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You're not wrong, but are we just saying dedicated motorsports? My angle is the multi-purpose folks. If this is going to be dedicated motorsports then I would already agree go standalone.
Last edited by Biggiesacks; Jun 27, 2021 at 02:19 PM.
You're not wrong, but are we just saying dedicated motorsports? My angle is the multi-purpose folks. If this is going to be dedicated motorsports then I would already agree go standalone.
Yup, get that.
I don't think I have put pump gas in any of my evos for over a decade now.
Has anyone used HPAcademy for lessons? Thinking about buying the Motec M1 lesson cause playing with the software its pretty clear I don't know how to do squat and I need to know at least a few things for building maps related to ACD.
Has anyone used HPAcademy for lessons? Thinking about buying the Motec M1 lesson cause playing with the software its pretty clear I don't know how to do squat and I need to know at least a few things for building maps related to ACD.
I like the free videos on their channel, but no experience with their paid stuff. If you are looking for tuning courses, I'd also consider Jeff Evans (evansperformanceacademy.com).
Right now HPA has 50% off so I bought the M1 class. Its 6hrs so even if its not a perfect course I'll still learn a lot from it all.
Originally Posted by Balrok
I know a couple people who've gone through the engine courses on HP and said they liked it. I'm gonna have to do the same eventually.
On this harness - was it setup to plug into the stock ACD ecu, then ONCE you're ready to do it on the M1, there's a couple of wiring steps still?
Yep, you need to wire in any of your external sensors to add. At a minimum, AIT if its not already wired. I ordered a bunch of 16g and 22g pins along with the good wire from milspec (MotecUSA).
Im guessing you waiting to install for same reason as me cause it took so long to get the ECU and ran into race season. So its now pushed to an offseason project.
I've subscribed to the hpacademy.com stuff for a year now. Has helped a ton.
theres strategies to be employed by standalones that allow you to cool the car off below normal idle coolant temperature. Can be helpful in certain heat soaking environments.
I still tune my old car on the vipec v88. Going standalone simplified tuning and monitoring in some ways but grossly overcomplicated cold start hot start stop light idle and nuances that were the understated parameters with oem.
The vipec is a little lacking compared to some things out now but does get the job done.
the HPA stuff is a little on the expensive side (probably not for you guys with USD but is for me lol) but the content is really good, Ive bought a couple courses individually on topics i want to know more about and always found them decent.
Andre is very knowledgable and has a very good reputation in NZ especially regarding evos.
Trying to ballpark the cost of a Halltech. My car is already running SD on a stock ECU, so to switch back and forth, I'm thinking that I'd actually need to unplug the AIT and MAP sensors I'm currently using and run a separate harness to them for the standalone. Otherwise, it'd be impossible to switch back and forth with stock ECU without rewiring. Similarly, I think I'd need to unplug my oil pressure, WBO2, EGT and Flex Fuel sensors I have now (some of which interface with the stock ECU) and run them all to a Haltech I/O expander box ($400), a Haltech EGT amplifier ($400), and possibly a Haltech wideband controller ($300). The I/O expander only has room for 4 analog inputs, so maybe I'd need two of those? And then a hub ($100) to connect everything. Geez...seems to get expensive fast and I can imagine this would be tricky to set up. Are the off the shelf starter maps even set up for speed density?
