can anyone help me!
a friend of mine is building a kit car, and has bought the front end of a type r, so that he can use the engine and loom! but he has no ecu or key for the ignition ( which i think goes hand in hand with the ecu)

he can buy a new ecu from honda for 800 quid, but he would need the key for the car aswell! can the ecu be flashed so that he wouldnt need to use the key???

he is also thinking about buying another engine and modding this one,,(throttle bodies bla bla) so manybe a standard ecu isnt the best way to go! is there anyone plug and play ecus out there for a type r? anyone used it?

thanks
gareth

 

Gareth leave this with me m8!

I might be able to get hima bling mugen ecu!

 

tell more then

 

Well basically!

My m8 owns his own jap import/perf tunin co here in Bristol!

He gets stuff cheap cheap from Jappy land! Anu7 he bought a few bling mugen ecu’s! but they don’t work with English spec’d type r’s because of the codded key immob system on them! But if yer m8 ditches all that & fit say a push button start he should be able to use the mugen ecu!(this i need to check) Which will b perfect for a tunned engine!

 

If not then he is bets of comtactin abbey motorsport about there Hondata systems!

which do work with english systems!


but i think he would still have to buy a standard ecu! which i mgiht b able to get

 

found out more then my friend

 

shall do!

will call ya when i know!

 

 

bttt for anyone who may know ways and means aswell

 

Use Hondata mate, its the bollocks, use it on some HUGE power Hondas in America.

Fuck some wanky Mugen ECU, trust me, thas barely more than a rechip

 

Ste the Hondata setup is that like a chip!? or is it a hwole ecu unit!? i.e. will G's m8 still need a standard type r ecu!?

G, I should be seeing my m8 on sat!

 

cool both of you

 

Lewis- Hondata is a proper replacement mappable ECU that uses the existing loom and sensors and is VERY trick, lots n lots of features, very capable.

From what ive seen, MUGEN ECUs have just been chipped std ones

 

Not really looked @ them to be honest!

just knew he had a few over form jap & he runs 1 on his jap DC5 & made a good difference witht eh zorst filter & shit!

 

Hondata are standard ecus which are modded

 

Yes, but mappable, the Honda ECUs are incredibly advanced, just need to be able to map em, and with hondata you can

 

steve is correct on that G!

 

but my friend would still have to buy a standard ecu at 700 odd quid and he still havent got round the immobliser