R33 brain transplant

[Amir]

Just had a read of the Autospeed article from the current issue "R33 brain transplant".

Hopefully the owner of the car can comment on the article.

Knowling, mentioned the car was considerably quicker. Any figures?

How bad is the wheelspin?

How does the car feel, revving to 7500r.p.m?

Have you experienced other problems after the article was written?

Detonation problems?

Any plans for future mods? If so get them to do another article on the car.

[Guest | hype^ |]

brain transplant??

you mean a different ECU??:confused:

[b2barker]

R33 Brain Transplant

[Guest ylwgtr]

just a bit of advice to ppl,i would recommend against putting any type of aftermarket efi computer on it other than japanese ones.The factory ecu can be sent over to japan and re mapped to produce staggering results.....this is true...i have seen it..i have done it.Just a bit of advice take it or not...

[Jay95R33]

You don't have to send them o/s either.

Have a look in the for sales section. R32 ECU's can be remapped for the R32's and even modified to suit the R33's.

[Guest ylwgtr]

i wouldnt trust anyone in aust to do it.

[Gradenko]

Why not? Do the Japs drink special joo-joo juice that makes them better tuners? I know at least 2 excellent efi tuners of Japanese imports, and I'm in the backwater town of Perth! There are more than capable tuners Australia wide.

And what the buggery is the point of sending an ecu off to be mapped when the afr of the actual engine can't be measured in real time? Makes it as useless as those plug'n'play replacement chip bollocks, doesn't it.

Don't forget that Australia is home to Haltech, Motec and Autronic - some of the biggest names in ECUs the world over.

[Guest ylwgtr]

The japanese companys like trust hks spend millions on development.They have off the shelf ecu's for a particular setup that works right out of the create,without blowing up engines and what not.Ofcourse they know there own computer systems better than us.And alsothe use of such aftermarket system dont allow alot of features that the fact ecu does......try getting an R34 GTRs drive system to run on a autronic......imposible.Also get these guys to tune the R34 computer....i dont think so.Japs build em they know how to mod em

[Guest ylwgtr]

ok take this into consideration......i got a supra for my friend and it had these mods....Trust T88 turbine kit,japanese aftermarket fuel pump+reg,sard injectors,2.0bar of turbo boost(although this was very dicey)It also had a host of aftermarket goodies in the shock department,brakes,gauges and all the rest of it.Now this thing ran on Pump gas and guess what type of ecu it had?????

Factory one rewritten by C.O.C.Kpit.Now when people seen this car perform on the dyno at autosalon,they couldnt beleive it had the factory ecu.Now the car produced 386RWKW at 22psi.The car has 90,000klms and its driven EVERYDAY.Now...the car is still performing strong,although another engine is being built for more power.....so if you know a tune shop that will tune the FACTORY ecu,i will challenge them to do it without ****ting the new engine...and the engine will have noshortcuts so it wont be because of faulty asembly componants.Whats there number?

[Amir]

Went into the for sale section. A few people are selling remapped r32 ecu's for r33's. Why don't they remap the r33 ecu for an r33?

So lets take the challenge, give the number of tuning shops that can remap factory ecu's better than the japaneese. Remaping the standard one, sounds a lot better than going for an aftermarket system.

[blind_elk]

Originally posted by Amir

Why don't they remap the r33 ecu for an r33?

Because it can't be done. R33 factory ECU can't be tampered with.

[Jay95R33]

With the R33 ECU's the chip is read only - can't be re-mapped.

BUT - you can (and they do) install daughterboards with a seperate EPROM that can be tuned.

Personnally I wouldn't bother about sending a ECU to Japan to get retuned.

One thing to remeber - how would HKS in Japan know if your injectors can only run at 80% safely? Do the places in Japan know that our 98RON fuels tend to differ slightly, which could be the difference between detonation or not? Do the places in Japan know what the climate is in Canberra, or in Darwin? There's a big temp difference there !!!

And I'm sure that would effect the tuning.

I've been with Hitman the famous Haltec tuner, while he has tuned a car. And he has done a amazing job. BTW: The Hitman does work all around the world - so why send something O/S when it can be done a few hours away?

There is one bloke on the performance forums that has found a good tuner in Sydney(?) that can tune daughterboards for the R33 computer, basically you just need a ROMReader.

Just my 2c.

J

[1GTR2GO]

I wouldn't mind knowing why it is so expensive to purchase a reprogrammed EPROM. If all you are doing is replacing the factory ROM. These chips typically cost less than $30.00

[Guest ylwgtr]

blind elk, R33 ecu's can be done...i have had them done.....

Ok so whos the guy thats going to remap the supras factory ecu then????Can i have his number please?

[Amir]

Jay95R33,

Any good tuners in canberra/ Hume?

Would'nt by any chance have a grey coloured skyline?

[Jay95R33]

I don't know of any tuners in Canberra. I'm sure theres a few around, but from what I've read around, it's worth the trip to Sydney.

Yepp, well Silver anyway pretty close to grey

[Gradenko]

Originally posted by ylwgtr

They have off the shelf ecu's for a particular setup that works right out of the create,without blowing up engines and what not.

Personally, I'd never reconmend off the shelf tuning fixes to anyone. Well, not to friends anway.

Originally posted by ylwgtr

try getting an R34 GTRs drive system to run on a autronic......imposible.

Well, no. It wouldn't I suppose. Although any tuner with half a clue would leave the factory ecu in place to do its job and wire up the aftermarket ecu to soley take care of fuel and ignition timing.

All this doesn't matter though, I don't want to promote aftermarket ecus. I think what you intended to say in you first post is that factory ecus are more than capable if they are suitably tuned. If this is so, I wholey agree. As revealed to me recently (by rev210), factory maps have had a huge number of hours spent on them spent perfecting low rpm drivability, and thats the sort of thing that just can't be replicated privately.

I can't help you find a jza80 tuner (this is a skyline forum, afterall), but I do know the 2JZ factory ecu can be mapped outside of Japan. A quick Google revealed http://jcp.excitewebpages.com/main.php3?pr...primNavIndex=0& who sell daughter boards for jza80's. They don't specify on the web page, but I assume they can custom tune for each car.

What I'm trying to say is, tuning jap cars can be done properly outside of Japan and comments like "i wouldnt trust anyone in aust to do it" just aren't fashionable any more.