Yes it is real time I'd assume that dr drift would intstall a daughter board into the r33 ecu you'd then use an emulator to modify the rom and then burn a new chip with your tune and your done.
Some tuners use a development ecu which has the daughterboard installed and use that to develop the tune and then burn and install a "chip" into the customers ecu.
The advantage of nistune is that you plug your laptop into your consult plug via a consult interface and make the adjustments, no emulator or programmer required.
I believe that you can use nistune on a r33 ecu with a daughter board installed.
Ah Ok, I was thinking bout using my r33 ecu but being in SA It seems easier to go a z32 ecu with nistune.
Besides nistune allows realtime tuning though consult port and dataloging, which is really what I wan't.
Becareful talking about Benefits of STD ecu over PFC.
ALOT of people around here love them
Nah PFC does have better map resolution over std ecu 20 x 20 over 16 x 16.
Not enough for me though, I'd rather keep the knock retard function of the std ecu rather than a winky check engine light.
Yeah the r33 is a bit of a pain, this is apparently due to nissan changing to hitachi H8 chip.
You need a daughter board to use an emulator to enable you to make changes real time and these are unfortunately expensive.
There are guys out there that do R33 tuning but they would have an ecu with daughterboard installed to do the tune and the burn that data onto a H8
chip and put that into a 64 pin socket in your ecu.
So yes it's possible to "chip" R33 ecu's but it ain't cheap.
I was thinking that the water return for the turbos could be routed around the front of the engine
to a fitting in the thermostat housing.
Has anyone tried this?
On second thought why wouldn't you just tee them together and use the exhisting return for the factory return.
WTF 400 bucks where does he get his daughter boards from.
Man that is soooooo cheap.
If I lived in sydney I'd go that way.
However Z32 ecu does have some extra functionality over r33.
eg. thermofan control, 2 O2 sensors etc.
So there can be advantages to the swap.
here is a thead that i started on nissan ecu tuning forum
http://ecu2.forumwise.com/ecu2-thread1825.html
have a look here for general ecu tuning info.
http://eccs.hybridka.com/
Bling bling, eg. west coast custom style, pimp my car and the like.
That stuff just looks absolute crap and really only suits fat ased american execs trying to be gangsters, oh and the ladies.
hot tip, leave the bling to the ladies