Robinson Rants about ECUs and Unichip
Posted: Sat Mar 09, 2002 8:13 pm
The Unichip came preprogrammed becausr TurboXS dyno tested it on an otherwise stock new WRX. any other mods would require reprogramming it. It is about one-fourth the size of an ECU and is plug and play for that application.
The Unichip is cool, but their North American distribution system is nothing but shit. They have local "dealers" who are just some booger eatin morons working out of a trailer house with no dyno and who have installed only one Unichip and that was on their stolen Camaro. Their world headquaters gives your email address to your local guttersnipe, then he never contacts you.
About the WRX STi JDM fac tory ECU. I wouldn't touch it. It will plug right in to a BC-BF harness, but it is programmed for their hottest engines using the highest octane street pump gas in the world. When the dudes in UK bought JDM Sti cars and ran them on UK "petrol", they blew engines left and right. Our gas is even worse than in UK and that ECU would blow up a lesser EJ20 at least twice as fast as it would a type RA engine. We in the automotive performance "third-world" known as the US have dog piss for fuel and we need to be ever cognizant of that fact when tuning our cars.
Who's Your Daddy????
Bill Robinson
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The Unichip is cool, but their North American distribution system is nothing but shit. They have local "dealers" who are just some booger eatin morons working out of a trailer house with no dyno and who have installed only one Unichip and that was on their stolen Camaro. Their world headquaters gives your email address to your local guttersnipe, then he never contacts you.
About the WRX STi JDM fac tory ECU. I wouldn't touch it. It will plug right in to a BC-BF harness, but it is programmed for their hottest engines using the highest octane street pump gas in the world. When the dudes in UK bought JDM Sti cars and ran them on UK "petrol", they blew engines left and right. Our gas is even worse than in UK and that ECU would blow up a lesser EJ20 at least twice as fast as it would a type RA engine. We in the automotive performance "third-world" known as the US have dog piss for fuel and we need to be ever cognizant of that fact when tuning our cars.
Who's Your Daddy????
Bill Robinson
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