MCM's 2ZR swap

[benoityip]

I just talk to the turner about standalone ecu in my car. It will take him 5 days to do the wiring and 2 days to do the ecu tuning. It will cost 8000AUD around. MCM reality show does not mention this and make the wiring look easy. With haltech their sponsor, who would spend 8000 just for an ecu.

[06YarisRS]

Originally Posted by benoityip

I just talk to the turner about standalone ecu in my car. It will take him 5 days to do the wiring and 2 days to do the ecu tuning. It will cost 8000AUD around. MCM reality show does not mention this and make the wiring look easy. With haltech their sponsor, who would spend 8000 just for an ecu.

That doesn't sound right at all. Even if that included the cost of the ECU, that's outrageous. I did all of my wiring for the AEM F/IC and it took a total of a few hours to physically do the wiring. Figuring out the wiring from schematics took a few more hours. I did spread this over many days but I was also doing other stuff to the car. Why not ask for a detailed written quote? You could scan it and post it up here. I would love to see that.

Yes, MCM did not mention the $1200.00 ecu or how long it took to wire it and create a basemap and final mapping from scratch. Depending on the ecu you buy, there may be basemaps online that would get your car running, then usually a few hours on the dyno should result in a safe, reliable tune.