i've been looking on phearable.com, the guy who chips ecu's for a lot of people. I was thinking about buying a chipped ecu, but the car is a 96 gsr. isn't that considered obd2. but it only shows chipped ecu's for obd1's. Will i need a conversion harness. or i guess i could just tell him the year of the car and motor name, and he'll take care of it. I was thinking about putting the rev limit at 10000, and activating vtec at 5000. Is that too wide for a stock motor, as i think it engages at 5500 stock. phearable.net has been doing it for a long time, so they're reputable.
I found the answer about smog, why don't i just purchase the entire chipped ecu from phearable.com/net and then just switch for the stock ecu when smogging.
Also one very important question i still have to ask. When running a chipped ecu, will it actually cut the life of the engine. Its not like i'm planning on running my car all night at the races, but it would be nice to have a little something extra when you come up to a guy out of nowhere. Will a chipped ecu endanger the life of the b18c1 motor, or will it just run better because of the ecu.
And an ecu is just as simple as plugging in, so when i take out the stock one and put in the new one from phearable, what do i do. I know you just dont switch it. there has to be something you do when exchanging ecu's.
Any help is greatly appreciated.