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Old Feb 14, 2010 | 05:19 AM
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Hi, my wife has a 2.3 Vtec Accord. Its an '01 automatic, and I was wanting to see if there is any tuning software out there like SCT that is made for these cars? Thanks
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Old Feb 14, 2010 | 11:33 AM
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Anyone?

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Old Feb 14, 2010 | 12:26 PM
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What are you looking for? Fuel economy or Power type controllers?

I haven't seen any economy control boxes advertised for Honda's. They aren't usually required to have the need for controllers. Honda seemed to have done pretty well with the stock engines and computer setup.

If you are looking for more power or control of your engine. There are some small hacks out there that people are using. I don't promote them due to the fact that 9 times out of 10. They do more harm than good. They aren't pre-set like the domestic control boxes.

Besides, For the same cost as a good power controller you can have a fully tuned Honda ECU that will do as much, if not more, than any off the commercially advertised control boxes will do.


Again It all depends on what you are looking for.

BTW, What is an SCT?
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Old Feb 14, 2010 | 12:38 PM
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SCT is a tuning solution not available for honda's
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Old Feb 14, 2010 | 04:26 PM
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Nope. All you can do is bolt on some stuff and grab a piggyback unit to tune the bolt on mods....


unless your wife wants to convert OBDII to OBDI, swap motors, grab a P28 ECU and then program it w/ HONDATA..CHROME, etc.
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Old Feb 14, 2010 | 04:32 PM
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Easy now Wheelman, It's not that hard to throw in an OBD2 to OBD1 conversion wire harness. I used to run my car with the stock P0B OBD2 ECU and then 15 minutes later be running the same car with a chipped OBD1 P75 ECU (w/vtec, but it was disabled)

My very first chipping job, I am no longer using this small conversion harness though.



The above image is what I was referring to when I was talking about an OBD2 to OBD1 conversion harness. it is the part with the plastic connectors at both ends. It's plug and play, no engine swaps required. But a trip to a tuner is recommended
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Old Feb 14, 2010 | 04:47 PM
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4Door01Accord,

If you want to do some reading there is a lot of information on Honda ECU tuning on the net. Both Hardware & software, Honda owners have a great asset in the fact that some of the computers that run the Honda PGM-FI system, are easily tuned. Due, thankfully, to the earlier explorations of the Honda tuning pioneers. The ones that aren't easily tuned can be converted to use the tunable ones fairly easily.
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