Did you install the Stinger Standalone yourself or did you have someone install it? That's going to be the next purchase I make for my car. I know my afc is messing with my timing. I"m having to pull almost 50% of fuel at 4000-6000 rpm's. My injectors are too big for the stock ecu I guess. I was just wondering how hard the Standalone was to install if you're not a wiring guru.
Thinking about changing to emanage blue
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You know if I buy it then I'm getting it from www.driftmotion.com ...............:icon_bigg
Thanks Reaper. I'm going to check into and see the pros and cons of the standalone.
Thanks Reaper. I'm going to check into and see the pros and cons of the standalone.
suprahero said:
I put it in myself. It was easy to do because Aaron supplied the plug & play harness. The only trouble I had was getting the laptop to connect to the ECU so I could load the tables, but as always, Aaron saved my bacon over the phone. I had loaded a set of drivers for the USB - serial cable adapters, but it was the wrong ones. After I reloaded it with the correct adapters, the laptop connected to the ECU right away.
With the 440cc table that Aaron gave me, it cranked up with a little coaxing. I trimmed the fuel a little, bumped up the idle & the car ran well enough for me to drive it to Atlanta today (110 miles) so I can get it tuned. Funny part is, even though it isn't near 'tuned' enough for my motor, I got a lot better gas mileage than the stock ECU. Go figure....
All in all, I'm excited to see the difference. The tuner is a well respected dude around here. I talked to him about the direction I wanted him to go (broader power band, more torque, faster spool) & he said that it would be no problem. I fact, after telling him what I would be happy with power wise, he just chuckled. I'm have a feeling that I'll be surprised, but I don't want get hopes up just yet.
My advice, bite the bullet & make the switch. I would have done it when i shipped my car to Aaron had i know that it was available a little earlier, but I had already dropped a lot of coin on my EMB set up.
If this tuner is in Atlanta, then I could just drive over there. It's only about two and a half hours away. How long did he say it would take? The way you typed it, it looked like you were going to have to leave it for a while. Thanks for the info.
suprahero said:
The shop I took it to is Mainstream Performance. I left my car with them on Sunday because I flew to NJ on Monday & I won't be returning until tomorrow. I had them put the 2J cams & HKS cam gears in too since I don't want to have to have it tuned again & I didn't have the time to do it myself like I thought I would. I just talked to the guy there to see if it will be ready to go tomorrow. He had just got the car on the dyno an hour before I called so he had some time to get some of the tune done. He asked me several questions about how I wanted to have the car tuned & also what the car will be used for. All in all I'm really happy with this shop so far. They are setting my car up for what I want (power band & torque), not the way they want it...
Oh, the early word on the difference.....go here