Originally Posted by Erik B
Thats my point about Hondata being alot of money. Just to through a price out there Jotech Motorsports in Dallas will tune the Hondata for $500 so add that up. If you don't have any trust worthy tuners in the local area you will need to drive so add that trave money to the "base" hondata and your looking at alot of money. This is something someone new to the import tuning world should say away from till they have alot of engine mods and kinda knows whats going on....thats my whole point...but good luck either way.
Let's not leave out the $100-$150 for a P28 ECU and the $200 for a OBD1 harness just to use the S100 hondata system. Now you have to pay someone everytime you need it tuned.
This said to answer the direct question, yes Hondata and VAFC have the same general purpose. That said, the hondata does WAY more.
Hondata is a great system but I personally just can't see getting one and buying the S100 base system. I would certainly get the S200 system for it's upgradeability and then you just upped the cost more.
If you want to do bolt on's and even mild cams a VAFC is more than enough and is easy to learn to tune all for a cheap price.
Trey