Hello ,

I like know what is the best for HP my car 2004 Honda S2000 2.2L .Hondata K-Pro System or AEM ??

Thanks

 

Honestly iv been researching heavily into this myself. I have good fair amount of experience with multiple managements. Here is my personal opinion.

AEM is great overall, if you want temp gauge to work you have to buy modifry adapter, which is approx $100. AEM is running special for 1299, or 1450 with uego (i recommend), which can be purchased from clubrsx. I talked to John R. at the PRI show last week and he said the temp gauge is able to come completely on as a warning light basically if it gets to hot. Overall basic tuning with AEM is fairly easy, however when it comes to the trim maps, and tweaking it can be very painful. Nice thing about AEM is for 1450 to 1550 you can be all done, then tune yourself if you know how, or pay shop to tune.

Hondata is amazing. I have tuned 2 cars with Kpro, and its very easy and nice to use. Every aspect of it is easy. And you can get help from a lot of people if you need it. (Getting help with AEM is a bit harder). You maintain all factory honda parts, and basically factory maps provided by hondata. Only downside to hondata, is even with getting used ECU with KPro, your still looking to spend 1500-2000 for parts. Then if you want labor from a shop to do the conversion, your looking at approx 750 is what i was quoted. Now the prices i gave you, also include me using factory rsx-s wideband and having it wired up as primary o2 for tuning/closed loop.

Another route you can go, and i have yet to see an S2000 with this, is the Hydra Nemesis. This has a built in 3 or 4 bar map sensor (depends if you get 2.5 or 2.6 unit). I have tuned 2 cars on Hydra, and its comparable to AEM, except i would have to say some things are better than AEM, but some things are not as good. However i have been told that the new 2.6 (released after i sold mine), has fixed most of its Cons compared to AEM. Only thing with Hydra is they say temp gauge does not work, however they have it working for the RSX, so i would assume they can make it work for S2000 since the K series ecu can make the s2000 coolant work. Im waiting to hear back from Hydra about testing and helping them with S2000 since i helped promote and make maps for the 2zz-ge motor of toyota.

Hope this helps you out. If you want to remain all factory honda parts, then hondata is best route, but you will spend 1000 more in the end. Hydra with Wideband plug in is 1700 or 1800 i think. AEM is 1450. So it will depend on support, factory stuff, and preference really.

 

^^ Lots of good info there. But I just want to share my personal (but short) opinion.

Go with AEM. It is used on a lot of tuned S2000's. Heck, not just S2000's, pretty much across the board. It is plug and play. Well, you gotta tune it first. I thought about K-Pro for quite a while. But yes, it's more expensive, and just seems like more of a headache to get it running (on an S2000 anyway).

Again, I vote AEM.

 

[QUOTE=Q8charger,Dec 17 2008, 09:05 AM]Hello ,

 

The one complaint I've heard from AEM standalone users is that the support is pretty terrible if you run into any issues that aren't solved on their AEM user forum. Other than that the system is pretty straight forward and should be relatively plug n play.

Keep us posted on your decision

 

I have a question, might help too.. if you get the emanage (ult) what else do you need?

P&P harness from somebody, and what else


I have an 05' AP2, does it complicate things?

 

aem if you dont have emmisions laws, hondata if you do.

 

wow so in kuwait, theres only the f20c for all the years?

 

Doesn't K-Pro fail emissions as well?

 

id go with the aem