Couple of Questions
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Couple of Questions
Hey guys, I've been browsing for a while for answers to these questions, I just want to make sure I have a complete understanding before I proceed.
Background
I have a C4 corvette that I use for lemons racing; basically crap cans trying to survive a 24 hour race. We blew up our SBC on our last race. Showing up in a 205 HP corvette still earned us (my team) 50 laps. We picked up an LT1 but we would get absolutely eviscerated with laps if we showed up in that. For this, we decided to go a different route. Talking to the judges, if we did something to **** off the corvette crowd, they wouldn't ding us for laps. This established, we figured the best thing we could do to **** off the corvette crowd is ditch the big American V8 all together and install a four cylinder Honda engine.
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My questions reside in the electrical aspect of the car. I'm looking for a complete pullout K24 swap. The one thing that is a little confusing is the immobilizer aspect of it; how exactly does this work for the hondas? My last lemons racer was a contour with a SVT swap; all I had to do was stick the matching ECU key into a ring. I'm not looking for pretty; just functional. I also don't care for tuning the vehicle, stock tune is fine. From my research, the two ways to go are either get a hondadata kpro ecu (about a grand) or a JDM ecu (about $300). Is there any way to run the stock ECU? I'm doing it from a cost aspect as keeping the cost down is the name of the game in this series.
Also, K24 is yet to be determined (still on the hunt). We really don't care if we get the 200hp version or the 160hp version. Does which method you utilize depend on the vehicle and or year?
Many thanks!
Background
I have a C4 corvette that I use for lemons racing; basically crap cans trying to survive a 24 hour race. We blew up our SBC on our last race. Showing up in a 205 HP corvette still earned us (my team) 50 laps. We picked up an LT1 but we would get absolutely eviscerated with laps if we showed up in that. For this, we decided to go a different route. Talking to the judges, if we did something to **** off the corvette crowd, they wouldn't ding us for laps. This established, we figured the best thing we could do to **** off the corvette crowd is ditch the big American V8 all together and install a four cylinder Honda engine.
Question(s)
My questions reside in the electrical aspect of the car. I'm looking for a complete pullout K24 swap. The one thing that is a little confusing is the immobilizer aspect of it; how exactly does this work for the hondas? My last lemons racer was a contour with a SVT swap; all I had to do was stick the matching ECU key into a ring. I'm not looking for pretty; just functional. I also don't care for tuning the vehicle, stock tune is fine. From my research, the two ways to go are either get a hondadata kpro ecu (about a grand) or a JDM ecu (about $300). Is there any way to run the stock ECU? I'm doing it from a cost aspect as keeping the cost down is the name of the game in this series.
Also, K24 is yet to be determined (still on the hunt). We really don't care if we get the 200hp version or the 160hp version. Does which method you utilize depend on the vehicle and or year?
Many thanks!
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