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Old 01-21-2010, 04:52 PM
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all the other wiring would stay, just the engine harness would get changed



again my choice would be to decide who is tuning the car and see what they suggest, figuring you will learn how to do it yourself will be a very costly mistake
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Old 01-28-2010, 03:34 PM
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Originally Posted by 89 Rag
I like the Rtek as well (thinking stage2 upgrade), even for its limitations. I would like to play with one with the pocketlogger a little prior to buying but I guess, for the money, I could just grab it and see what's what on my current set-up before making engine mods to make some comparisons vs. just stock w/SafcII.



If Banzai racing's adapter harness and coil mod worked to run the FD version of the Power FC with datalogit on my car, I'd almost want to go that way if the Rtek was too limited for the engine mods on the N/A that I have in mind.



It might appear like im trying to cheap out or not put in the work but understand, I totally went through ALL the wiring on this car when I did the resto a number of years back. Not the half-assed, band-aid, make it work for now stuff. I went through every inch of wire on that car: unbundeled, untaped, cleaned connectors and contacts, replaced bad wiring, checked and rechecked, installed all new sensors, shrink tubed, soldered...you name it, I did it. I'd rather not put in the time now on rewiring an engine harness for a standalone that requires a new harness on an N/A engine, even a heavily modded one, If what I've already done can support an under 400hp application unless its absolutely necessary.


we've done a few weird setups over the years. the race car had an e6x board in the stock FC ecu case. stock engine harness was used, 100% unchanged, and actually we had NONE of the trigger problems that everyone else had...



the yellow FC had a prototype haltech to mazda adaptor harness. one end is like the ECU plug, the other is the haltech plug. paul later built a little circuit board setup for this. again the mazda wiring is untouched, you can switch back to the stock ecu in minutes.



the ECU connectors aren't really hard to find anymore either.
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Old 02-03-2010, 12:10 AM
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Anyone tried the new Haltech Platinum Sport?



I have heard good things from a couple guys I know running them on 350's, curious if any of you have seen one in action.
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Old 02-03-2010, 07:08 AM
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Originally Posted by 89 Rag
Is that AEM's adapter harness box stock, or a mad scientist version there of?



I like Apexi's stuff, have used the SafcII in my car for a while now and have considered the Power FC, kinda looks like you guys have made it even easy(er) for an FC owner to make the switch.



I noticed you have two versions, sort of, in your TII vert project. The cosmo set-up had FD igniters and the run down for the fc adapation has the end user modifying the FC coil/igniters. Do you do the latter portion in house also, or strictly provide the info for the end user to perform?


It is less expensive and far less complicated to simply modify the tailing coil, then it is to install the FD ignitor. We have both sets of directions up as there are people installing 13B-rew engines that want to use the FD coils. In our vert we have the FD coils and ignitor. However sourcing another FC trailing coil is much easier and are how-to is very easy to follow as long as you know how to solder. Then if you decide to switch back to the stock ECU you just drop in a unmodifed coil and you are done.
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Old 02-03-2010, 06:08 PM
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Like Rob said, yours or your tuners ability to tune, and also if you are after rudimentary engine control or total vehicle control.

I'm a motec fan boy, if you need basic engine control, m2r, a little more M48, if you want total wizbang, m800, its hard to find something that the m800 can't do. Add a dash, and a power module for a pro install. No more harness slop and exterior input integration headaches.

My other picks in order would be Fcon V-pro, Link, then power FC..
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back in the day the link wasn't so hot, but it seems like its gotten a lot better recently
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