Hondata question

ACURAinTEGraKID

New Member
So I am still learning about cars and came across somebody selling a hondata s200 complete with all wires, cables, chips, cr-rom, and the blue box and instrustions for $150. I have a 93 integra gs that is pretty much stock but I am thinking of doing a catback exhaust and cold air intake. my question is with the car being stock should I consider buying the hondata system at this price. I think the price is flexible and i may be able to get it for like 125. so what do you recommend? also what can i expect to gain form the system
 

Jayman

New Member
I would jump all over it. A lot of people on this forum would swear by hondata for tuning.
 

ACURAinTEGraKID

New Member
I just found out last night that its a brand new system as well. he was gonna put it on his car but decided he wanted to go a different route. I was just wondering about how much do you think it would cost to have a place do the tuning for me. Also what can i expect to gain by using the setup
 

jeepers94

93 Integra GS
I have been thinking about getting hondata myself but wasnt sure what it would cost to have tuned after I got it. anyone know?
 

bfatdaintegra

IM motorvated
road tunes are horrable i had a shop tune it and it ran strait but i had it dynoed and it was a beast sfter that and never tune on a regular narrow band o2 they suk
 

BigMac88

Fat guy in a little 'teg
I'd get it if I were you. It won't do much for you now, but if you plan to build the engine it is a good piece of hardware for tuning. And at that price, it's a steal fsho.
 

acclude

cheap bastard
alright, I'm not an expert at tuning, but there are some things I feel I should point out in this thread.

1. For that price, you can't go wrong. I would get it. Even if you don't use it, you can sell it to make your money back and then some.

2. Your gains depend solely on the mods you have done and the tuning.

3. Street tuning IS NOT crap as expressed above. Generally, the best way to get it properly tuned and minimize your costs at the dyno shop is to street tune it the best you can BEFORE making an appointment for a dyno shop. Then dyno tune it. Then after it's dyno tuned, do some serious datalogging while driving in real world conditions and "fine tune" it for your driving style and real world driving conditions by street tuning it one more time. Dyno tuning is great for getting accurate numbers and data, but that's on a machine while the car is not actually moving. It can't take into consideration the minor changes that occur from driving in real world conditions.

4. There really is no such thing as narrowband tuning to begin with. It's so inaccurate that you don't want to base your tuning off of its readings. You have to have a wideband to tune properly so there shouldn't even be a discussion about using a narrowband anyways.

5. The best thing you can do is to start reading about tuning, and when you're completely exhausted from reading about tuning, read some more. Knowledge is the first step, then applying that knowledge to gain experience is the second step. You can tune it yourself (which I always encourage), but you need to be smart about it and don't do dumb shit (like drive it super rich for a month even though you know better and then next thing you know you have washed rings and wore out rod bearings :roll: :retard:)


That's all I'll add to this right now. Good luck!
 

dc2GS-R

Super Moderator
road tunes are horrable
If you get it done by someone who doesn't know what the hell they're doing. Properly tuning it via datalogging can be just a successful as dyno tuning if you're good at it. Dyno tuning may be able to extract that last few maximum horsepower but a really good street tune will almost always provide better driveability. There are tons of factors and scenarios that are logged when street tuning that just cannot be duplicated on a dyno.
 
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