Originally Posted by lickshot
safe chav... i read alot of ur replys to people on here and its god damn unbeleivable the amount of shit u kno!!!
In a good way mate!!
anyway uve made me a bit curious now.. as a few people have said it wld be fine to run this on the origional 1.8 ecu that the car is already running...
What wld be the advantages/disadvantages of running the 1.8 ecu apposed to the 2.0 ecu???
I kno that opinions are like arseholes and everyone has one...lol but wanna get as much info about this before its actually done....
Nuff respect for u fella!!!
Thanks for your kind words
Personally if it was me doing it i'd want to go the whole hog and make sure it had the proper ECU in there, the characteristics of a 2.0 litre engine are going to be very different to that of a 1.8 litre engine.
Yes, i expect in reality many people have run their engines on 1.8 ECU's without any serious problems but its never going to run aswell as it could do, and car manufacturers dont spend millions of pounds developing management systems only to be bettered by a home DIY'er that thinks running a 1.8 ECU produces the same results, because it won't!
Obviously if you start going into chips then its a different ball game, depends what your budget is like and how easy the conversion is/how confident you feel as to what decision you make over it
