Chipped Ecu's

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Originally Posted by HachiKilla

I wouldn't chip an ECU.. the cars come out the factory with ECU's tuned to run the car at an optimum performance.. if I really wanted to, i'd tune the car instead and replace the stock ECU for an aftermarket one.. chipping ECU's will only put the car under more strain and shorten the life span of some of the parts in your car..

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would you recommend a Hondata instead of chipping a stock honda ecu?

define "chipping a stock honda ECU" because last time I checked, thats what a hondata is.

i think he was trying to joke around lol, or maybe not...

i had an ecu that i bought from the us i told the guy what mod i had on the car and he tuned it before he sent it to me. All it was, standard ecu with a spoon chip and it red line like crazy, for a b16a i was reving to 10 000 rpms no jokes

yeah i got it sorted out, done the same thing, told the guy what i had and he tuned it to that, car goes much much better than what it used too, and if you get a chip burner you can tune it yourself

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Originally Posted by sassy_fit_vtit

i had an ecu that i bought from the us i told the guy what mod i had on the car and he tuned it before he sent it to me. All it was, standard ecu with a spoon chip and it red line like crazy, for a b16a i was reving to 10 000 rpms no jokes

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What mods do you have? 10k rpm is pretty fricken fast to be spinning if you havn't touched the internals.

I'd say get an ECU tuning solution that can be tuned specifically to your car.
Be that Hondata, Pro ECU, Chrome or some other system.
What ever you do, just don't waste your time with B/S long distance guess tunes.
& "The guy"
Does he have a pointy hat with stars & moons on it, a crystal ball?

Seriously, if telepathic tuners were actually worth a pinch of salt...
Everyone would know about it...
In reality these things are nothing more than scams.

well said.

10,000rpm from a chip BS!

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Originally Posted by HachiKilla

.. the cars come out the factory with ECU's tuned to run the car at an optimum performance..

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everyday cars come out of the factory with a 'universal' tune based on factory bolt-ons, programmed to run at daily driving performance and tuned broadly to allow for international differences in weather, humidity etc etc. although, the ecu's ability to 'learn' does help somewhat to localise the settings/tuning.

factory ECUs are designed with large tolerances in place and are generally not performance based. The learning feature is only minor and it is to take into account for fuel differences mainly.

Your talking about getting the potentional out of your car so why not get your car tuned properly to your car.

Also your relying on this US tuner to tune a car he has never seen. What makes you so sure he can get it right? What if it runs too lean or too rich? what are you gonna do then?

He's prob giving you a map off a car he tuned with similar mods and then riching it up slightly to get it within safe parameters.

also 10,000rpm is too high for a stock b16. Your gonna need a rebuild if you keep that up. My 20v 4age revved to 9,500 RPM needed a rebuild in 12mths, and that's with a dyno tuned ECU.

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