Originally Posted by
Adam-M
For someone like myself coming from an L6, original loom, green injectors, distributor ect I was originally going to go L8, new loom, wasted spark, closed loop, Siemens blacks, anti lag ect ect and I added it up to be nearly 2.5k which I thought was bonkers on an old ecu and second hand injectors ect.
Decided a simtek would best fit my needs, can be supplied fitted and mapped local to me and works out £2300 with new wrc loom and coil on plug. With this I can add sensors for low fuel and oil pressure to stop my engine grenading where as the Weber would happily allow that. Also I like the idea of drive by wire throttle, it takes over as the idle control valve, when using anti lag it opens the throttle rather than having to file away at the ISCV and also auto blips on downshift.
Each to their own, im starting from a basic spec car so makes sense to me. You’ll notice the amount of L8 ecus forsale recently where the owners are going aftermarket
Good point, I forgot about the sensors, Mark has talked about a few of those things and we have agreed to add cooling fan control and maybe drive by wire to the roller barrel inlet, it is nice to be able to upgrade as you go (viper needs an add on for drive by wire) so he prefers emtron now.