Which After market ecu???

[slideways]

Hi All
as the title suggests how do the after market ecu's compare, i'm looking at replacing the standard one and would like some advice on Which is:
.The most user friendly
.cost effective
.best allrounder
or do i stick with the lucas and chip it??
Thanks
Rich

Edited by slideways on Wednesday 16th July 23:30

[Pupp]

Depends what you want to achieve. Another option might be to keep the 14cux for fuel, with or without an aftermarket chip as necessary, but go for mapped ign/coilpacks rather than the dizzy based setup. Unless you go for pretty major changes on the motor, the sprk side of things has always seemed to me to have great potential for gains and the 14cux is actually a pretty smart bit of kit given its relatively humble processing power by current standards.

Search 'Emerald', KMS or MS/Megasquirt on here and you'll find tons of material that might narrow the choice a bit. Might put you off altogether mind, too

[slideways]

thanks pupp
well the plan is to replace the exhaust with the new one from clive f or the sc route or both? but there are good gains to be had by with a new ecu and less expensive in the long run if mods are add at a later date,
i just thought it may be the best place to start as i already have an mc1 cam stage 3 heads big induction kit and inlet
Rich

[Markh]

I run an Autronic SM 4, with various other mods 368bhp/393 ftlbs

[Pupp]

Markh said:

I run an Autronic SM 4, with various other mods 368bhp/393 ftlbs

That on a 450 Mark? Great figures if so... what's the engine spec?

[Columbo]

Omex are very good, that is what we used at Marcos, and i can put you in contact with a guy their who worked on the development of the mapping for Marcos.

But the best in the market I have been told is Motec

[rev-erend]

I went for the Emerald.

Great features and very user friendly.

Much cheaper than many of the others out there.

[trackcar]

I fit and map 3 types of ECU .. emerald, kms and mbe. at our level I don't see any point in going for anything more expensive.

[The AJP Griff]

I used to run an Omex,which was a lovely ecu to use,and with a good level of sophistication should you want to move on later.If i were buying again though,it would be an emerald,as it's a bit less outlay,still easy to use,and theres more of them out there,which will always be a help when you want to compare or discuss issues and ideas.
In reply to your last question,YES,bin that restrictive Lucas system-you'll not look back!

[Johno]

I run Emerald for a number of reasons . .

1 - It has a lot of features allowing you to play with it relatively easily.
2 - It is more advanced than you need for the RV8 but therefore alows easier future development should it be required.
3 - Readily available data on the net
4 - Emerald's workshop and RR are only 25miles up the road from me

I am very very happy with it and Emerald's service and support. I need to re-map a couple of items on mine since it has settled down abit and will be doing so at the weekend, it's as easy as that.

It also has a data loggin ability which helps a lot.

[Markh]

Pupp said:

Markh said:

I run an Autronic SM 4, with various other mods 368bhp/393 ftlbs

That on a 450 Mark? Great figures if so... what's the engine spec?

Its a little bit bigger than 450, engine built by Jamie at Castle Race Engines, really pleased

[hiltonig]

Yep another vote for Emerald, good backup and advice, If you want you they can put you intouch with Paul Dove to install and build the loom so its nearly a drive in and out option if thats what you want. Thats the route I took.

[dbv8]

hiltonig said:

Yep another vote for Emerald, good backup and advice, If you want you they can put you intouch with Paul Dove to install and build the loom so its nearly a drive in and out option if thats what you want. Thats the route I took.

Where? and how much if you dont mind me asking?

[hiltonig]

Hiya just pm me i will email you back

[dbv8]

hiltonig said:

Hiya just pm me i will email you back

You got mail, cheers.

[350Matt]

Go for Emerald still can't be beat for the cash

Matt

[Johno]

hiltonig said:

Yep another vote for Emerald, good backup and advice, If you want you they can put you intouch with Paul Dove to install and build the loom so its nearly a drive in and out option if thats what you want. Thats the route I took.

Paul phoned me yesterday about your install actually . . . Was nice to help out as he's such a top fella.

[hiltonig]

Johno said:

hiltonig said:

Yep another vote for Emerald, good backup and advice, If you want you they can put you intouch with Paul Dove to install and build the loom so its nearly a drive in and out option if thats what you want. Thats the route I took.

Paul phoned me yesterday about your install actually . . . Was nice to help out as he's such a top fella.[/quote

agreed and thanks its worth a , Also having the traction control installed now

[Johno]

hiltonig said:

Johno said:

hiltonig said:

Yep another vote for Emerald, good backup and advice, If you want you they can put you intouch with Paul Dove to install and build the loom so its nearly a drive in and out option if thats what you want. Thats the route I took.

Paul phoned me yesterday about your install actually . . . Was nice to help out as he's such a top fella.

agreed and thanks its worth a , Also having the traction control installed now

No problem, mean to ask him where he's placing the air temp sensor. I'm going to move mine from the current old AFM location as it's absolutely crap for temp corrections. I'm going to tap the airbox and get Paul to make me up an extension to there. I was going to check with him what he was doing on yours, can't off the top of my head recall the air intake arrangment on the Chimaera . . . May be worth considering.

Edited by Johno on Friday 18th July 12:55

[Zumbruk]

I have an Omex with which I am very pleased. Pity about the knob that installed it (not me!)