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S-afc2 Vs E-manage Vs - Powerfc

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I've installed and tuned an emanage on my old rb20 and my current rb25. There's nothing wrong with them. If you are comparing to other piggy backs then the $100 premium for an emanage over an safc is easily justified.

Also consider auto owners who cant use a pfc (unless piggy backed, oh the irony), CA and RB20 owners who will have a 900 dollar extra cost to go from an safc/emanage to a pfc and it's not such a bad thing.

The pfc is better. You will get no arguement from me. I run one now. I would never go back to an emanage as i found it's limits and what i consider to be it's biggest flaw, which is no correction for injector lag. Change to a sard injector on an rb25 with an emanage and you just can't make it work correctly. That was my motivation to upgrade, and considering an rb25 pfc is more reasonably priced than the rb20 one i originally looked at, i thought it was an acceptable price to pay for the added benefit of a full stand alone ecu.

But prior to the injector swap it was quite happy to let me run a z32 afm, i could get fairly flat 12 afr's on wide open throttle and it wasn't a pig to drive. I probably wouldn't have swapped it if i didn't run into the injector issue.

Shit canning the emanage doesn't help anyone. Pointing out where it fails so people can make an educated decision about which way to go is a different thing.

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amen. i also found the powerfc much better during gear changes, it felt heaps smoother. but thats probably due to the extra ign timing and tune more than ecu change itself.

heaps better than what mate?

you havn't been able to justify your reasons for sh1t canning the emanage, how are you able to compare if you haven't used both of them?

you are just going on assumptions! don't be fooled into thinking an emanage is less programmable than a full replacement ecu, compared with a powerfc you can do pretty much all the same stuff.

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emange gets a bum wrap around here for nothing.

sure it isnt no power fc, but for alot of ppl who arent going all out and dont intend on ever doing so it is perfectly fine for them.

and is much cheaper than a pfc, especially for rb20 ppl.

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