Standalone Engine Management

[Shteifen]

Just wondering if anyone can recommend a Standalone Engine Management system that is really easy to set up and use in a mk1 Golf with 1.8t?
Does anyone have any experience with Lugtronics? ive found they have a fairly plug and play kind of system and would be keen to use it if its a s good as it sounds. From the way the describe it its just an ECU that plugs into the stock harnes with an adapter, you just have to run a vacuum line to the ecu which has a MAP sender in it.
Would local tuners be able to change the maps and generally be able to tune it?

I have no idea about SEMs!
please guide me!


Thanks!
-Steve

[h100vw]

Not many plug and play unless you check qpeng maybe.

Custom-Code and defeat the immobiliser in a standard ME3.8 ecu allowing you to run it in the car and retain the diagnostics if you want to.

Gavin

[Shteifen]

Whats the go with running the standard ecu? does everything on the dash still work, like all the lights and whatnot? i thought you needed mk4 dash to run stock management or is that the immobilizer defeat you mean?
I'd looked into qpeng quite a bit but i wasnt comfortable with how little service i could get for it here and i hear the interface isnt very convenient. Wasnt sure how easy it was to get someone to fix should something go wrong!

[h100vw]

You can run the MK1 clocks with the mk4 stuff for the most part. Alternator light, oil pressure etc. Just a case of connecting the MK4 loom to the respective mk1 wires.

Not 100% sure if you need a box to make the rev counter work. Also the speedo on the MK4 is electronic but that may take a cable to the MK1 clocks.

I haven't personally done the conversion but using the MK4 ECU would be a priority to save all the time wiring in the standalone. Off the shelf maps for Phase 1 and 2 hardware that are guaranteed to work. Factory driveability and cold start.

Gavin

[Shteifen]

hmm you have PM!
the ECU i would be using would be out of like and audi A4 or soimething i think. that ok?
-steve