Dave@TM-developments.com
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Wise man, take his advice
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wat ecu to get
- Thread starter vick
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Wise man, take his advice
starletsam
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Hmmmm hold out for a emu then do you think?
e-manage ultimate have gone through about 5 generations of development as greddy got it wrong so much. The first ones components would touch the case and short out they tried to fix this with nylon stranded tape. second/third ones parts would fall off the boards. and would suddenly break leaving you stranded. Software has gone through many many revisions and several features still do not work (knock for example).
There were serious issues with injector control where the e-manage would fail to see the stock ECU sending pulses to the EMU and so the car would randomly not start/run. On recent EMU versions on some cars when you plug a PC into the USB port the EMU will glitch and the car may stall.
E-manage blue is by comparison totally reliable, yes its far less capable but if you need all the features of the greddy ultimate unit you should be looking for an after market ECU anyway. I'd probably recommend something like a link ecu pretty cheap but capable for these kind of cars.
E-manage ultimate at a rrp of £600 for the unit alone is very poor value for money. I'd recommend the AEM piggyback fuel & ignition controller if you have to have any advanced piggy back unit, with built in map sensor and very similar features, oh and actually has some manufacture support unlike greddy USA who don't even know their own products.
I speak from experience of fitting hundreds of blue and ultimate (which I now generally avoid) since they first hit production years ago.
Ed
There were serious issues with injector control where the e-manage would fail to see the stock ECU sending pulses to the EMU and so the car would randomly not start/run. On recent EMU versions on some cars when you plug a PC into the USB port the EMU will glitch and the car may stall.
E-manage blue is by comparison totally reliable, yes its far less capable but if you need all the features of the greddy ultimate unit you should be looking for an after market ECU anyway. I'd probably recommend something like a link ecu pretty cheap but capable for these kind of cars.
E-manage ultimate at a rrp of £600 for the unit alone is very poor value for money. I'd recommend the AEM piggyback fuel & ignition controller if you have to have any advanced piggy back unit, with built in map sensor and very similar features, oh and actually has some manufacture support unlike greddy USA who don't even know their own products.
I speak from experience of fitting hundreds of blue and ultimate (which I now generally avoid) since they first hit production years ago.
Ed
Emerald is very good value for money. Has three maps too (its another one I map) however its not directly suited to the starlet and will need sensor changes etc. It however is VERY well supported by its developer Dave Walker. I fitted one to a Porsche turbo recently and it worked very well.