Safc I Worth Having At All?

[made_guy]

So i'm wondering for like $60 or something is it worth getting a SAFC I just to have a minor fiddle with my AF mixes to get the most out of my mild mods (FMIC/POD/CAT-BACK/BOOST-TEE)??

I know people will say "get an emanage/power fc etc etc if you want to be serious" but i don't, i just want the cheapest possible improvement for now and I want to know if the first generation SAFCs will give me ANY benefit?

[R34GTFOUR]

in principle they will, anything to help clean up you afr will net you hp gains, and better economy aswell

in reality they are a very basic tool, that only offers 5 tuning points. Me and my bro did a n/a auto to turbo manual conversion on a mates r33, near the end of the conversion he was running out of money (as everyone does haha), but anyway he got the first generation safc for 40bucks. On the dyno it made bugger all difference (although this does come down to the tuner aswell), and the adjustments on the safc were barely adjusted.

Long story short, if you could snap it up for say 50bucks, then get it tuned for a 100 (they take bugger all time to tune), then i say its probably worth it if you dont have big plans for the car, at the very least you may notice a difference in the fuel bill

Edited January 24, 2008 by R34GTFOUR

[paulr33]

safc is fine and good bang per $

sorry i would go for the SAFC the blue screen version

i think you will stuggle with people to tune the older style version

the blue screen version either 1 or 2 is much easier

[made_guy]

ok sweet, thanks, that is some good objective advice - cheers guys

[Adriano]

Or get a jaycar DFA, they are about $80 and have 128 load points, although you need the hand controller which is another $70