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Dinosaur
10-25-2006, 04:22 AM
I finally called the tuner last night. He said he could set up my ecu to install chrome for $50. Right now my car has the P08 ecu that came with the JDM D15B. Would it be worth it to try and find a stock LX ecu and pay $60 to have it chiped & set up for vtec. Then sell the P08 for profit?
I called one junk yard before they closed last night. The guy said $100 for a non vtec ecu.
SOHC_Rules
10-25-2006, 07:55 AM
^^^ the usdm ecu's are easier to chip i do beleive... but on the other hand i got a 5speed p28 with 12" of harness wire for 10 dollars from a junkyard.... and thats what i'd look for and have it chipped, burn a p08 map onto it, then create basemap and tune from that.

edit: must have missed the part about having it converted to vtec, in this case on ebay or something, a p06 would cost less than 100 dollars after shipping..
siregcivic
10-25-2006, 09:16 AM
get the cheapest ecu... i usually go for the p05 automatics.. cx auto.. or the p06 auto... dx auto

then chip them and add vtec and for the p05 add 4 wire o2 its really easy... actually the junkyard i go to i got a p28 for 40 bucks and p05 for 30
JaredKaragen
10-25-2006, 11:24 AM
are you gonna smog? The P08 lacks o2 Heater, PA, etc.....
Dinosaur
10-26-2006, 04:23 AM
get the cheapest ecu... i usually go for the p05 automatics.. cx auto.. or the p06 auto... dx auto

then chip them and add vtec and for the p05 add 4 wire o2 its really easy... actually the junkyard i go to i got a p28 for 40 bucks and p05 for 30

Does it matter if I use an auto ecu and my car has a five speed? Would every thing still work, like the cruise control? I'm such a noob at this.

JaredKaragen- The car is running the P08 now. Luckly, in NYS we only have a visual inspection for the OBD 1 cars, OBD 2 have to be plugged into the computer. They don't actually check your pipe for what is coming out.
xenocron
10-26-2006, 07:50 PM
Chip the P08, let me know if you need the parts.

You can easily add the transistor on that P08 to convert to 4 wire o2 if you need to as well when you chip it :)
JaredKaragen
10-27-2006, 03:56 AM
The car is running the P08 now. Luckly, in NYS we only have a visual inspection for the OBD 1 cars, OBD 2 have to be plugged into the computer. They don't actually check your pipe for what is coming out.

omg... looks like I need to consider moving to NYS =P

I have a set of resistors/caps for the ECU... you'll just need the 74HC373 SMIC.... like $1.23 on digikey.... and a socket... the rest is cakewalk... unless you wanna add datalog...