Well here is my dilemma, I have a pretty much stock car with the exception of a single exhaust. I am wondering if I should get the Emanage or VAFC for tuning it; I understand I only have a simple bolt on mod, but I recall a fellow on this forum who had a bone stock s2k and had it tuned with Emanage and gained 10-15 hp!.

 

Well if your going to continue to modd your car, you may as well get the emanage. but if your only going to mildly modd it, go with the vafc.

 

Hey ,

Thanks for the info I do want to further mod the car but at the moment with my little bolt on, and the price of some used VAFC is the perfect combination for my budget.

 

Before you buy an EMU or VAFC, do you have any good tuners around ??

Yes, 10whp is possible with a good tune. The Greddy EMU isnt easy to tune like Hondata.

 

Get the emanage. Being able to mess with timing will give you the ability to add low end torque, something you will not have much success with using just fuel.

I found (but have not used yet) a used Emanage ultimate on Ebay for $400 and bought the Boomslang harness for another $200.

The nice thing is if you someday find nice used SC kit for a couple grand and want to take the plunge you can really make use of the emanage, but VAFC will not be sufficient.

But yeah, make sure you can find a tuner familiar with it first.

 

I was in the same boat as you and got the EMU instead. The main sell point to me was the VAFC only tunes WOT. EMU tunes the entire power band. Someone correct me if I am wrong. Also heard that VAFC will become nil after a while as the ECU relearns and nullifies your tune.

I dyno'd at 219 hp and 153 tq with Rick's header and K&N FIPK.

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if you're calling it quits with just i/h/e then i'd just sport the vafc and simply trim the fuel a tad. it won't yield as much as a full standalone but then again the standalone would be overkill. the emanage might be a nice middle ground between the two but damn the vafc is so cheap (i got mine for $100)...

 

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You may have searched, but this is all you need to have found

https://www.s2ki.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=405306

 

Thanks fellas for your inputs on this subject, I have decided to save up and get the emanage as a member stated if I decide to go the SC route it would be best which I plan to in the near future. I am located in so-cal I read posts of a fella who runs church tuning but they all involve VAFC; with that being said does anyone know someone who tunes Emanage in so-cal