Need some help with Greddy Emanage Blue ECU

koolio1234 · Post by **koolio1234** » Fri Oct 24, 2008 12:35 am

Was looking around for one of these nifty little piggyback units and came across this on ebay.

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/GReddy-E-Manage- ... 286.c0.m14

Can you guys have a look at it and let me know if this will go into my FTO because the seller says it wont go into a Mitsubishi in his description. This is unusual because i know some of you guys have used this ecu in your fto's and its been talked about before on here. Is there a special emanage blue for the fto? or is this guy bullshitting?

Jamie · Post by **Jamie** » Sun Oct 26, 2008 6:21 pm

Had a look at his item description and it states Compatible Engines: Mitsubishi, Honda, Toyota, Nissan.

Maybe ask the seller what he/she had it in or if they know if it is compatible.

Post by **vipfto** » Sun Oct 26, 2008 7:56 pm

i didnt ru the emanage but know a lot of guys here do think you will find it will fine maybe pm I8A4RE think he runs the same one

khunjeng · Post by **khunjeng** » Sun Oct 26, 2008 8:02 pm

a piggyback can suit almost any car.

this has all the cables etc, just need to be spliced into your ecu. for 400 its an OK price with all the bits.

koolio1234 · Post by **koolio1234** » Sun Oct 26, 2008 9:47 pm

thanks for the replys all. I'll do a bit more research, I'll email the seller and confirm what they mean. This should give me a good gain atw paired with some aftermarket extractors.

Post by **Bennoz** » Mon Oct 27, 2008 4:54 pm

Yeah thats not a bad price. From memory, Bigpitty used one of these with the universal harness & it worked ok.

KJ_bob · Post by **KJ_bob** » Mon Oct 27, 2008 7:01 pm

For 400-500 hundred would anyone suggest anything better? or even anything else...

Post by **I8A4RE** » Mon Oct 27, 2008 8:57 pm

Kj, personnally i would save another couple of hundred hundred (

) and go for the emanage ultimate 10kws + depending of what else you have done. It has far better tuning ability than the blue.

koolio1234 · Post by **koolio1234** » Tue Oct 28, 2008 6:21 pm

wow 10kw atw is a significant increase. i think i remember aza mentioning that emanage ultimate made a 10kw increase.

KJ_bob · Post by **KJ_bob** » Tue Oct 28, 2008 6:34 pm

its like double the price of the blue though...

Post by **I8A4RE** » Tue Oct 28, 2008 6:50 pm

What price?

I doubt that you will get that gain from the blue

Post by **Bennoz** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 7:31 am

Thats crap, there is absolutely no advantage in using an ultimate over a blue in an FTO. All the Ultimates extra features are for turbo use.

Post by **I8A4RE** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 9:47 am

Thats not true buddy, i dont have the info (ill copy paste when i get home). It has something to do with being able to add or subtract on fuel and igintion maps

Delvance · Post by **Delvance** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 10:19 am

Emanage blue can do ignition and fueling too provided you get the extra harnesses that this one does come with. I think the only thing is the blue can't subtract on fueling but can do plus/subtract on ignition. I've looked it up a bit before and it seems it should be able to do fuel minus too but my garage keeps insisting it doesn't.

The ultimate is better because it has more tuning points, hence more adjustability but the FTO won't need that kind of accuracy unless you've done something serious in your engine bay.

Now the ultimate is kind of worth it over the blue because in addition to being more accurate, the ultimate can run two maps with a simple switch to switch between the two maps. It will remove the japanese 180km/h speed limit AND you can also raise your rev cut, so if you're still making power at cutout, you can raise the revcut a couple of hundred rpms (don't get too greedy on stock internals though!) or you can do it anyways to prevent brushing revcut if you like revving real high.

After saying that though, i would still happily use a blue, even in my V35 (which has a much fussier ecu and engine than 6a12).

koolio1234 · Post by **koolio1234** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 11:53 pm

Hmm... what kind of alternatives can you guys suggest to the emanage blue system? Something better or more suited to the FTO maybe? Or is the emanage blue the best way to go for a value for money power gain?

Delvance · Post by **Delvance** » Sun Nov 02, 2008 6:14 pm

Go blue...good BFYB and widely supported.

Post by **Bennoz** » Mon Nov 03, 2008 8:27 am

koolio1234 wrote:Hmm... what kind of alternatives can you guys suggest to the emanage blue system? Something better or more suited to the FTO maybe? Or is the emanage blue the best way to go for a value for money power gain?

The FTO is no different from most other cars. Only specialist feature it has is Mivec & most piggybacks these days will cope with that. All a piggyback does is change the voltages going into the ECU & 'fools' it into adding more or less fuel etc.

This is the list of different piggyback ECU types I've heard of being used in an FTO:
Perfect Power SMT6 or SMT7
Unichip Type A
Emanage Blue and Ultimate
Haltech Interceptor & Mini Interceptor

Then there's the 'bling' controllers like Apexi SAFCs etc

koolio1234 · Post by **koolio1234** » Wed Nov 05, 2008 3:04 am

Thanks again for the advice guys...i think i will look into getting the emanage blue soon....hopefully by christmas...

koolio1234 · Post by **koolio1234** » Sun Nov 09, 2008 8:24 pm

after a little research i decided to go with the haltech interceptor. Up to a 20kw atw increase also removing that damn speed limiter... Should have it early january