As the sig says i have a 1997 civic with a jdm b18c engine and jdm type r ecu. Problem with that ecu is that it has a speedlimiter at 200KPH which i would like to remove

a budy of mine says that he has an sir ECU that is unlocked for the speed but has an 8200rpm rev limiter. since i never go anywhere near 8000rpm before shifting i don't think that would be problem. what wories me is that the vtec is set to kick in at 4800rpm instead of 6200rpm like mine.

I'm wondering if that would be a good thing to have or bad given that i have the type r tranny which turns at ~3500rpm at 60 miles/hour.

any opinions on this would be apreciated because i don't want to blow my engine either :a:

 

why do you need to remove a speed limiter for 200 kph? That's ~124 mph for us Americans. :goodjob:

Do you really go faster than that all that often? If so... :ugh:

 

why remove the speed limiter again....? :thinking:

 

reason is that when racing it annoys me rather seriously when someone passes be just because the computer says i'm going fast enough. I want to be able to go as fast as the car and myself can handle in the given situation and i can handle faster than 200kph in some of those situations

 

You can get the limiter removed, but it's stupid if you ask me. Unless you're racing on a sanctioned track (which, I know you're not) there's no reason for you to be going that fast on public streets and endangering others around you. It's jmo and I'm not your mom or anything, I just don't see the point. You'd rather take the chance of killing yourself and possibly someone else going 120+ mph just to win a race on the street.

Again, it's your life and your car, I just hope you don't take some innocent kid down with you.

 

I fully agree about the kids and such, when i race it's a deserted road with not so much as a house within several miles of our location and it is thoroughly verified that nobody else is around

there are only 2 people involved or at risk, myself and the person that's racing me so both people know and accept the risk

 

Is it OBD1 or OBD2?

 

There is no such thing as an OBD1 type R ecu.... :slap:

 

i think it's OBD2. it's from a 2000 ITR

thing is that before doing the swap to the sir ECU i wanna be sure it's safe for the engine and such. if it is it will be a cheap way to remove the speed limiter because i can get the ecu for free from a buddy :cheers:

otherwise i'll wait till i can get it chipped properly but, from the info i have, that's more expensive to do on the jdm ecu than the US one

 

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