Chipping Your ECU
 

Hey all,

My tegs a daily driver, but i wanna have some fun with it and put in some practical bolt on/easily afforded parts. Intake/exhaust i can understand, but i have limited knowledge of ecu mods. I looked into Hondata's website and realized that i was short on know how. What exactly, if anything, would a chip like that do for a stock or close to stock vehicle (like i said with intake/exhaust and maybe some modest engine mods) Would it be worth it?

...total noob Q...?
thnx!

Chipping your ECU is only necessary if you have more stuff done then Intake/Exhaust...you really would wanna tune and chip when you upgrade some internals such as cams, camgears, pistons you name it.

You can surely get your stock car tuned to squeeze out a few more horses out of it, When they chip the ECU they change all the schismatics for your car to take more fuel or air depending on what it needs but overall there is lots to know when a tune/ECU is in order. But a chip and proper tune will run you 700$+ which is decent for what you will be getting but, It's always good to get all the parts you want before you get to the tuning stage. Once it's tuned for that one particular setup the ECU program will run occurring to it, But if you end up changing something again then well needs another tune in some cases.

Hope this helps a touch.

I installed a Moates Demon in my ECU, and an innovate wide-band O2 sensor in my CRX. The engine was (at the time) a bone stock single cam vtec engine with a Megan header. After tuning the fuel map, I got a minimal performance gain,improved throttle response and moderately better fuel mileage. Since it was the first step in building up a turbo setup, it was a worthwhile purchase. If I was only tuning a stock motor, I'd spend the money on cam gears and an intake manifold first.

That makes sense i was looking at it backwards. Engine/intake/exhaust mods first, then tune. What would a good setup that would fit my application? cams/gears etc? Best price to best performance?
ps. its 2000 ls.

A basic order of events for your build that I'd suggest would be:

1)Header
2)Cold Air intake
3)Polyurethane mounts
4)Adjustable cam gears, (good quality brand) both set at zero until tuning time.
5)throttle body & intake manifold
6)ECU & tune


hope that helps

there's no point of cam gears unless you have cams.

^^^^ +1 on that.

Polyurethane Mounts? Engine Mounts? What would this help me achieve?

Cams are very rarely indexed properly, the manufacturer doesn't always achieve true zero. Also adjustable cam gears allow you to shift the power band of your engine to wherever you like. (within reason)

Polyurethane mounts (or just the inserts) reduce unwanted motor assembly movement, and they reduce wheel hop. They do make your dash rattle a little.