ECU for Civic Type R worth it?

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I'm thinking about getting my standard Civic Type R (2004) chipped.

For the K100 it is around £790 fitted. Anyone know if this is a good price and would the gains be worth it?

I hear it gives the Civic better mid range and will increase fuel economy a smidge. I'm just thinking £790 might be a bit steep for a chip.
 
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Personally, I'd never touch an ECU unless mine broke and needed to be replaced.

At the end of the day, it's a lot of money for little gain
 
No, I wouldn't do it. The engine is N/A and so highly strung and tuned in standard form you are going to see little improvement and £800~ is far too much!

For much less money can't you get someone to reprogramme when VTEC kicks in y0 and up the rev limiter even more?

I'm all for remapping and tuning but just not on this engine for that price.
 
Not worth it IMO.

Peerzy said:
For much less money can't you get someone to reprogramme when VTEC kicks in y0 and up the rev limiter even more?
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The EP3 CTR ECU is a dumb unit, and can't be reprogrammed in this way. You have to buy a new ECU by the likes of K-Pro or others, and have it custom mapped to your car. Then you can change the VTEC 'engagement' point.

The CTR is a waste of money and time to try to get extra power from really.
 
Definitely not worth it, the gains you would get, you wouldn't be satisfied, not for £790 anyway. There's a list of things you could do to keep yourself occupied.
Similar problem with all Honda's though, they're already 'tuned' up N/A engines, hard to get much more out of them without forced induction.
 
Actually the Hondata unit transforms the car according to the many people that have them fitted. Instead of reading guesses on here get onto CTRO, register, have a searchy searchy.
 
It depends, if you have some mods already, RBC or Spoon manifolds or a different air intake it WILL make a substantial difference and is a worth while mod aslong as its tuned on a rolling road by a proper tuner: Unit8, TGM or TDI North.

Kpro'ing an un-modded engine is a bit pointless but it will release some more power and more importantly mid range torque but if i were you i'd get the money spent on some coilovers and a good fast road setup as you'll notice that a lot more.

Depending which ECU you go for you can have lunch control which you can configure yourself so it depends what you're doing with the car.
 
It's a lot of money, but it can transform the car, even if it's standard, makes more sense if you have other mods, i.e breathing, mani, exhaust.
 
Relentless81 said:
So you would fit a turbo or supercharger onto a K20A2 without any form of tuning? Nice.
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the question was posed would it be value for money and would the gains the be good

the answer to both is no,

my suggestion was a forced induction reccomendation

which gives you good honda related gains and in comparisson to other mods returns value good value you for money

and yeah at low boost I'd be content with the stock engine components, honda are very reliable don't you know, now on the other hand if it was a toyota......chortle
 
Relentless81 said:
No they are crap, VTEC engagement is set at optimal point from the factory for the standard set up
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Thats debatable at the best of times, let alone when you have the iVTEC where you can move cam timing around aswell.

K100 sounds very expensive... I thought that was the price the replacement K-Pro units go for?
 
Jonnycoupe said:
Thats debatable at the best of times, let alone when you have the iVTEC where you can move cam timing around aswell.
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No its not, its common knowledge that they are crap, have a read up

Will Gill said:
and yeah at low boost I'd be content with the stock engine components, honda are very reliable don't you know, now on the other hand if it was a toyota......chortle
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Whats your problem, you are so stuck up its unbelievable slagging my car when you have never seen it just makes me realise how much of a moron you are.
Yeah you can FI a Honda on standard internals some respond better than others, but thats not what you said was it, you said use the standard ECU, personally, I think thats a very silly idea

I've owned,

2 x Civic 1.6 VTI
2 x Civic 1.8 VTI
1 x Prelude 2.2 VTI
1 x Accord 1.8 Sport
1 x Civic Coupe SR
1 x Civic 1.5 iLS
1 x Civic Coupe 1.7 VTEC

I've been using Honda forums everyday for 7 years, been in a number of EP3's, driven them. Been to countless meets, spoken to countless amounts of people, I have a small idea of what goes on in the world of Honda thanks
 
Relentless81 said:
Whats your problem, you are so stuck up its unbelievable slagging my car when you have never seen it just makes me realise how much of a moron you are.
Yeah can FI a Honda on standard internals, buts thats not what you said was it, you said use the standard ECU, personally, I think thats a very silly idea

I've owned,

2 x Civic 1.6 VTI
2 x Civic 1.8 VTI
1 x Prelude 2.2 VTI
1 x Accord 1.8 Sport
1 x Civic Coupe SR
1 x Civic 1.5 iLS
1 x Civic Coupe 1.7 VTEC

I've been using Honda forums everyday for 7 years, been in a number of EP3's, driven them. Been to countless meets, spoken to countless amounts of people, I have a small idea of what goes on in the world of Honda thanks
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and breath,

does the fact you've owned multiple hondas affect the £/pBHP ratios of the k100 ecu? I didnt ask for a history of cars you've been lucky enough to have owned, quite what relevance that has when we are debating the cost effectiveness of a mod I'm still unsure :confused:

my little jab at toyotas general reliability was unsurprisingly actually purely aimed at you and your "unreliable" little car as your attitude in your last post added you to my gaydar detector.

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