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Sweet!


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Is the actuation point adjustable? I don't remember seeing that setting in Chrome. What software are you using? Is it just not on the P28 ECU's? Those are the ones I have the most experience with.

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good morning wrote:Hondas have butterfly valves too. They have a curcuit in the ECU for them already.

I have 7 outputs and PWM outputs.

Honda ECUs even have a LCD screen http://www.hrtuning.com/pages/...w-lcd/

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p05's are what? a 92-95 civic non vtec ecu? they dont have butterfly valves...

gsr's do, not much else in the 4 cylinder world of honda.

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ca18datsun510 wrote:
p05's are what? a 92-95 civic non vtec ecu? they dont have butterfly valves...

gsr's do, not much else in the 4 cylinder world of honda.
If I remember correctly H22's also have butterflies.

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float_6969 wrote:Is the actuation point adjustable? I don't remember seeing that setting in Chrome. What software are you using? Is it just not on the P28 ECU's? Those are the ones I have the most experience with.
We are using Neptune.

http://www.hrtuning.com

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yes, but that doesnt matter if you are using a p06 d series ecu.

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ca18datsun510 wrote:yes, but that doesnt matter if you are using a p06 d series ecu.
exactly I just think good morning was saying that some hondas have them, but the ecu were using has outputs, so we could use one of them for the butterflies.

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float_6969 wrote:Is the actuation point adjustable? I don't remember seeing that setting in Chrome. What software are you using? Is it just not on the P28 ECU's? Those are the ones I have the most experience with.
Yes. You are using the wrong base code. In crome, you need to use P72 base code to use IABs. P05, P06, and P28, it does not matter. They all use the same board.
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p05's are what? a 92-95 civic non vtec ecu? they dont have butterfly valves...

gsr's do, not much else in the 4 cylinder world of honda.
You can add the hardware for IABs. It costs like .50$

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keep me posted, I am actually planning of doing the same thing in my sr20det. The one thing that made me thought of doing it is: one- my brother created crome (honda tuning software) and two- i like using MAP instead of MAF (but thats personal preference).. Don't get me wrong, We were are creating a software like crome to work with the nissan ecu's, just don't have the time right now.

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i really want to know how well this works!!! very interested. i am setting up a CA18DE with ITB's and no butterflies, and i can already tell the megasquirt is awesome but too much $$ for me (on a huge budget), and fabrication is not much work for me.

very interested

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MegaSquirt is too much money?! It cost me 400 bucks. Tell me thats expensive for a stand alone, I dare you. That being said I am interested to see how this works out.

Also, no offense, but isn't Crome terrible and bug-ridden? My buddy has been doing the honda thing for about 7 years now and he doesn't even like talking about it. Of course if your brother created it, he probably knows how to make it work.

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r34 gtr wrote:MegaSquirt is too much money?! It cost me 400 bucks. Tell me thats expensive for a stand alone, I dare you. That being said I am interested to see how this works out.

Also, no offense, but isn't Crome terrible and bug-ridden? My buddy has been doing the honda thing for about 7 years now and he doesn't even like talking about it. Of course if your brother created it, he probably knows how to make it work.
its the cheapest thing i have found, you are right about that. but i am attempting to build this project for a extreme budget to see if its possible. Megasquirt is in my budget but that means i have to skimp out on some other hardware, that i would really like to have.

plus this just sounds cool. interested in seeing the results

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Their ya go

$139 for Megasquirt.

http://www.diyautotune.com/cat...ea97a

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Damn thats dirt cheap, and with MS1 you can use the CAS and whatnot.

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The_Chosen_One wrote:Their ya go

$139 for Megasquirt.

http://www.diyautotune.com/cat...ea97a
resolved thanks

good luck mang!

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I tried contacting you but I got no response, I havent seen you on aim so I thought you were away.

I'll send ya another email.

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r34 gtr wrote:MegaSquirt is too much money?! It cost me 400 bucks. Tell me thats expensive for a stand alone, I dare you. That being said I am interested to see how this works out.

Also, no offense, but isn't Crome terrible and bug-ridden? My buddy has been doing the honda thing for about 7 years now and he doesn't even like talking about it. Of course if your brother created it, he probably knows how to make it work.
i haven't had any problems with crome. you gotta remember i don't have the freebie software. like i said earlier its personal preference. i'll get it to work and i'll post my first dyno sheet and screenshots here.

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anybody actually running the oe CAS with megasquirt MS1 ?Can you run oe CAS with other coils (eg. ford EDIS, oe miata or DSM) also ?


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We just successfully started our SR20DET on a Honda ECU using Crome. Here are some links to the videos.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CO6rVh-8 ... AxuN7KxOOo

Notice that the MAF is fully disconnected since the charge pipes have been cut off to make some room for the the distributor.
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look at that, congratulatoins man!

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that is freaking awesome

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wirednj wrote:We just successfully started our SR20DET on a Honda ECU using Crome. Here are some links to the videos.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CO6rVh-8 ... AxuN7KxOOo

Notice that the MAF is fully disconnected since the charge pipes have been cut off to make some room for the the distributor.

Modified by wirednj at 8:59 PM 5/1/2008
Do you have any pics on how you made the adaptor plate. Im just waiting on my adaptor plate from my machine shop buddy. Other than that I have all the stuff ready to start my install.

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Awesome stuff man.

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we've finally found time to dyno the car. i'd say it was successful. will posting the dyno screen shot soon.

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any further luck with this setup? Id love to run a cheap Honda ecu for quad itbs on my high comp ca18de

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Any more info on this conversion?? Love to get a MAP setup ecu for quad itbs on my ca18de

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The_Chosen_One wrote:
c-rad wrote:Why not go with Hondata?
being a passenger in a neptune car and hondata car you can actually feel a difference, the neptune car felt significantly better.

I drove a neptune tuned car and I was extremly impressed.

http://www.hrtuning.com/
I'd blame the tuner for the differences, not the software.

A competent tuner will be able to use any worthwhile system to yield good results.


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