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Originally posted by smokey8890
The plans are to run low boost until I saved enough money for building up the internals. My main concern with the emanage is finding someone to tune it. I called a few shops but no luck. Calling greddy will be my next step.
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The E-manage is a piggyback, so technically speaking, it will run off your stock ECU settings and you will be modifying it on top of that.
You can always start by presetting your ignition and fuel tables... Bump up the fuel by about 5% across the board in the boost maps (stock injectors) in each 1 psi increment -- so at 1 psi, your fuel should be +5% from 2000-redline, and at 2 psi, it will be +10%, etc... And then lower the ignition timing by 1 deg at each 1 psi increment.
Don't forget that these guidelines I am giving you are VERY conservative. It might make your car run so conservative that the engine will fail to rev to redline because it is running so rich and it would sputter
The key is to work from rich to leaner... and before you start fine tuning the fuel tables, you either advance or retard the ignition timing and tune for best power. If you are lost in tuning ignition timing (which can also lead to disasters for noobs), you can always leave it 1 deg retard at each psi of boost and leave it. You still get a well running and tuned car, but just not as powerful as a fully tuned car for max power.
Usually I don't give out these guidelines about tuning because every car and every setup is completely different. It sounds very vague in some way because 1% of fuel can be completely different with larger/smaller injectors.
But once you get the hang of playing with the settings, you will begin to learn how to tune the car and tune it the way you like. Now it takes guts to tune for max power... If you don't have the experience, I would just leave it to a pro tuner. For a boosted car, you don't need to tune the piss out of the car because you can always compensate for conservative tuning with more boost
When I tuned my Integra (all motor) with the PowerFC Standalone, it takes time and patience because I wanted to tune for max power. For NA, poor tuning = no power! Before my tuning, I used to let some guy to do a chip for me. I dyno'd 194WHP with the chip. And then I switched to standalone and tuned it myself -- 219 WHP. Gained 25 WHP just from tuning. That's a long time ago anyways... I helped my friends tune many cars -- a lot of NA Hondas, and a couple of boosted ones. I also tuned my Camry of course, which is my first time tuning a turbocharged Toyota.
Regardless, good luck with your plans! 
emanage is the best, so I've heard for expandability!
I just hope they don't kill me at the shop.
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