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Haltech E6K Or Nistune For A Rb20

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Hey I was wondering what ecu would be better for my setup mods are

Td06h-20g 8cm housing

550 injectors

3 inch exhaust

35 mm turbosmart external wastegate 17 psi

Stainless high mount

32 gtr cooler

I know nistune will be cheaper but lets put price aside on this one

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I would go with nistune, for your set up it would be easier and cheaper, and if you compare the difference in price(you cant put aside the price factor) V extra's you will get with the e6k then there isnt enough there to warrant going the haltech.

I dont know if it has changed now but many yrs ago haltech were one of the best you could get but there were very few people who knew how to tune them.

Hands down i would go with nistune before haltech, i would even go with power fc before haltech for your car.

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Crans Mentor

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Depends what you want to do to the car.

If you simply want an programmable ecu to make use of your mods then go the Nistune.

If you want to log a crap load of things, have launch control, anti lag, boost control, sequential injection(not sure if E6K supports this) and as many cool haltech accessories as you can get then go the Haltech.

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I know lots about haltech and how many I've pulled out of various vehicles over the past eight years.

I'm sure their new platinum series are just dandy! Cant comment on them though cause I have no conifdence in there ECU's since they went windows based.

Bsa Mentor

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Hey thanks for the replys I was just asking beacause I got offered a Haltech for a rb20 off a mate it's brand new was for a conversion but never used so for around 500 that's y I said price isn't a issue it has the igniters and it's a plug and play does that change any minds or should I say na and just go with the nistune

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Hey thanks for the replys I was just asking beacause I got offered a Haltech for a rb20 off a mate it's brand new was for a conversion but never used so for around 500 that's y I said price isn't a issue it has the igniters and it's a plug and play does that change any minds or should I say na and just go with the nistune

If you have local tuner that is good with haltechs and everything is truly plug n play IE: no chopping up the loom, then yes, it changes everything, go the haltech.

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In that case go the haltech

You guys dont have a clue.

You realise in going to the haltech you will be batch firing injectors and coils! The std ECU is fully sequential on both. It will do everything about 100times better than the haltech ever will.

There is a reason haltech doesn't support the earlier ECU's anymore is beacuse they are shit.

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You guys dont have a clue.

You realise in going to the haltech you will be batch firing injectors and coils! The std ECU is fully sequential on both. It will do everything about 100times better than the haltech ever will.

There is a reason haltech doesn't support the earlier ECU's anymore is beacuse they are shit.

Umm I think your the one without the clue. The stock ECU is not fully sequential. It has 2 injector drivers.

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RB20DET have 6 injectors drives and 6 ignition outputs.

From the Nistune forums where people actually have a clue about the stock ecu, they have disassembled the firmware and run these ecu's on a test bench

In ECU pinouts, injectors 4&6 are swapped. However, there is no need to fix that. If you look inside R32 rb20det ECU, you'll see that it only has two injector drivers! One for injectors 1,3,5, other for injectors 2,4,6. So injectors 4 and 6 are the same signal, the pins are connected directly to each other anyway..

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If I have problems with the wastegate I'll upgrade but for now it will do. I'm going to run the Haltech leaves me more options in the future also every one I know that has one has never had any problems and my tuner should have no problems tuning it. That's everyone

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Personally I don't think there is a huge performance or fuel economy in going to fully sequential from batch mode but if you can I would. Personally I'd stick with the nistune as it looks legal, easy to tune, cheap and plug and play. That and there are more nistune tuners than haltech tuners, I've heard the software is a bit average to use as well though this was earlier models from years ago.

Umm I think your the one without the clue. The stock ECU is not fully sequential. It has 2 injector drivers.

Interesting, I had read that it was fully sequential before 4k and then went batch mode but no one ever confirmed either way. I have been told the neo ECUs are fully sequential, do you know if this is the case?

If you could link me to the nistune thread I would be very interested to read about it.

Thanks.

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