 10:28 am

What charlie is saying is true because the closet place i can get mine tuned properly is 400k's away,is a pain in the arse,i use the autronic which is very good,but never tried another brand, but i still would use the
LINK as they made in NZ and back up serves would ideal,Charlie i will send that bloody CAM to you, the (stage7) one rofl .
regards david

NXTIME · Post by **NXTIME** » Mon Feb 28, 2005 1:51 pm

rofl OK

Junkers · Post by **Junkers** » Mon Feb 28, 2005 5:46 pm

yea link is what most people say, i find the price hard to believe though.. oh well.
Anyoen know of those mega squirt ecu's you build yourself?

Chris 83JA · Post by **Chris 83JA** » Mon Feb 28, 2005 5:55 pm

I believe the megasquirt is fuel only, not ignition
It's written in some sort of assembly language i think, making it totally customisable. Would be fun to play with. People can write their own digital dash's etc.. to go with it on an lcd

quest · Post by **quest** » Tue Mar 01, 2005 5:24 am

http://picasso.org/mjlj
"build it yourself" pogramable spark control that work with megasquirt
cost ~$60 and uses very inexpensive and readily available ford distributorless ignition bits

Post by **TOMSUN** » Fri Mar 04, 2005 8:47 am

StazzyBabyYeah...
How much do you want to spend???

EMS Stinger 4 $990 (Good cheap computer and loom)
Wideband O2sensor $350?

With a laptop and a mate in the passenger seat and some quiet roads you could get a 1/2 decent tune..

Junkers · Post by **Junkers** » Fri Mar 04, 2005 7:02 pm

TOMSUN wrote:StazzyBabyYeah...
How much do you want to spend???

EMS Stinger 4 $990 (Good cheap computer and loom)
Wideband O2sensor $350?

With a laptop and a mate in the passenger seat and some quiet roads you could get a 1/2 decent tune..

Thanks for the idea Tomsun, the link ecu costs 2k so i mayaswell spend an extra 400 - 500 dollars and get a recognised ecu if i were to spend around $1600 NZD, i was looking more at ecu's you amke yourself for around $300 +

Post by **TOMSUN** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 8:32 am

EMS is a very popular ECU.

Rigoli is a very recognised performance workshop in Sydney there are 2 or 3 brothers with their own workshops. One of them just uses EMS. I was at the WSID Street Meet and bumped into a guy who has a VS Commodore Twin Turbo V6 on NOS. He ran a 10.7 in full trim with a set of slicks. The car is driven daily and is very smooth. This is car runs an EMS 8860 ($1500) the nex model up fron the stinger. (It has more inputs and outputs & will control the stepper motor for idle control that is on the holdens. The Stinger model will control a solenoid valve like the ones on the fords for idle control.)

Do yourself a favour.... Don't bother with the "Do-it-yourself" ECU. It will take years to get that to work properly.

You could fit the EMS computer to your car and do a rough tune (drivable) yourself in a day.

We fitted one to a Mazda Astina 323 with the Turbo BP motor in 3 hours at Tafe to on of the guys car and he drove it home with a base map that was in the ECU. He brought it back to tafe the next week and did an 80% tune in 2 hours on the dyno but the boost controller was playing up.

But you can get a very good tune on a track if your buddy doesn't get car sick going around a track and looking a the lap top.

Spend the money on the EMS Stinger. Good value for your money.

http://www.rigoli.com.au/custom.html
All his cars run EMS!!! (Check them out... The TT Commodore is on there)

http://www.enginemanagementsystem.com/
Speedsource
29 Alnwick St,
Walkworth New Zealand
Ph. (64) 2143-9668

:D

nomis · Post by **nomis** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 8:54 am

who on here has the ems on there cars? just woundering how well they go and how easy they are to program and tune
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