safcII v.s. emanage ult.
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safcII v.s. emanage ult.
so i just bought my mazzuri headers and ypipe, i'm about to order my ti-c catback , exhaust cam gear, and prob ingen or pro lex intake system. i MIGHT go with a 80mm throttle body conversion. now my question is i cant decide if i should go with the safcII or the emanage ult. i've looked into both of them and price wise the emanage is more. but i'm worried that the emu might be overkill for my na setup. i'm not worried about either of them re learning because its an na setup and my tuner is quite experienced so i'm pretty sure we can tune to avoid that happening. does anyone have experience with either of them and shed some light on the pro's and cons? any input and advice is welcome and thank you in advance!
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personaly i dont realy care for the Super afc I had one in my 97gsx eclipse with 500hp. there ok for low power and stuff like that but if you plan on going with more power get a wide band 02 so you can tune your self and it makes dyno time alot less of a problem with renting the o2 and the instal time. on a just header and intake i dont see the problem in the afc but would recomend a biger fule pump and maybe injectors im not realy sure if you want to max out the stock ones all the time. the afc tricks the ecu by telling it its not getting enought gas or to much gas witch ever way you ajust it more or less so theres is alot of wireing and i did have my first one burn out for some odd reasion and had to buy a new one. i would rather go stand alone
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I agree...the S-AFC is even overkill for what you're doing. Most people don't start looking at ECU mods until "real" mods are done. Bolt ons really aren't going to net you much additional power by tinkering with the fuel.
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agreed on above. Emanage will give you more control as you can do timing and such with the add on harnesses, but honestly it wont make a ton of difference on an NA application. Even an SAFC will likely be negligable. . .maybe another 5-8HP
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the issue with a piggy back on the IS, is the stock computer learns and makes more changes to the changes from the piggy back. so the tune will not be exact all the time. ie constantly changing.
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Has anyone actually acquired logs to show how the ECU has altered it's parameters after a piggy back tune has been in place for a while?
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Would resetting the ECU revert it back to where it was the you did your piggy back tune, basically undoing the learning. I would assume this to be the cause unless the ECU is quite sophisticated and actually re-writes what it learns to the base map (which I doubt).
Has anyone actually acquired logs to show how the ECU has altered it's parameters after a piggy back tune has been in place for a while?
Has anyone actually acquired logs to show how the ECU has altered it's parameters after a piggy back tune has been in place for a while?
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