Thread: Honda ECU on an SR20

hp10t Most people don't know the capabilities of a calum realtime because they can't tune(myself included) so they think o this is crap. Calum provides a base tune and then you must do the real work in getting the most out of your car. Calums stuff will be ever evolving so in no way is it outdated. I will say this again there are other people on this forum that can put calum boards into your ecu so you dont have to wait as long. If you know what you were looking at then the realtime will help you get what you want out of your car.Its a cool idea but I'm sticking with calum because I don't see a need to change something that a lot of high power people use. Also your car feels amazing because you got a tune for once (something that should be done as soon as your car is up and running). Before you were running a base program with no fine tune adjustments that would help your motor run stronger.

I think he was getting at the point of no one here that he knows of can tune the realtime, and paying for straight dyno time would most likely cost the same as this whole conversion. Whereas with the conversion dyno tuning is included by the shop

Sry to hear that you have nobody that can tune a realtime but they are rather nice. How much does this swap cost if you dont mind me asking since your getting it done.

I'm getting a few other things done, getting a manifold made along with intercooler piping, and the conversion. It costs $900 for the conversion and it includes all parts needed, dyno tuning, and of course labor

So your saying it would cost $900 where you are to tune a realtime on a dyno? I dont see it being worth $900 when how many times are you going to have to tune it?

what he is saying is that it would cost $350 for the realtime ecu, and a couple hours of dyno time to get the tuning done, and the cost of a tuner, so all and all it will be around the same price without all the extra features that hondata has

no one locally has tried to tune with the realtime ecu, im sure one of the local tuners could do it, if we ran one single eprom on the basic daughterboard, then we could have the same tuner run his emulator on it and tune it in realtime, but since we are using two eproms that comes as a problem

Understandable it just sucks that you guys dont have anyone that can help you tune. If you could even have them street tune you just saved over $600 right there. I pinch pennies haha so I like to keep it cheap and effective.

Yea it just wasn't cost effective to even go with Calum and waiting a year for an ecu is not what I plan on doing. I might as well try to write my own tuner program in that amount of time. Not sure around you but down here you are looking $150-$200 per hour for a tuner that knows what they are doing. $350.00 for Calum and then I would think there would be 3-4 hours of tuning envolved since no one locally knows how to use the realtime software. TIme is money unfortunately so the HOnda conversion in the end I think will be far more cost effective in my situation.

Hopefully soon I will have the N1 cams in and a upgraded exhaust with a retune to show some numbers. The weather over here has been so damn crappy you don't have much motivation to work on a car.

so is this place selling the distributor adaptors? im VERY interested in this seeing as the tuner we will be using mainly does hondata