Hey everyone, I'm probably going over to korea this summer and I was wondering what everyone thought about a few things. What would be involved in changing over to MAP from MAF and would it be worth it to get another stock unit or should I find an entire FMU/ECU with sensors. Any ideas on how much boost/hp the stock MAP/ECU could support? Thanks

 

What up Airbornski? Get ahold of me if you get over here before the Middle of July. SPIKE is on the way here now.

Try to make the connections you can NOW to people over here (IE: Sam, David, Cheuk) so you have some to talk to when you get here about where to go. I've been here for 7 months and haven't seen ONE good shop yet. Directions suck and Seoul is SOOOO big...

 

What's up redz, I'll probably be around camp yongson or colbern, but I'll let you know. Can't find a shop? That's crazy. Anyone know about the conversion to MAP?

 

the conversion to MAP is not possible unless you want to do some MAJOR work.

Option #1. Swap in the following parts
Non-North American ECU (KPH),
KPH gauges
complete engine wiring loom
Intake manifold

Option #2. Replace the stock ECU with a stand alone system, Haltec, Motec, Pactel, etc..etc.e.tc

Neither is cheap, nor easy. If you take option #1 you are still left with a MAP sensor that will not take more than 1 bar of boost at most, and an ECU that does not know how to handle boost. You also end up with a ECU that is non OBD-ii compliant, meaning it is not legal anywhere in the USA by federal law (assuming you get caught).

In otherwords...it's 1000x easier to go standalone. not to mention cheaper.

 

Just to follow up on this.

I chose option #3.

Ship your car to Korea, have a shop create a swap kit to a KDM ecu and take advantage of every tuning option available. breaker.gif

Good to be back

 

I chose option #4, having an additionnal 3bar MAP sensor installed which controls additional injectors for boosting wink.gif