Alright guys I'm been talking to the guy's at NisTune to find out about ecu boards for our cars.Right now they are running field testing on newer Type 4 OBD-II boards with free installation and half price on the board. The boards are the same as their earlier Type 4 board but with double the memory for the 1996 models.

I'll post the number tomorrow..

 

Sounds like a decent option with the half off of the board and free install offer. The individual fee and shipping kind of lessens the value of the deal though. Definitely send the ecu in to get installed though unless you work for Intel or Microsoft.

 

total price shipped to my door 380, not too bad.

 

And I just got a 95 ECU and EU.

I do have a '96 manual ECU shelved...hmmmm.

Looks like I'll have all kinds of tuning possibilities going on.
Still have my JWT ECU too.

What to do.....?

For those that have been nistuned, what's the benefit over the EU?

 

This is the exact same thread I started a few months back.

Good luck sir.

 

Where?
I see your megasquirt thread and a thread where your asking about ECU numbers.
Where did you mention nistune is tuning our ECU's??

Any advice on if nistune has advantages over the eu??

I see it now..your top secret thread. Lol

 

Alright guy's as promised (This is the Nissan list of part numbers they have. There are some which will fall in between these (Same fix six digits but last digit may change)

A32 VQ30DE Maxima 95 USDM 40U10 N A F OBD2 A18-B42 EE8
A32 VQ30DE Maxima 95 USDM 40U11 N A F OBD2 A18-B42 EL1
A32 VQ30DE Maxima 95 USDM 40U13 N A F OBD2 A18-E11 EQ1
A32 VQ30DE Maxima 95 USDM 40U14 N A F OBD2 A18-E11 ER1
A32 VQ30DE Maxima 95 USDM 40U17 N A F OBD2 A18-H80 E3S
A32 VQ30DE Maxima 95 USDM ?????? N A F OBD2 A18-B41 EL0
A32 VQ30DE Maxima 95 USDM ?????? N A F OBD2 A18-B41 EM0
A32 VQ30DE Maxima 95 USDM 40U04 N M F OBD2 A18-E10 ER0
A32 VQ30DE Maxima 95 USDM 40U06 N M F OBD2 A18-H79 E3R
A32 VQ30DE Maxima 96 USDM 54U16 N A U OBD2 A18-L00 E00
A32 VQ30DE Maxima 96 USDM 54U01 N M C OBD2 A18-C84 EY0
A32 VQ30DE Maxima 96 USDM 54U03 N M U OBD2 A18-C84 EX8
A32 VQ30DE Maxima 96 USDM 54U13 N A U OBD2 A18-C85 EX9
A32 VQ30DE Maxima 96 USDM 54U05 N M C OBD2 A18-H92 E4B
A32 VQ30DE Maxima 96 USDM 56U62 N M U OBD2 A18-E65 EZ7
A32 VQ30DE Maxima 96 USDM 56U66 N M U OBD2 A18-L01 E00

 

So my buddy had a EU FIC then when with these guys, he said more reliable, and for those of us in NM ( a whole 3 of us) there aren't many guy that like messing with EU's. plus this NisTune is a better price compared to Emanage.

 

EU has never been, isn't and will never be a real tuning solution.

Nistune is.

If you could combine EU's customizability and JWT's reliability into one unit, viola you have nistune.

It seemed like Osiris but w/ more hxcore options, a few things went above my head on what some features did but I got my friend's RB'd 240sx running safely for the supra meet (the AFR's kept dipping into the 13s under boost ), if we had more time we coulda gave it a legit tune, and not just a "oh god please don't blow up" tune, but he wanted to run it that night up and down i10, so we did what we could do in a few hrs

 

Sounds promising for the future of VQ tuning for us.

Although the EU comment above is completely inaccurate, unless we're talking about real power such as 700+

 

It isn't? Seems like many of us have been able to get tuned just fine with them. Granted its not a stand alone giving you full control but its till able to control fuel and timing thus able to yield good tunes for our cars.

 

Define real tuning solution... a standalone perhaps? What are you dying to do with a standalone or "real tuning solution" that you can't with an EU?

OAN, do you think that megasquirt is a "real tuning solution"?

I couldn't disagree more. From my experience (and others), the EU is very reliable.

 

3 Grenaded K-series from the locals here running on EU setups from different shops.

Also the way to extend the rev-limiter on it? Come on, I'd have to buy a JWT just for it to work smoothly.

This would be cool if it cost VAFC/SAFC money ($100-200) but EU's are too expensive to be doing stuff like that.

Megasquirt? Oh jeeze I can whip out a few videos of VERY VERY fast cars running on MS for years, cars that would NOT be running something like EU to get where they are.

But a MS PNP is out of the typical Maxima owner price range, Nistune is perfect for us, I mean I got 4 ecu's already on deck for the locals here and I haven't even shown them on what the GUI looks like yet, they'd be hooked in an instant!

 

I'm seeing around $424 back to your door with cable, paypal, and license fee. Plus you need to send the ecu first. Still a good option vs a used EU.

 

I just got an email back from nistune quoting less than $200 not including my shipping to them.
They said it would be for the board installed only. What else should I need/expect/ask for?
Seems VERY affordable, so I have to be missing something.

Here is the email:
We are releasing board for field testing in vehicles at the moment. I can
offer one for $150AUD fitted if sending the ECU here (only the board
installed). $40AUD return postage

A32 VQ30DE Maxima 96 USDM 54U03 N M U OBD2
A18-C84 EX8

We have not run them in a A32 vehicle yet (confirmed working fine in S14
KA24DE models) but works fine on my bench A32. I have a couple of other
people sending their ECUs in at the moment to see how these go

Regards
Matt Brown
Managing Director

 

I'm in for a nistune tune but how do I get in contact with them or is there a specific site or area I must go to? Also do they do turbo tunes also or is it just an all motor tune? Thanks in advance.

 

Google nistune.

 

Matt from Nistune sent me a break down on the cost, install is free, license is usually 200 im getting it for half, cable is also half off, shipping isnt to bad either ther quoted me $40

 

This is an excellent deal then.

 

My thoughts man, I send my ecu out on friday.

 

I'm right now.

They just told me they can copy my JWT map over to the nistune.

I'm. So. Happy.

 

Thats awesome, looks like our cars finally have a even better option for tuning our cars.

 

You cant blame others blown motors on the EU. You don't know what their tune consisted of or their setups. Could have been a fuel issue, timing or simply a limitation of the motor itself being pushed too hard.
I do agree the rev limiter is a real PITA, but that's not so for a lot of other different platforms that don't use a fuel cutting rev limiter such as ours.
You always seem to speak up based on others experiences yet have no real experience of your own to base it off of. If you were running one day to day on a platform other then stock then I could take your comments as being more valid but as it is you always seem to have issues just keeping your mildly modded stock cars running flawlessly.
I do agree a true stand alone is really where its at, but some may feel its overkill for their setups if their not heavily modded and looking to gain every bit of HP possible being that theirs a lot of setting up and tuning to do.

 

yup...thats what i'm running on mine...but the JWT tune was so kraptastic that the car doesn't run all that great. at least nistune will allow me to tweak the tune on the fly instead of sending it over to JWT and wait months and months.

 

nistune has been the preferred tuning solution for turbo 3rd gen guys for years. my buddy maxmaxima91 has it on his turbo 3rd gen and i've messed with it some and it's really cool.

hopefully this actually pans out and for 4th gens, unlike that bikirom claim from years ago. i never did hear back from that guy who was setting it all up and sending me a test ECU.

hopefully it is just a coincidence that the contact for Bikirom back in the day, and nistune now, are both named Matt, or if it's not a coincidence hopefully there is a logical explanation for why the bikirom thing fell through when it seemed like they were so close.

 

We'll soon see like I said I send mine out tomorrow, once i get it back I'll let you guys know how this pans out..

 

I hope this works out

 

This appears rather promising

 

The JWT tune i recently recieved from them was also crap, even with me sending in my injectors. The damn thing was tuned so lean it wouldnt even idle, luckily i still have my EU so i had to add fuel to keep it running. But the amount of fuel i had to add to obtain a 14.7 afr at idle was insane.
Of course JWT refuses to believe its their tune and my setup since im running nismo injectors, have my MAF on the charged side, my IAT isnt before the blower blah blah blah...
. So at the moment im just running a jwt eprom with a stock tune andthe 7500 rev limit with my old emu tune.

 

I'm a risk taker I guess.
I've yet to get the o2 bung installed to wire in my lc-1 to know exactly what's going on with my JWT tune, but my butt dyno says it is doing fine and I'm not running rich anymore; as far as black out the tail pipe.
Idles fine.
Either way, I want to nistune!!!!

 

E-manage FTW!

 

jwt fi tunes for larger than stock injectors have always been terrible, and they refuse to acknowledge it.

 

Update: Sent the ECU out on Saturday, and international shipping sucks.. Shipping was $110 and it should be there by Friday..

 

Another $110 on top of the $380?!
Did you ship priority or something?

Edit: I just used USPS postage calculator from USA to Australia for medium sized box shipped priority and it said less than $60 with $400 in insurance. What did they do to you??!

 

yea I shipped it express, and you have to ship it you their physical address too. it was $97 plus insurance and tax came out to $110

 

They gave me a PO box address.
This no good??

 

I tried to shipped it to their po box and the lady at the post office said that they can't do PO box shipment when it's expressed.. she couldn't tell me why which sucked so I sent it to there physical address.

 

Yeah, that's just strange.
I only called about priority though and they said no problem at all with PO Box to Australia.
I'm going with that..lots cheaper too and covered up to $400.
Why did you choose express?

 

I chose express cause it's supposed to get out there sooner, I haven't really driven my car, so I just figured the sooner they get it the sooner they send it back. Matt said they have a 1 day turn around.

 

Saw you headed to work last Tuesday.