92eg6

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well im almost done w/my build and was just wondering on which engine management i shoud use. I already have an AEM 1020...but ive seen that they tend to break up alot...and i would need either a msd dizzy or trigger kit to fix the problem but i dont want to spend another 300-600 if i dont have to...i can always sell the aem and buy an s300...but are there any major differences between the two? i kno aem has alot of options but am i really going to use any of these?

Turbo-charged

what are you planning on doing with the car? you must use a t1 cam trigger to get the aem to work correctly.

if its just a daily driver type car, and you dont plan on doing anything overly complicated i prefer the s300. if its a drag car, the aem has some features that may be more helpfull.

0mtber

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<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Turbo-charged &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">what are you planning on doing with the car? </TD></TR></TABLE>

+2

92eg6

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its mainly a drag car w/little street use.

wHOAlly

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Turbo-charged &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">what are you planning on doing with the car? you must use a t1 cam trigger to get the aem to work correctly.

if its just a daily driver type car, and you dont plan on doing anything overly complicated i prefer the s300. if its a drag car, the aem has some features that may be more helpfull.</TD></TR></TABLE>

EXACLTY what i say, minus the T1 comment, lol.

Street car, hondata, if u do racing, and are serious, AEM.

92eg6

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<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by wHOAlly &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">

EXACLTY what i say, minus the T1 comment, lol.

Street car, hondata, if u do racing, and are serious, AEM.</TD></TR></TABLE>

well im using it mainly for dRag racing but what would be the major difference..what does the aem have that would make me spend an extra 300- 600 to make it work correctly, be it on a trigger kit or msd dizzy

Tony the Tiger

You can try your luck and run an MSD Pro Billet dizzy... No problems with mine for a long time now.. Same with the few I recommended to my customers.

SwappedTURBOegg

wana trade? lol

alpha

+1 on what everyone else said. I prefer the AEM EMS but it isnt for everyone. As far as the T1 Trigger. It's hit or miss really. I've had no problems with some cars. Mainly 1999/2000 distributors. Then I have had a lot of problems with other cars. My personal car I ran an oem Honda distributor with a 1040 box. I only had problems with a Distributor King. If you have a budget for a T1 Trigger I definately recommend it. If not, see what your success is with an oem Honda distributor (coil, rotor, icm, etc)

Turbo-charged

the way i look at it you can not spend the money on the t1 trigger......go put the car on the dyno....waste an entire day and a lot of money on dyno time....and probably waste more money than the cam trigger cost.........or if you get one of the 20 distributors in the world that actually work...you can cross your fingers every time you drive the car and hope that it doesnt fail.

or you can buy a cam trigger and NEVER have to worry about it ever again


(sorry, ive just wasted more hours of my life than i'd like to even talk about because people tried to make their strock distributors work) lol

tony1

Very true, spent 2 hours on the dyno the other day with an aem car diagnosing a phantom 7500ish fuel cut. Turns out it was the dist loosing the cam signal. Put a cam trigger on it and revs to 10k no problem.

alpha

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Turbo-charged &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">the way i look at it you can not spend the money on the t1 trigger......go put the car on the dyno....waste an entire day and a lot of money on dyno time....and probably waste more money than the cam trigger cost.........or if you get one of the 20 distributors in the world that actually work...you can cross your fingers every time you drive the car and hope that it doesnt fail.

or you can buy a cam trigger and NEVER have to worry about it ever again


(sorry, ive just wasted more hours of my life than i'd like to even talk about because people tried to make their strock distributors work) lol</TD></TR></TABLE>

Dont get me wrong. I agree fully. I have had a couple cars with great condition oem distributors actually work. Just had good luck. I didnt mention on my personal car I had no issues with my oem distributor but I have since switched to a T1 Cam Triggers ... On both our Honda's

OLD_HATCH

I have a 1040 aem running my stock obd1 distributor. I am having an isue where the car will not hold an idle under 1500-1600 rpm.

You guys saying this is a cause of just poor distributors an can be rectified by swapping out distributors or getting this t1 trigger it would solve my problem????

Sory to get off topic but Ive been stumped by this problem.

tony1

If your "stat sync'd" goes away below 1500, then the trigger will fix it. If stat sync'd doesn't go off until the car dies, then you have another problem.

Turbo-charged

shat stinks? lol

OLD_HATCH

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by tony1 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">If your "stat sync'd" goes away below 1500, then the trigger will fix it. If stat sync'd doesn't go off until the car dies, then you have another problem.</TD></TR></TABLE>


is that in the parameters box? Its been like 6 months since I tried to work with aempro. any details you could swing my way would be helpful either here or by pm.

tony1

It'll be in the parameters window of the "start" template.

92eg6

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i know the trigger kit solves all those problems..a friend of mine just got one and fixed all his problems...but my main question is if there are any major differences between a 1030 or an s300..i would just sell the aem and get the hondata if there arent....im kind of leaning towards the s300 because schools starting in two weeks

tony1

Who is tuning your car?

92eg6

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most likely gato from agressive...but now that you mention it im not to sure if he tunes hondata lol...i know he tunes aem though

tony1

Well, you need to get with him and see what he'd rather use. The best system in the world doesn't do you any good if you can't use it.

92eg6

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i just want to make sure im not missing anything if i sell my aem.

tony1

There's a lot of capability that you loose out on, but if it's capability that you're not going to do anything with, then you're not loosing anything.

alpha

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by tony1 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">There's a lot of capability that you loose out on, but if it's capability that you're not going to do anything with, then you're not loosing anything.</TD></TR></TABLE>

Exactly. Your tuner needs to be familiar with AEM EMS / AEMPro, T1 Cam Trigger, etc. to take full advantage of it

DaveF

when i was using an oem dist on my street car with the aem, it was getting so many sync errors it would just shut off, it wouldnt even idle... im talking like over 100 errors in a minute.


my racecar idles like a champ, and make sick power with the T1 trigger, revs clean and smooth !