Thread: vvl in a b14

not to mention "knock copy" lol

having a nistune i cant understand how someone could say that stuff.. its not really that hard to figure out..

say you wanna change you maf, in nistune it takes 30 seconds, a jwt ecu you have to send to them an have them reprogram it which is $100 and can take up to a few weeks..

say you change your header and you need to dial your afr's back in, have a friend go with you for a ride and he/she can literally adjust your afr's as you drive.. very simple.. click the cell you wish to change.. then use the + or - key on keyboard to richen or lean the cell.. within a few mins of driving you can have your afr's right where you want them, for jwt thats gonna be $100 and upto a few weeks..

this goes on an on an on..

Yep, i got like 5 Nistune daughterboards for me and friends. Best thing about it is price.. it was like 75usd shipped.

Absolutely, I'd rather spend that $100 in a EPROM burner, it's so easy that you can have yourself a pair of chips for different kind of gasoline or even different maps depending on weather outside.

I have a basic daughterboard ECU and love it, you can also set the temperature the fans turn in and also launch control or rev limiter.

You can destroy your engine (especially boosted) if you mess with the wrong maps but that's why you gotta take it slow

yea i've got a real time nistune an a calum basic.. i'd never touch the basic.. not interested in burning chips an stuff.. eventually im gonna get another nistune board to replace the board in the calum basic so i can tune my gf's g20 in realtime also..

I did not even know it had that option, great for it. I am glad they have that choice.

People are starting to get butt hurt because I do not want to tune a car myself.

I do not get that it is nothing personal, I am open to learning about it, I just do not want to do it. I almost bought a Nistune ECU in the most recent group buy on this very site for fucks sake.

This is the SR20-forum. I will post anywhere I want to man. An SR20VE is not entirely different from an SR20DE. Hell, it shares more than half of the same engine code, haha.

Sorry that you are getting your panties in a bunch because I do not want to tune my own car. Look at it from my standpoint, I do not want to tune my own car. Some people feel this same way also. I love plug and play, instant gratification. No thinking, no anything, drop it and go.

You want to tune your car, your g/f's car, hell maybe your neighbors car if he had an SR20-powered machine. That is great, I am glad that makes you happy!!

If others do want that, go for it. Miko recommends running the JWT ecu and not one single soul mentions that or personal attacks him for saying so. Keo said the same thing, crickets all around. Hilarious.

Funny how this place works.... anyway.

I would like to learn more about it, but I really do not have the time. I am glad you can ignore the knock sensor with the Nistune and Calum ECU's. I will apologize for that but you need to get off my ass about this.

This is my choice to not purchase one for my own car and others to not purchase a Nistune or a JWT. I do not even sell the things and Miko does and still no one says anything. I got the recommendation from my local tuner to either go all out and get a standalone or use the JWT and be done with it

I do not work on my car quickly. Six years later and I really have a baby setup. I do things at a snails pace so the JWT option is really not bad.

All of this is very situational and also dependent on personal preferences.

One big sorry to those who thought what I said was true about the calum and nistune ecus being unable to ignore the knock sensor.

Back to normal thread mode now.

well my vvl b13 ran 9.0 street tires(195 50 15) and a 8.6@81mph with slicks(22x8x15 m/t) what ever that equals in the 1/4mile. it had n1cams,jwt ecu redline@8k,hotshot gen5 headers 2 1/2 inch piping 194whp. also my buddy ran similar times same setup but he had a chiped ecu(way cheaper than jwt) from a local tuner with almost same power with no tune basically.

this is what aggrivated me viprdude.. had you left that tid bit out, i could have moved along with out thinkin twice.. but im not gonna let nistune be put down like that, i take offense because i run a nistune, an have helped many forum members decide on a nistune.. so puttin nistune down was like puttin me down, see where im goin with this..

like i said, i understand if you dont want to learn or dont have time, but theres no need to diss nistune when its the same price as a jwt but its fully tunable in real time.. an obviously you have no idea what nistunes capable of so you shouldnt pass judgement on it, it really just makes you look bad..

JWT is great for a person who doesn't know how to tune or doesn't want to bother tuning.

For me personally I love having my own board. I pieced together my own kit;
Basic OBD1 Board $60, burner $85, chips(4) $3, tunercode $140 An hour on the dyno $80. 368 total. Tunercode is optional but it is full of so much win!

I have also recently bought a set of emulators to tune on the fly, expensive but cool.

BTW with tunercode it is now possible to tune past 8k rpm and has all types of auxillary inputs. No more 8969 MSD window switch for vvl

Saying that nistune is crap and is not good for tuning is outragous, it is very cool programming. Viperdude you should check it out it also has some nice feature plus many bins are availablr for your setup IF you should ever decide to change your current setup.
BTW nobody commented on Miko because his info is pretty damn accurate, even the times he posted.

MY .02

Thats nice. I've heard you can use 2 emlulators to tune in real time. Is that Ostrich your running? Dave Dunn has madd code writing skills. I gotta check out the tunercode stuff. Are you obd1?