Hey guys, i just completed my engine build on my fd and time to pick a stand alone set up. The car is a street car i want to push 18lbs and keep it on pump gas. Any sugestions?

 

18 PSI on the stock turbos is not going to work very well. They are going to pump a lot of heat and rapidly destroy themselves. You'll need a FMIC/VMIC to keep intake temps under control and on pump gas, that boost level is into the territory of unreliability.

That said, any standalone will do the job. Best to pick the one that your tuner is familiar with. Popular options are Haltech and PowerFC. Both have PNP harnesses for the FD.

 

i would say PFC because almost every tuner can tune one. But the BEST one i think would be the Haltech for the expandability and the number of cells it is capable of tuning. But i do agree you will need the supporting mods to get a certain boost pressure safely and i am sure your tuner will go over all that with you.

 

^Agree completely.
If your going to do your own tuning, read through the various standalone sections here. I think you'll find the most support for the PFC.
If it's a street car a VMIC would be preferred IMO. Regardless strongly consider an AI system at those boost levels to cool things even if it's a single turbo set-up.

 

Aaron cake im not running a stock turbo. My car was twin turbo stock and i went with a bigger singe turbo. My whole set up is built to push 800 hp but i want the car to be streetable. The car is no where near stock. I was thinking of the haltech because i know they make a wireharness for the fd.

I wanted to just feel out what all my options are?

And i will not be doing my own tunning. Depending on what system I go with will decide what shop I got to for tunning.

 

I'd get an Apex'i PFC and have Steve Kan tune it...If fact, that's what I and about 50% of the 3rd gen owners on this forum have done.

 

I wanted the apexi from the start but i dont know anyone that tunes it. What state is steve kan out of?

 

Forcefed Performance in Abby, BC uses Microtech, they build some serious high HP cars that survive.

 

Microtech LT10s all the way

 

Steve travels the country tuning FD3Ss. Check your local forum.

 

You should mention these key things when asking a question.

That said, I'd still recommend you look at the Haltech Platinum Sport 1000 or at the very least, the Sprint RE. Both are fine modern ECUs, with solid support in the community and something every tuner is familiar with.

No. Please, no. Microtechs don't support:

-saving maps to disk
-closed loop operation
-3D timing tables

And their interpolation is very primitive compared to, well, any other ECU.