New ECU for stock 1.6 turbo?
- freyguy_412
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New ECU for stock 1.6 turbo?
Hey, I'm trying to get everything together to plan a turbo conversion on my stock B6. I've seen a couple guys on here who are running this currently and wanted to know if you had to change ECU's to make it work. Unless I need a new one I will probably send mine into Jet and have them flash it to match the turbo and other mods, then wire in a piggy back air/fuel controller to tweak it to my standards (will also have an electronic boost controller). I just wanna make sure I don't need the B6T ECU or anything. Thanks!
It might be slow, but it's not a civic!
I was talkin to a guy who was sellin a manifold to turbo the sohc B6 and he said that they were runing a stock 1.8 sohc Ecu outta a protoge (DX model I assume) and it worked great, plug and play. But the only real reason he gave me about using the 1.8 ecu, was to get more fuel. I am fairly sure that your stock ecu will work though, but its something to consider
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no that ECU will not work on the DOHC mx-3. it uses a VAF meter while the DOHC mx-3 uses a MAF.
I wouldnt waste your time sending it to Jet. Whatever fuel map they might give you will need to be tweeked via a piggyback anyway when under various conditions (temp., boost pressure, etc): so why not just use the piggyback to do it all? also its (Jet) pretty much just a generic program that bumps up the timing and so forth which is not what you want in a turbo application. save yourself some money and invest in a wideband o2 sensor...
I wouldnt waste your time sending it to Jet. Whatever fuel map they might give you will need to be tweeked via a piggyback anyway when under various conditions (temp., boost pressure, etc): so why not just use the piggyback to do it all? also its (Jet) pretty much just a generic program that bumps up the timing and so forth which is not what you want in a turbo application. save yourself some money and invest in a wideband o2 sensor...
B6T powered MX-3 - sold
Stage 3ish 03 WRX - sold
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Stage 3ish 03 WRX - sold
03 S2000 - current/ for sale