ecu/hondata

[cb7Choler]

whats a good ecu to get with a good hondata system.....

like what ecu and what hondata sys.....???

[rickyduckworth]

i'd get a chipped p28 and not fuck with hondata.

[cb7Choler]

were would be a good place to find a p28?

[cleanz_28]

EBAY...Why do u wanna go with Hondata?

What is ur set up

[d112crzy]

What setup do you have that you need hondata?

DOn't get a p28 if you don't have vtak. YOu'll be wasting your money unless you get it for cheaper than you can get a p06.

[cb7Choler]

i thought..... which was probly my first thing to do wrong... that hondata was a good system to tune with???


basic 96 h22a with auto trans....... nothing to the motor..... c.a.i and exhaust....

[Accord R33]

i thought..... which was probly my first thing to do wrong... that hondata was a good system to tune with???


basic 96 h22a with auto trans....... nothing to the motor..... c.a.i and exhaust....

It is. But there are much cheaper options available. Even 'Crome' basic should have every feature you will need for your setup.

[cb7Choler]

so......... whats everyone's two cents on this???

could y'all give me a list of shit to get???

thanks...

[d112crzy]

a better brain that has the ability to search.

Since you're auto, you might have to go with Hondata. Unless you want to help me figure out which tcu's work with which chipped ecu and which version of crome/uberdata.

I've figured out only 2 combos, which sucks.

[4GAccordH22]

Hondata is the only way to go without having to burn a chip every time you want to change something. I actually have a P28 with a Hondata S300 installed and tuned for my H22A1 for sale, but I don't know if it will work with an auto trans. Check the Hondata forums and they should be able to tell you whatever you need to know. Like was said earlier though, Hondata IS expensive, but you definitely get what you pay for in features and ease of tuning. The S300 is the only ECU "chip" I know of that is tunable on the fly.

[Accord R33]

The S300 is the only ECU "chip" I know of that is tunable on the fly.

Then you have obviously never heard of Crome.

[deevergote]

Chipped P28, Crome, and an Ostrich are all you need to tune on the fly (well, with the obvious inclusion of a wideband o2 sensor and a chip burner). Once you get the map where you want it, you can burn the chip and be done with it. I'll take a $400 setup and the need to burn one chip at the end of a tuning session over an expensive Hondata setup anyday!

Hondata is good, but very proprietary. They encourage you to go to a trained professional to have your car tuned. While that is a very good thing to suggest, it's not great for people who want to learn. Their stuff is very powerful, but for most users, the extra features are just extra confusion.


There's nothing WRONG with Hondata, they're just a bit overpriced. If I was going to spend a ton of money on a tuning system, I'd probably go with Electromotive or Motec. Regardless, I have no need for that much power in a tuning system!

[Jtschupp04]

are you saying with crome and ostrich you are able to datalog? only have to burn the chip once?

[deevergote]

You can datalog with Crome and the right cables. The Ostrich is an emulator, that allows you to load the map and run it on the fly. No burning necessary. Not until the map is where you want it, and you want it permanent. I believe there are other such emulators, but the Ostrich is the only one I've ever seen used in person (MRX used it when he tuned my car)

[4GAccordH22]

OK, when I said tunable on the fly, I meant you never have to burn a chip. And if you want to have 7 different maps for 7 different driving situations, all you need is a USB cable and a laptop to store the maps. Plug in the laptop, start up the software, upload the map of your choice and drive away. The S300 has built in datalogging with no special equipment needed. Plug in the laptop and download the datalogs. You can change the parameters for the datalogs, say you want it to start when you accelerate to 40 MPH and stop when you decelerate to 15 MPH. Set ip up and drive away.

I have nothing against Crome or Uberdata, but since I installed my Hondata, I've gotten partial to them. You CAN tune it yourself (As I have done in the past), but if you want a real good tune, you need to dyno tune it. And this is true of ANY tunable ECU...