Ecu Swap Kit - Tibminn's Rd2 Is Successfully Swapped!
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From: Pittsburgh area
Vehicle: 2004 Lincoln Aviator
ok...here is a real good question for you...can you do this for an 06 elantra. the tcu is not part of the ecu any longer, from what I have read. is this the case and can this be done anyways. Good job from what Ive been reading BTW. This may change my mind about boosting after all. I had givin up on the tib because of the accident and the electrical problems. but if there is an economical way now to tune the ecu, I may give it a shot. will wait to see a few more results and for more info on the whole turbo kit.
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From: Minnetonka, MN
Vehicle: 2001 Hyundai Tiburon
Well guys, after a long while of debating with myself of whether or not to do this, along with the countless questions Ive been asking Airborne, I finally decided to do it. Last night I purchased this full swap kit. From what I understand, It is a little more extensive than what they were originally offering, but for me that is better.
I will be getting a full swap kit with ecu, gaskets, cps, map w/ iat, all the needed wiring, and most importantly of all, an extensive instruction manual wink1.gif haha. I also ordered up a turbo head gasket to lower compression. This is originally not something I was planning on, but Airborne pretty much talked me into it not only with its added reliability (well safety moreso) but just with his own example of what I will be able to do with this ecu and that gasket.
As many of you may remember, I turbo'd my car a little over 2 months ago now, and have had nothing but problems with it. My maf sensor apparently hates boost, no matter how where it was located it just would not work. I thought it might have been a faulty sensor, but it worked 100% fine without the boost (even with the turbo installed, as long as I kept out of boost). Although I never tried switching a new one in, I pretty much just said to hell with it and decided to go all out. With this new ecu my setup will be tuned with no effort from me, allow me to change the boost significantly and still be tuned, and I will now have a map sensor and a whole new ecu which between those two will eliminate my previous problems.
I really am not worried at all about the install of the actual ecu kit, it sounds very easy and straight forward. What I am worried about is the install of the turbo gasket, which me a a friend of mine are going to try and tackle. He knows what hes doing, I dont. haha. Really my only wrenching expirience comes from basic maintainace, and installing things such as a 1.8 cam and exhaust mani's etc. I will post a follow up on exactly how easy/difficult the install is, with and without the head gasket just incase others may decide to go the route I did.
So far Airborne has been great to work with, a really nice guy with a lot of patience. Thanks again a ton man!
I will be getting a full swap kit with ecu, gaskets, cps, map w/ iat, all the needed wiring, and most importantly of all, an extensive instruction manual wink1.gif haha. I also ordered up a turbo head gasket to lower compression. This is originally not something I was planning on, but Airborne pretty much talked me into it not only with its added reliability (well safety moreso) but just with his own example of what I will be able to do with this ecu and that gasket.
As many of you may remember, I turbo'd my car a little over 2 months ago now, and have had nothing but problems with it. My maf sensor apparently hates boost, no matter how where it was located it just would not work. I thought it might have been a faulty sensor, but it worked 100% fine without the boost (even with the turbo installed, as long as I kept out of boost). Although I never tried switching a new one in, I pretty much just said to hell with it and decided to go all out. With this new ecu my setup will be tuned with no effort from me, allow me to change the boost significantly and still be tuned, and I will now have a map sensor and a whole new ecu which between those two will eliminate my previous problems.
I really am not worried at all about the install of the actual ecu kit, it sounds very easy and straight forward. What I am worried about is the install of the turbo gasket, which me a a friend of mine are going to try and tackle. He knows what hes doing, I dont. haha. Really my only wrenching expirience comes from basic maintainace, and installing things such as a 1.8 cam and exhaust mani's etc. I will post a follow up on exactly how easy/difficult the install is, with and without the head gasket just incase others may decide to go the route I did.
So far Airborne has been great to work with, a really nice guy with a lot of patience. Thanks again a ton man!
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From: Jax, FL
Vehicle: 01 Tibster
Tibmin-
Kit sent. You should see it in a week.
TiburonWao-
We can work something like that out, but I'll need some pics of your ecu to read the model and version #s
MadJohn-
Pricing is still up in the air. If we can get some hard numbers of people getting the kit whether for their current kit or for the new bolt-on kit we're making, we should be able to knock the pricing down.
Kit sent. You should see it in a week.
TiburonWao-
We can work something like that out, but I'll need some pics of your ecu to read the model and version #s
MadJohn-
Pricing is still up in the air. If we can get some hard numbers of people getting the kit whether for their current kit or for the new bolt-on kit we're making, we should be able to knock the pricing down.