i bought an integra shell for 300 bucks (fixing my newly acquired 1997 Integra RS)and found one of these in place of the stock ECU.......


the car previously had a Type -R motor in it before it blew.........

the ECU was used for approx 6 months.......

thanks in advance for your help

 

depends if it is the real deal or not.
Just beause it saids mugen could be that it has some ghetto ebay mugen chip in it, which is a copy soldered on.
If it is in fact the real mugen, probably 500-800

 

wow! yes it is an authentic mugen piece. i was expecting it to be maybe 100-200 dollars.

 

btw thx for the info

 

damn you got a steal. on the king motorsport website they gor for like a grand or some crazy ****. i would keep it if i were you or sell it if you need the money. great find

 

I had the real Mugen ECU and had to sell it for a low *** price because no one would buy it for my listed price ($800) on ebay. I ended up selling it for $300 to a first time user of Ebay from Ireland.

 

Better off keeping it... Mine went on Ebay for 436.00...

 

yeah, i know a few friends with GSR motors.......i guess if they have the ***** to start building it up, ill throw this at them cheap as a little suprise or something, no use trying to put it in my RS

 

Mugen Type R ecu? Damn, are you selling it?

 

Are you looking to sell that ?

 

I might hang on to it for a little bit. Mugen stopped producing that ECU last year.

 

What makes it so superior just out of curiosity? Ease of tuning?

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Utilitarian &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">What makes it so superior just out of curiosity? Ease of tuning?</TD></TR></TABLE>

I'd like to know as well - what is the big deal about this ECU?

 

i believe that the mugen ecu is a real ecu. it has it's own number (ie p73, p28, etc) i think it is x-01 or something like that. the reason that it is far superior then chips (ie skunk2, kenji, feels, etc) is that you get all the functions of a normal honda ecu.like cold start, vtec engagement varias with throttle postions/coolant temp,and **** like that.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Utilitarian &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">What makes it so superior just out of curiosity? Ease of tuning?</TD></TR></TABLE>

A few thing I can think of off hand: They use their own faster processors, the electronics have been silliconed to prevent damage due to excessive vibration, 9100 RPM redline, 4700 RPM vtec engagement.

It is <U>not</U> a re-worked Honda ECU.

 

they also have a different fuel map and timing IIRC.

 

where is a pic ?

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Bbasso &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">they also have a different fuel map and timing IIRC.</TD></TR></TABLE>

That is correct.

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by ROLINONDUBS &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">where is a pic ?</TD></TR></TABLE>

I've seen pics posted here on H-T, but search is down right now. One of these days I'll pull mine out and snap some pics -- but it's too fuggin' cold out right now.

 

I have a real mugen ecu, good luck selling it. People on here think that the other chips out there they can buy for a couple of bucks are alot better then the Mugen

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by ROLINONDUBS &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">where is a pic ?</TD></TR></TABLE>

Do ya really need a pic of a metal box ?

 

But what does the Mugen ECU actually do? What parameters does it change and to what values?

 

That much detail I have no clue about.

for a bone stock R I hear that it's too much fuel tho...

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Flux &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">But what does the Mugen ECU actually do? What parameters does it change and to what values?</TD></TR></TABLE>

For one thing ... you can run a test pipe and not get a CEL.

 

It's not worth more than 250. You can get a used hondata for 300-350 and whoop its ***.

Discontinued/authentic Mugen or not, to me its silly to choose an ECU on anything other than function.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by battlofla &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">i bought an integra shell for 300 bucks (fixing my newly acquired 1997 Integra RS)and found one of these in place of the stock ECU.......


the car previously had a Type -R motor in it before it blew.........

</TD></TR></TABLE>

what year is the wiring harness or car that you bought?