who's tuned their own car?

daz-civic · Post by **daz-civic** » Wed Oct 14, 2009 12:33 pm

i was gona take my car to gotboost but he's now decided he's not bothering with crome anymore and is only doing hondata and im sick of trying to find someone that can tune my car so im thinking about getting all the bits i need an reading up and giving it a go my self
whats everyones experiences with trying it themselves?

robrex · Post by **robrex** » Wed Oct 14, 2009 12:54 pm

daz on here can tune it for you, drop him a PM

i tuned my civic and it was quite easy really, but it costs alot in parts. you need a socketed ecu, ostrich, datalogging serial to usb converter, wideband air/ fuel gauge and sensor. then you need to create a basemap (ng62 i would go for) and use the excel 'basemapper duluxe' to create your fuel and igintion tables.

check out

http://www.moates.net/

and for creating a base map http://www.xenocron.com/te.php?page=basemap

and 2 other must see websites

http://web.archive.org/web/200507280120 ... ry/WebHome

www.pgmfi.org

i found turbo edit great for working on the D16a9. its tricky to get it all working together, and you'll also want the tracer 'plug in' on turbo edit so that when your fine tuning your map you can see what areas of the map are being used in relation to you A/F read outs.

theres alot to read about and understand if your going to try it yourself. plus non of this touches on the ignition tuning side of things.

thats more than enough info to help you out and start you in the right direction. good luck!

oh and when it comes to the ecu its easy to solder it yourself. i used a sewing needle and a 3 quid iron and it worked perfectly. get the socket from maplin for about a quid tops.

Rich4thGen · Post by **Rich4thGen** » Wed Oct 14, 2009 3:20 pm

some great info there!!

Sowler · Post by **Sowler** » Thu Oct 15, 2009 10:04 am

robrex wrote:i tuned my civic and it was quite easy really, but it costs alot in parts. you need a socketed ecu, ostrich, datalogging serial to usb converter, wideband air/ fuel gauge and sensor. then you need to create a basemap (ng62 i would go for) and use the excel 'basemapper duluxe' to create your fuel and igintion tables.

*aherm* *cough*

Daz where abouts in the UK are you? I might be able to help.

daz-civic · Post by **daz-civic** » Thu Oct 15, 2009 10:16 am

im in south wales (carmarthen)

oh btw ive got a socketed and chipped ecu already and it has a base map on it ,is there a way i can get the map off the chip to use as my base map to tune

Sowler · Post by **Sowler** » Thu Oct 15, 2009 11:12 am

What ECU do you have? PP4/5? I wouldn't use Crome. TurbeEdit (TE) would be best.

Also what is the spec of your car? Injectors? FPR? etc.

daz-civic · Post by **daz-civic** » Thu Oct 15, 2009 11:19 am

its not a 4g its my em1
obd2 converted to obd1 with a socketed and chipped p28
rc 550's, turbo kit of this and that pieced together with t3/t4 turbo
engine is pretty much stock

Sowler · Post by **Sowler** » Thu Oct 15, 2009 12:09 pm

I don't have much experience with ODB1 stuff yet. I would suggest Artch tuning and get Ectune'd

robrex · Post by **robrex** » Thu Oct 15, 2009 8:23 pm

Laughing *aherm* *cough*

what do you think you helped or something?

i bring the skills you just supply the tools.

daz-civic · Post by **daz-civic** » Thu Oct 15, 2009 9:39 pm

ive been reading and also having a look at hondata to see if its really worth it, with hondata can you just plug it in and tune it without the need for a seperate datalogger and emulater ?

Sowler · Post by **Sowler** » Fri Oct 16, 2009 11:01 am

I believe so yes. But you might also want to look into a moates demon and Ectune package. That will do all you want and has everything you need car a wideband and is about $400

Post by **Daz** » Fri Oct 16, 2009 8:54 pm

I use Crome pro for tuning my OBD1 and will be doing Hondata early next year.

Daz if you want some work just let me now our dyno rates are very reasonable.

Daz

daz-civic · Post by **daz-civic** » Fri Oct 16, 2009 9:33 pm

how much for a remap? and do you do it all in a day or would you need the car for longer?

Post by **nominous** » Fri Oct 16, 2009 10:51 pm

Daz wrote:will be doing Hondata early next year.

Suppose this is a good time to sell my Hondata with the tuning software for S200 ??

Anyone ??