These are equipped from the factory with a soldered in Eprom chip, that can be desoldered and removed and replaced with an eprom socket. You generally wont find this ECU in a stock US vehicle, but usually comes with the 1st Gen B16 swap bought from JDM Importers and swapped into the 88-91 Civics and Integra Chassis. This JDM Integra is equipped with the PR3 or PW0 ECU.Because these are already MPFI from the factory, these vehicle can easily run an OBD1 ECU with an OBD0 to OBD1 ECU Conversion Harness making it even more versatile. From here these ECUs can be easily tuned with the proper equipment. The 90-91 MPFI ECUs (PM6-A09, PS9-A09….examples) are equipped from the factory with a soldered in Eprom chip, that can be desoldered and removed and replaced with an eprom socket.The 88-89 MPFI ECUs (PM6-A080, is one example of the ECU code from these computers) for all intensive purposes are NOT chippable ECUs.they can however be equipped with a daughterboard that allows them to use a chip.Honda Civic 88-91 MPFI (Multi Point Fuel Injection)
Once converted to MPFI, these vehicle can easily run an OBD1 ECU with an OBD0 to OBD1 ECU Conversion Harness making it even more versatile. First, you will need to convert to MPFI (multi point fuel injection) and then decide if you want to tune with OBD0 or OBD1 ECUs.
Integra serial communication protocol software#
What software can we use with this hardware to tune these vehicles with?įirst, what vehicles are we able to tune with factory ECUs? The shear amount of options here is what leads us to these tuning solutions. What hardware is needed to tune these vehicles?ģ. Why Do We Tune Honda / Acura vehicles with OEM ECUs?Ģ. Solution home General Technical Articles Xenocron's Introduction to Honda / Acura ECU Chipping & Tuning