Haltech removal questions

[mytmous]

ok, car I'm looking at buying as a haltech E6K installed, and I'm trying to figure out how bad and long and $$ it's going to be to remove it and go back to a stock ecu/safc, or dsmlink/ecu.

Does anyone have one of these haltech's and did you have to add sensors or did you just hook up to one's that where already there? From reading the install manual it looks like most you just hook to the stock one's but the TPS is added, is this correct?

Sorry I've not dealt with a standalone before, and I think it may be a bit more than I need.
but If it's going to be a pain to remove I may just keep it.

car has a few goodies on it, PTE SCM61, 38mm wastegate, arias pistons, crower springs, stage 3 cams(272'ish), SS valves, FIC 750cc's, walbro 255, kyb agx shocks, apexi catback.
and more things I can't remember.

Thanks for any info.

 

[snowborder714]

Please do not bump your thread.

 

[delta448]

I vote keep the Haltech and learn how to tune it.

It's a very nice unit and a competent tuner can make the car very driveable and tune for very good power with it. This is a very rare instance where I'm not going to recommend going with ECMLink.

I understand that you may be intimidated by it and want something more popular in order to gain support from others, or fall back into your comfort zone if you're already familiar with something else. Not to discourage ECMLink, it's a wonderful product, but if you're really concerned about it, hiring a professional to tune the Haltech for you on a dyno will yield better results than almost anyone just starting out could ever dream of getting by tuning on their own, albeit with the help of hoards of other users (hundreds of miles away over the internet, only knowing you by your datalogs).

I wouldn't want the headaches of rewiring everything and the added cost for parts just to swap to another system with the same potential. A pro tuner will be in his element with a standalone like the Haltech and will give you results most of us could only dream of by tuning an SAFC or ECMLink car on our own.

 

[mytmous]

Thanks for the info, but it looks like the decision to keep it or take it off got made for me.

Guy is going to keep it for his next project so now I have to get the parts on the car to make it run without the haltech, I was starting to like the idea of having a standalone. cry....

Thanks for the info.
when i get the money I'm going with dsmlink.