i need some advice i have a stock evo 8 right now. i bought a shell and i put the motor in. the car is running off of haltech platium sport 1000 that i bought. i'm just woundering what's better having the haltech or just using the stock ecu? i don't like how haltech doesn't give me a check engine light if somethings wrong. now i'm not new to boost i'm planning on building the evo for like 700hp. is the haltech worth it when i can make the same power with the stock ecu?

i'm thinking about trading my haltech for a stock ecu and money or parts i'm located in florida i know awd sells them any input would be nice

 

If it is gonna be a street car why not use the stock ECU? I have a flash tune on the stock ECU and the car runs great.

 

when i bought the shell it didn't come with a ecu so i had a friend selling haltech and i bought it.

 

I was going to go with haltech too but i decided on sticking with stock ecu.

 

The stock ecu is favorable due to the capabilities, cost, and the advancement in Evoscan and EcuFlash. It has proven itself time and time again to suport big horsepower. Now thats not saying that Haltech doesn't have advantages, but it seems like you're better off with the oem ecu if you want the CEL warnings.

 

You can see what AWD has done with the stock ECU and as well as Standalone both Derek(diiirk)-Stock ECU tuner and Crispeed-Standalone tuner have basically mastered both and have achieved great results. Haltech has its advantages and can monitor a lot more, but the stock ECU has advanced so much that gives the tuner a lot of visibility and basically has no boundaries anymore.


For a street car I would stick with the Stock ECU as the drive-ability would be very good.

*Another thing to consider is who will be behind the keyboard tuning your car, that plays a big role and how you want your car to run.

 

The haltech does have codes for the various sensors it monitors. It also can activate limp/engine protection modes for those sensors when a problem do occur.
In the end it does not matter what unit you use to a point. What matter is the person setting up the unit to take advantege of all it's features.

So true.

 

Thanks for the input. I'm not to worry about the tuner I bought the ecu from him, and when he had the car it made really good power 780hp I believe. Shout out to Nos51 he tuned my Honda and when I finish the evo he'll tune it. I do have to bye some sensors from AWD map, and air temp. I'm going to give haltech a chance. Crispeed what's up with haltech not having a knock sensor built In, would you know?

 

The pro versions of the ecu's got Knock control. Yours don't. You got Josh so you don't need knock control!