What is Hondata exactly? I have a general idea as far as programming my ecu goes. Does anyone know about how much $$$ I'd be looking at if I got my turbo setup all bolted up to my sohc zc and brought it up there and told them to tune it?? Is that how it works?? Info would be great

 

Hondata only works for obd1+ ecus and the OBD0 PR3 and PW0 ecus.

http://www.hondata.com they have a list of ecus that will work with their system.

 

I see, that really sucks. I would just be nervous about trying to tune it myself w/turboedit. Is it easy to use?? What would I need to complete the tuning using turboedit?

 

i know a little about turbo edit, but never used it. i'm putting together a junkyard turbo setup as we speak (well, not literally of course...hahahaha).

basically, you need a chip burner. you can use turbo edit to burn maps onto a chip. you can either solder the chip onto your ecu, or like i will be doing (using a ZIF socket). a zif socket is basically soldered onto the ecu, but is an extension so to speak. you can plug a chip into it and remove as needed without the hassle of soldering/re-soldering.

hope that helps.

 

You can get your car set up with a decent turboedit base map pretty easy.
If your not yet confident enough to attempt to tune it yourself,
than any competent tuner should be able to do it for you. Its not so very
different from hondata.

 

What about Zdyne?? Would they be capable of doing what I need??

 

Absolutely. Although cost is the only drawback with zdyne. Otherwise, a great option.

 

If your going to run relatively little boost, you could always use an FMU, or Fuel Management Unit. The FMU will up fuel pressure based upon how much boost your running. I haven't done much research, since I feel that an FMU is a cheaper but way less effective way to run boost without detonation.

IMO the cons of using it would be the inability to fine tune the system and the huge pressure it can put on a stock fuel pump/lines(bursting lines).

You would have to pick up a wideband o2 sensor system or use a dyno to effectively tune on a standalone unit(turboedit, etc). Either that or run a really rich basemap.

 

Yeah, that would be great but I'm talkin major boost. I'm going to be at least running 15 psi. Probably closer to 20 tho.

 

is this going to be a junkyard turbo setup running 20 lbs?

 

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Oh no, it's going to be anything but junkyard. Everything brand new that's why I'm so anxious to figure out what I'm going to do about engine management. Because I'm wanting to do some serious racing and eventually competing officially. Gonna be using a t3/t4 turbo among other things.