Endless

Anyone here played with or is using Greddy's E-manage system? It's looks like a decent system for a street car. Thanks for any input guys.

Endless

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dustin

Hondata, AEM EMS

Dee

A piggyback will always be a piggyback! A bandaid trying to cover a major wound!!

thejdmkid

ahhh these guys never anawer this question, they dont like greedy i'm sorry i mean greddy. it can be a good management system if you buy all the hardware, an get a copy of the software, you can use it to real time data log an adjust stuff on the fly. but ad the saying go's. a mans car is only as good as the person tunning it.....

Endless

I'm not looking to run 9's on street tires or anything, I'm just interested in some added pep. I'm looking to turbo a Single cam VTEC motor and run like 10-12 lbs through it and I figured a piggyback should be sufficent for my application. I really don't feel like dealing with a full stand alone system and I think the E-manage program sounds pretty good for what I want to do.

Dee

I have answered this question many times! I have first hand experience with the Greddy band aid. After blowing lots of loot on this band aid my 1JZ Supra friend decided to get a Power FC with the Datalogit software instead of continuously buying add-on crap for a piggyback that is maketed as a "CHEAP" alternative to a true standalone. Software is extra, adapter cables are extra, ... pretty much everything cost extra.

Hondata 2b/3b, AEM, Haltec, Power FC without Datalogit, WinTEC or any of the other true standalones are much more cost effective to use. If you don't like tinkering with a true standalone you will not like the E-manage either since the software tries to emulate a true standalone. If you don't want to tinker get a Hondata 2b if there is a decent tuner near you.


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dariusz

I think that the e-manage solution is more price efective that Hondata or AEM. It is not a "true standalone" but with a "true standalone" you can be for lots of years trying to make tyour car run good in all conditions.

I have a friend withg a Hard modified Celica with a Haltec and after 2 years and +200 differents maps the car run as a **** in traveling, etc.

I don't have a tunner that know hondata or others standalone and e-manage for me is a good solution, at a good price.

About the software it is available (I expect to receive my copy this week) for all the customers.

Arturbo

Sounds like bad tunning to me.

DSF

I doubt that. A Hondata stage 2 actually costs less than a Apexi V/S-AFC and a stage 2b is only slightly more.

AVATAR

I am currently running the E-Manage or GReddy "band-aid" as some choose to call it. I think it is a pretty awesome unit. . .I purchased it due to the fact that you could control ignition timing and injection duty cycle for only like 3 bills (whereas the hondata usually cost that much to tune where I live). The disappointing things that I found out were that all the wiring will give you nightmares,you need to get it to someone who is familiar (which is hard) w/ the unit so you dont get raped on dyno time, and you can only run injectors that are no more than 30% over stock. With this "piggyback" I have put out roughly 250whp on my GReddy turbocharged Si at 12psi (actually 242 but SUPER HEAT-SOAKED ). Hope that helps

Dee

Did Super Honda or HA.net crash again? Where in the hell are these Trolls coming from?

It doesn't matter what you call it! A piggyback is a piggyback. Why manipulate a an output when you can find better systems that modify the base map. I guess you got a god deal because 3 bills on gets you the piggyback itself. Software is another $120, harnesses are another $100 (or more),...blah blah blah