Rebuilding need advice on electrical
11-26-23, 10:25 PM
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Rebuilding need advice on electrical
Hello all, looking for some help picking a direction for my ECU. I’m doing a full rebuild with a N/A street ported13b and a manual trans. I don’t have an ECU and don’t know if I should go buy an OEM one or get a stand-alone, I’m not a tuner but can learn haha. I’m looking to do a resto-mod car with modern convenience on the interior and I don’t know if that will affect anything to do with the ECU. Any help is greatly appreciated!!!
11-27-23, 09:06 AM
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well if you have a complete stock setup, with all of the sensors and such, it might be easier to keep it. if you don't have most of the stock bits its probably easier to go with the aftermarket ECU.
the learning curve is pretty steep for any of them, which might be fine.
quick run down of some of the choices
Link G4, its FD plug in, but its also the price performer. i've never used it, but if i changed from the power FC i would do this one
Power FC, its FD specific, so FC's are possible, but it gets kind of goofy. the FC Tweak tuning software is really really great, car practically tunes itself.
Megasquirt, ive never used one, but every one that does seems really happy with it. it used to be dirt cheap, and its not anymore, same price as the link
Motec. it deserves a mention, its the real deal, if you look in a race car this is probably what you would see. these days its cheaper than a Haltech
Haltech. people really love the current ones, and they seem to work really well too. its expensive, and Haltech has an annoying habit of updating things regularly, so you spend a lot of time learning new software, and then your ECU becomes obsolete
Microtech: not even sure they are in business anymore, but its an ECU right from the 90's
the learning curve is pretty steep for any of them, which might be fine.
quick run down of some of the choices
Link G4, its FD plug in, but its also the price performer. i've never used it, but if i changed from the power FC i would do this one
Power FC, its FD specific, so FC's are possible, but it gets kind of goofy. the FC Tweak tuning software is really really great, car practically tunes itself.
Megasquirt, ive never used one, but every one that does seems really happy with it. it used to be dirt cheap, and its not anymore, same price as the link
Motec. it deserves a mention, its the real deal, if you look in a race car this is probably what you would see. these days its cheaper than a Haltech
Haltech. people really love the current ones, and they seem to work really well too. its expensive, and Haltech has an annoying habit of updating things regularly, so you spend a lot of time learning new software, and then your ECU becomes obsolete
Microtech: not even sure they are in business anymore, but its an ECU right from the 90's
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11-27-23, 09:12 AM
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oh ECU in these cars basically only runs the engine, so has nothing to do with the interior
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11-27-23, 11:41 AM
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Hey thanks for the quick reply I will go look into those options! I am new to this forum so sorry for a dumb question but is there a classifieds section on here?
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