Greddy eManage
 

Has anyone peeped out the Greddy eMange unit? It is a piggyback ECU enhancment that is more like a Stand alone, but costs far less than a Haltech or Tec3 system. Check it out:

Link to eManage info

I think this would be a viable option for my FS-ZE, and I hear that it has infact been confirmed to work with the FS series Mazda engines.

Re: Greddy eManage
 

Yes I have used a greddy emanage, and I can tell you that it is nothing like a standalone. It allows you to extend the duty cycle of injectors, advance an retard timing, control extra injectors (2), alter mass air calibration, change and recalibrate mass air sensors, clamp mass air voltage, and do basic data logging. I have it on one of my other cars and can tell you it works ok. You have to have a laptop to program it, and you have to buy the software to tune it. So by the time you buy the unit $369 the software $150, the pressure sensor $129, the pressure sensor cable $39, the ignition harness $45, and the extra injector harness $45, you've spent $777 and some change. So it is not as cheap as it seems. The biggest problem is on some obd-2 cars the timing and injector control triggers a check engine light (random misfire) not that the car is misfiring but the computers lodgic thinks that it is (has to do with crank angle speed and rates of change). So it really is just a extra injector controller, an afc, and a boost cut defenser that requires you to carry around a laptop.

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It's a nice setup, very clean and somewhat simple to use. I do not like the fact that you only get +/- 20 degrees of timing to play with as some applications need a lot more due to the base ignition maps.

I helped tune a honda CRX with a H22 Vtec in it with a T3 on it and it need the -20 just to avoid detonation, thats with the dizzy turned all the way to full retard.. other than that the fueling is good and works well. If it was my only route i'd go with it, but for the 600 more i'd go full standalone.

Was your turbo manifold glowing so red that you could see through it?

Not on this car, but I managed to do that on my protege a while back. Load tuning for about 10 minutes straight under full boost.