The Pros And Cons Of Running A Apexi Pfc With Rb25Det

[Hanaldo]

LOl? And who told you it doesnt have a Knock sensor? IF you have one it must be broken or you havent picked that option .

Cause my Power FC has everything from Inj Duty to Knock to Air to Water temp. No gauges needed here mwahaha

+1 Power fc

Sid

Yeh I said knock control not knock sensors. If your engine is knocking then the power fc won't do anything to stop it, it will just flash a little light at you. Nistune will switch to a knock map automatically.

[bubba]

R32 GTR doesn't Yet anyway, Matt from nistune is working on it afaik

Doesn't have knock control? or doesn't support knock display over the consult port?

[Beer Baron]

well I think I'm qualified to answer this. I've had power FC's in about 8 of my cars. they are great. easy to tune, reliable, cheap to buy (well except for RB25). hand controller is very handy (lol), they do lots of little things very well (nice stable idle, good injector control, good auxillary control, good base maps).

I recently had the power Fc in my silvia (SR20, trust turbo kit, nismo 550cc injectors, Z32 AFM etc) replaced with a nistuned ecu. to be honest it runs just as well on the nistune as it did on the power FC. however in the little silvia which has no aftermarket gauges I do miss the handcontroller to check things. that's about it.'

there is really not much to choose between them.

[bubba]

however in the little silvia which has no aftermarket gauges I do miss the handcontroller to check things. that's about it.'

CarPC + Datascan

I also have the NIStune software on my carpc but that's a little too full on for day-to-day monitoring and diagnostics.

Edited March 30, 2011 by bubba

[trick]

there are no cons for running a power fc........ all good

[Nissan Nutter]

thanks for all the replies guys

i currently have a power fc for my rb20 that i paid $1600 for about two years ago so i don't want to get rid of it if i can help it, i know there is a different model for the rb26 but will my power fc run a rb25 fine or is there a different model for that one aswell???

[tridentt150v]

Not sure for 20>25, but it depends on the RB25 model as well, VCT etc in later models changes the mix

[tridentt150v]

CarPC + Datascan

I also have the NIStune software on my carpc but that's a little too full on for day-to-day monitoring and diagnostics.

bubba can you post up a pic or a link of the setup? sort of interested in seeing the display for datascan?

[bubba]

bubba can you post up a pic or a link of the setup? sort of interested in seeing the display for datascan?

No pics handy but here is their website, pretty sure it's made by the same people that run plmsdevelopments and NIStune.. http://www.nissandatascan.com/

I've got the original Nissan Datascan I, not the new Dash version. The latest software even has support for a few widebands, allowing you to include the wideband readings in your datalogs.

[SpeedWhore]

Oops sorry didnt know thats what you meant .

And the your point is? its not really hard to look over for a split second its mounted right infront of me anyway. So mount gauges on your frame and get defected ^.^ Really whats the point of them unless your car is a track car? I think the hand controller is enough. No one in a street car in there right mind needs to know the Exhaust temperature.

Sid

[Hanaldo]

Oops sorry didnt know thats what you meant .

And the your point is? its not really hard to look over for a split second its mounted right infront of me anyway. So mount gauges on your frame and get defected ^.^ Really whats the point of them unless your car is a track car? I think the hand controller is enough. No one in a street car in there right mind needs to know the Exhaust temperature.

Sid

Well Power FC is a defect anyway so not like that really matters.

I have oil temp, water temp, oil pressure and boost. All pretty vital, and when I'm warming the car up I don't give the car more than half throttle until oil temperature is at 80 degrees and oil pressure is sitting just above 60psi. I have an ARK MFD in my car as well as the guages, the screen would be a bit bigger than that on a PFC hand controller but I still find it impossible to read while driving. I mainly use it's peak recall and alert settings to check up on things.