Hey all,

I'm looking to get my Evo 9 dynotuned and am looking at several options when it comes to the ECU.

I'm tossing up between reflashing the factory ECU, an HKS Fcon V Pro, or a Link G4 - any others I should consider?

The car wil be street driven 90% of the time, but I will be taking it to track days once every few months.

Along with the tune, I am upgrading the exhaust, fuel pump, fuel rail, injectors and intake.

Am pretty new to all this, so any advice would be much appreciated!

 

You ever think of oem ecu?

 

The Stock ECU is fine, my friend has a IX MR and running over 500whp whith the Stock ECU, Just need a good tuner he is using Jestr but I am sure there are some good ones near you.

I'm looking to get my Evo 9 dynotuned and am looking at several options when it comes to the ECU.

I'm tossing up between reflashing the factory ECU, an HKS Fcon V Pro, or a Link G4 - any others I should consider?

The car wil be street driven 90% of the time, but I will be taking it to track days once every few months.

Along with the tune, I am upgrading the exhaust, fuel pump, fuel rail, injectors and intake.

Am pretty new to all this, so any advice would be much appreciated![/QUOTE]

 

Stick with reflashing the stock ecu. 95% of the work is already done for you and that makes a huge difference when it's a street car. Making a stand alone perform like a stock ecu in all daily driving conditions is a lot of work. Your modifications are not extensive and it's not a dedicated race car.

 

I had been asking myself the same questions and I have done a lot of research and found that if you are only gonna track it once in awhile with some mild bolt ons you CAN run the stock ecu. Personally for peace of mind I would just have your stock ecu flashed (probably by buschur or mellon) after all of your bolt ons and call it a day. It's pretty easy to remove the ecu yourself and you can just ship it to one of the companies I mentioned, they ship it back and you reinstall it.

 

Factory ECU is limitless 1000whp+

 

actually we don't do any canned tunes where you ship the computer to us and we ship it back. We do custom e-mail tunes and road/dyno tunes. You can read about the process here

http://www.mellontuning.com/index.ph...dex&cPath=1_28

 

Yeah I mixed up all the different companies that I was looking at and realized that you were one of the few that didn't do the mail in thing. Sorry

 

it's no problem, just wanted to clarify so people didn't confuse us with other services out there

 

I agree with all the posts above. The stock ECU is limitless. Mellon and alot of the other guys out there are extremely smart on this thing, and I can speak from experience, Mellon put my tune in my car and I made good horsepower and torque. He found 40+ hp in my car that I couldn't, so stick with the stocker, it's the easiest and most cost effective solution.

 

Wow, totally not the answer I was expecting.. Was thinking everyone would be telling me to go for the HKS haha.

But much appreciated, I thank you all for your advice. Will definintely stick with the factory ECU and just have it reflashed by Speedtech Motorsport here in Wellington.

I'm going to do a 500HP build later on (my car has only 30,000kms on the dial) so is it wise to upgrade to an aftermarket ECU at this stage? Or still stick with the factory one?

 

Dude waste of time going to aftermarket... Im sure Andre, Ben or Doug would have told you to get a flash.... I am running my car on the factory ECU... Actually Andre is just finishing up the tune.. AND look at my sig, that tells you what engine I have (not stock)... All on factory ECU!!!! and running awesome!!!

 

there are cars at 1000awhp on the stock ecu, why would you need an aftermarket for anything less?

 

Thanks to Tephra and all the other stock ECU Guru's the stock ECU can do about 80-85% of what a standalone can do. If there was a way to live tune stock ECU's oh man AEM and the others might as well just hang it up

 

^^ there is a way to LIVE tune!! there are patch's to make it happen =)