bluebird swap using emanage

[castilano9929]

So ive been wanting to do the bluebird swap, u13 sr20det in my 1.6 200sx 98. I read on here you can use a stock se-r ecu and us emanage along with it. But on greddy.com which emanage would i pick from the list they have. What is all the wiring I have to do? I plan on using the 91-94 2.0 ecu and harness because jwt said engine light would come on because of odb2 and other things. Any help would be great, thanx

[nametakennow]

Unfortunately, using a 91-94 ECU on a '98 will cause a whole other problem with emissions. The tester will plug in and read nothing (or get errors, or something else not kosher) because it will expect OBDII. Check PA's rules on doing an OBDI conversion.

As for the Emanage itself, I honestly have no clue. Hopefully someone with experience will chime in.

[castilano9929]

JWT said to use the 91-94 so no ODB2 codes would pop up. For the rules in PA about that swap i'm not too worried about. I will be using a wiring harness from 91-94 year also if I didn't mention that. Thanks for helping. But still need to know if the emanage would work and how. Also does JWT do a really good job when you send the ecu out to them to put the turbo program in it, or am I better off with using emanage. Some people ive talked to said the ecu wouldn't be tuned good enough. Ive been going back n forth on this, just want to do it the best way possible for the engine to run top notch.

[nametakennow]

JWT can tune an ECU to work well. A piggyback will help with fine tuning, but the JWT tune will get you on the road at the least.

My point wasn't about whether OBDII codes would pop up, my point was that the tester will plug in to an OBDII port and not get an OBDII signal. I don't know what that will do with the actual emissions test. Maybe it would assume it's clean, but I bet the tester would show that the OBDII test isn't interfacing with the ECU properly (since you'd have an OBDI harness). Thus, in order for this to work, the car would have to be tested under OBDI, which would mean a conversion that PA may or may not allow/have restrictions on.

[castilano9929]

I got what your saying on the OBDII. Still would like to do the emanage to get the best performance, but just need someone to help me out with that. Also if I use emanage, then I wouldn't really need the gauges right? I already have a boost controller that tells me what my boost is. Has anyone had any problems with a JWT tuned ecu for their turbo car?

[nametakennow]

I've never seen a complaint about a JWT ECU other than that you have to send it to them and wait.

Most people get an oil pressure gauge when they swap or turbo a DE since the low pressure light only comes on when it's already too late. Some people opt for oil temp and EGT on top of that.

[castilano9929]

Yea. Then I would probably go with the oil pressure gauge atleast and maybe an rpm since I know my factory rpm is probably way off

[caughtbycops]

I had problems with emanage, i was not able to get it to work, but i believe that was just my luck, cause i went through 2 z32 mafs, i bought an aem ems after that.