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[I hate Brian]

Any good ?

[Lucas1988]

it seems to make a difference what you're using it for, i.e. daily runner or track car. What are you thinking of using it for? Have you looked at other similarly priced kits on the market?

[nicklouse]

Have a search on here. There seems to be some support issues. But again you never hear the good stories.

[I hate Brian]

Hi daily runner, what other companies are there ? Megasquirt but they don't do throttle bodies, Emerald again no throttle body.

[Midas Mk1]

I’ll be honest efi is the sort of thing you have to do research on, it’s not a simple answer and you really need to understand it yourself if you go for it, otherwise you’ll be asking endless questions.

Edited by Midas Mk1, 29 December 2021 - 03:17 PM.

[PoolGuy]

I have the SC efi, I understand that the SC mappable ignition system isn’t very well supported, but I’ll be using it with the Polestar system, which is exceptionally well supported. Initially I’ll be using the Polestar in ign only mode and adding the efi at a later date to get a realistic idea of the improvement that the efi makes.

 

I’d suggest that it’s more realistic to think of it as a very well calibrated electronic carb than a normal efi system. 

[Lord Oversill]

Good luck with SC, not the most helpful once they have your money.

[I hate Brian]

Thanks for all the comments any other products out there other than mentioned

[Steve220]

The manifold set up, good. Ecu is utter garbage.

SC provide little to no support. Dated/difficult website.

[Spider]

Hi daily runner, what other companies are there ? Megasquirt but they don't do throttle bodies, Emerald again no throttle body.

 

Canems have (had ?) a kit, it's been around way longer than the SC has;-

 

https://www.canems.co.uk/

 

There was a thread a while back on it;-

https://www.theminif...ems-ecu-system/

[I hate Brian]

Cheers Chris will look into this thank you

[Indigo]

I have had the kit on the daily drive for a few years now.

Car runs well, except for the first couple of minutes when it is warming up.

The throttle body and manifold are good but there is no facility for an air bypass for fast idle, cold running (this would be easy to overcome).

And the ECU does not support an air bypass setup, which can't be overcome.

And it is difficult to find dyno guys familiar with the Delta 400 and SX tune software.

The ECU does support a MAP sensor but this is not part of the standard kit.

 

My preferance now would be to ditch the SC ECU and fit a Haltech Elite with built in MAP sensor and fitting the air bypass for fast idle.

I am thinking of doing this but cost is about $2,000 AUD which includes the ECU, new air bypass valve, new loom and an AFR wideband sensor.

 

As for SC support, I rang them a couple of times, they gave some ideas but was not much succes.

[sonscar]

Buy a Megasquirt,visit a scrapyard to womble some components,fabricate some manifolds and assorted bits.Read extensively and get a good grounding in how EFI works then run with it,gain some new skills along the way.
This may not be for you.Steve..

[Spider]

,,,,,,,and fit a Haltech Elite with built in MAP sensor and fitting the air bypass for fast idle.

I am thinking of doing this but cost is about $2,000 AUD which includes the ECU, new air bypass valve, new loom and an AFR wideband sensor..

 

The telephone support for Haltech is first class. I found their software quite intuitive and I'm all thumbs with anything IT.

 

I got an Elite 550 with a basic harness, they threw in a complete set of additional plug pins and went from there. I wouldn't like to use a custom loom as the wire routing is likely not what I would like, along with additional connectors from loom to engine (so when removing the engine, it's only 1 plug) and I also standardised the loom wire colours to align with the rest of the car. While it has Injection Capabilities, I'm only using it for Ignition. I only paid around $1200.00 and that included Air and Coolant senders.

All the same, with coolant temp input, you can program the ECU using that to advance the ignition timing a few degrees when it's cold for a fast idle.

 

I haven't had direct experience with other brands, so I can't compare, in that regards, but I an impressed and very happy with the Haltech, not just for their support but also the way their gear is made.
 

[stoneface]

I run an emerald ecu with weber throttle bodies.

The emerald ecu works well and is easy to setup.

I've not use the customer support for years but it was good when I did and their rolling road setting up was great.

It doesn't matter if the ecu supplier doesn't supply throttle bodies. You can mix and match.

What ever you get make sure you have someone local who can map it or you can have the software to do it yourself.