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Ultimate EMU install writeup + tuning

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This is for you s14 guys that choose to go the Emanage Ultimate route. The EMU is a great tuning system with realtime data logging, realtime recordable maptracing, and I/j and ignition timing adjustments.

EMU allows you to tune injectors and ignition timing via a map sensor! This is great stuff.

What you need for a good reliable EMU system:
Emanage Ultimate system (comes with software)
EMU harness kit
Greddy Pressure Sensor (or boost controller that uses the same pressure sensor)
Greddy pressure sensor harness

Installing the EMU is not that difficult, but should not be done unless you fully understand the wiring schematics.

First you need to setup the jumpers in the Emanage ultimate.
Here is what the board will look like when you get it out of the case:
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This is how I have my jumpers set:
Jp1: open jp4: open jp7: 1-2 jp10: 2-3 jp13: open jp16: open jp19: 1-2
Jp2: open jp5: open jp8: 1-2 jp11: open jp14: open jp17: 1-2 jp20: 1-2
Jp3: open jp6: open jp9open jp12: open jp15: 1-2 jp18: open

Some of these jumpers don’t matter what you put them on, but this is what I have setup and my setup works flawlessly.

Wiring in the EMU is not too difficult, but it is tedious. I have made some diagrams that will work for both obd1 and obd2 s14s. (wiring is color coded properly for obd1 s14 to my knowledge)

Mass airflow wiring
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Injector wiring
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Ignition/Knock/Vehicle speed
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I recommend you solder all spliced connections, the bullet connectors that come with the EMU will suffice for the connections that require cutting an ecu wire.

Next you need to install your pressure sensor and hook it up to vacuum source. It would be best to give the sensor its own vacuum line, straight off the intake manifold or i/c piping. Then, just route the wiring harness through your firewall and plug it into the EMU.

You are now done installing the EMU, take a break and get you something to eat.


It is now time to setup the parameters in the software for your vehicle. It is best that you leave your stock injectors/mafs installed on your car, to make sure the system is working properly before you install larger injectors.

Install the program on your computer using the directions in the manual (self explanatory). Connect your laptop to the car and turn the key on, but don’t start your vehicle. Something should pop up and ask if you want to install connection software. After you are done installing the software, turn your key off then on while the emanage program is running. It will ask if you want to connect realtime, click yes. Then, click the car icon, then the vehicle tab. Your screen should look like this:

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My car has a z32 mafs, if yours doesn’t leave “airflow change to” blank. Your crankshaft offset angle may very, I will explain in the tuning section. But 7-9 is usually where it will fall.

Next click the IGN tab and set like this:
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Then, click Front panel tab and setup like this:
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You should now be able to start your car if you have the stock injectors installed. If not, you have made a wiring or jumper setting error.

So, now that you got your EMU installed and running on stock injectors, it is time to throw in those bigger injectors and get started. Make sure you have everything in the screenshots above correct. Read the tuning manual!!!

First, click on the car icon and bring up parameter settings. There is an option under the I/J tab to change your I/J before and after, but you do not want to fool with this. It inhibits stalling issues and bad drivability. So leave it as is >
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Now with the car off and the ignition on, click on throttle tab. Floor the accelerator and let off, this will set your min and max throttle voltages. Then click ok.

Then click on the map select tab and check off the boxes I have checked off. Click ok.

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Notice on the left in the map tree, these items are now visible. Double click on the I/J adj. first. Change the parameter to greddy pressure sensor voltage. Since you installed bigger injectors you will need to subtract fuel everywhere the amount depends on how big your injectors are. - (20 - 30) is a good starting point for 550cc’s. If you have bigger injectors subtract more, and if smaller subtract less.


Now try to start you car. If it doesn’t start at all either your subtracted percentage is way off, or you have a wiring / injector problem. Once it is started let you car get to operating temp. Then look at your wideband and see if you are rich or lean. Adjust the percentage accordingly, until you get close to 14.5:1 - 15.5:1.
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With the car running, click on the icon that is 2 icons to the right of the car icon. This is the datalogging utility. Open it up and click on the button with the arrow pointing to it. You can select anything you want, but these are what I recommend for now. If you have the wideband harness you can datalog afrs also. See what your timing is at idle according to the logger, then go check this with a timing light. If they differ, you need to adjust the crank offset angle in the vehicle parameter settings until they are the same. Play around with the logger and find out all of its features as it is a very important tool.
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Before you go driving around you need to retard your timing via the ignition Adj map. Double click it in the map tree until it pops up. Switch the drop box to relative pressure. Insert negative numbers to retard timing. I suggest you set your y axis like mine, buy selection change scale, and entering the values. This is what my map looks like. These numbers may seem very retarded to you, but 1* of timing on the emu is more like .7* in real life. I suggest you use this map to start off with. When you make a run, datalog it and see what your actual timing number are and make corrections from there. This is about 14* total timing at 14psi, which is a good starting point.
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Your car should now drive around normal in light throttle. Your car will definitely be too lean for wot runs with -25% everywhere. Find out what pressure sensor voltage corresponds to boost threshold using your boost gauge or the datalogger. You will need to richen up the values below this voltage. You can see where the EMU is reading from by using the map trace utility. To the right of the car icon there is a button with a line graph on it. Click that to activate the map trace. Go look at you I/j adj map and notice that there is now one box highlighted yellow. Tap the throttle lightly, and you will see it move around. The highlighted box is the value that the emanage is reading at the current moment. If you go to the car icon, then click trace, and set it to 10sec, you can see the path that the highlighted value takes. It will leave a trail behind the highlighted box for 10seconds.
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To tune the I/j map you need to drive around and make changes according to you wideband and maptracing. With 550cc injectors, 50trim, and blow through mafs (z32) my finished map looks like this. This is tuned for ~14psi and under. Take it slow, if you are not confident in your ability to tune the map. If you for some reason hit a “rev limiter” in higher rpms on wot runs, your emanage is seeing 100% I/j duty cycle. You fix this by going under the boost limiter cut feature and entering the voltage where this occurs, Probably around 4.0volts.
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You will probably notice that when you tap the throttle quickly, your wideband flashes lean for a second. This can cause light knock when switching gears under wot. To fix this issue pull up the I/j acceleration map and enter 15 in all of the boxes. These will help richen up the lean throttle tip in issues.
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There are other ways, methods of tuning using the emanage ultimate. This is just the way that works best for me after many tries. There is also a way to switch to speed density which I may cover at a later time.

Use my maps and wiring diagrams as reference only. I am in no way responsible for any damage caused by the use of anything in this post..
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dude! you ***** rock! thanks for taking my advice! 8)
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This is my Cristmas present to ka-t.org and the community. I wish someone would have done this when i was first trying to install the EMU. So, i figured this will help people that are stareing at the ecu wiring and scratching their heads.

SeanC and baby Jesus were my inspiration for this write up. Thank them.
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now heres the one to be stickied :lol:
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Post by cervasa »

awsome write up im going to double check everything on my non working install

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Very cool of you to do that.
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Post by trsilvias13 »

great write up.

But for those who does not want to wire or do no feel comfortable with wiring, go here

http://www.boomslang.us/ultimate.htm

plug n play for those who wants to use the EMU
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trsilvias13 wrote:But for those who does not want to wire or do no feel comfortable with wiring, go here

http://www.boomslang.us/ultimate.htm
Wow, $240! I'm glad I'm good at wiring!
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Post by assideways »

thanks so much for doing this!!!

i'll definitely be double, triple checking all my wiring and parameters.

cant wait for the weather to get nice again so i can complete the transition from the safc to the EMU.

thanks again!!!
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Post by Kfred »

I will someday be doing a tuning writeup on the emanage ultimate. I was planning on doing it shortly after the install writeup, but college is killing me. Between calculus 2, physics, chemistry2, geology, biology, and work,I have little time on my hands.

Right now i am working on a speed density setup where the mafs can be completely removed.

Anyone considering using the emu should note that you do not need to buy a z32mafs. Right before the stock mafs maxes out you can program the emu to switch to map. I'll explain further in my writeup, if i ever get time.
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Now with tuning advice/ how to.
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STICKY THIS!!!!

one question though:
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even though the parameters are modified from the sr to ka, you kept the injector size at 370 instead of the ka's 270? i'm guessing these parameters dont matter?
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No you leave them as is. Your car will start and drive like normal with the above settings if you have stock injectors. I would advise you to leave these setting alone. If you need to make a fuel adjustment do it in the i/j adj. map.
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With the 850cc injectors I had some starting issues without using the injector correction parameters. I ended up screwing around with the injector lag and size until it was coming out to what I had calculated it to be. I'd imagine the datalog for injector output isn't entirely accurate otherwise. It's not really necessary unless you're a nut like me.

What I've actually wondered is if you'll get less resolution without adjusting injector input and output lag. I theorized that input lag is injector "on" time that is ignored by the ECU when reading pulse width. If the output lag is the same as input, it wouldn't matter unless you went below whatever you have set for lag,


Also, have you tried going fully off a MAP referenced table? Mine ended up all over the place with the ECU trim functions, so I went back to MAF reference for as much of the map as I could, then extend the map after the MAF limit with a secondary MAP referenced table.
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All of my fuel corrections are done via mapsensor voltage. I have run with map only, mafs unplugged and my car ran great.

Then the next day it was 30degrees hotter outside and my car was pig rich at wot. So, i need to setup the iat temp vs. i/j adj map. I don't have time to full with it right now, so i went back to mafs.

What version of the software do you have? Because if you have version 2.0? or better it will make a mafs reference voltage table for you. By adjusting your boost controller you can get a pretty good reference map, some of the voltages you will have to guess at though. Then you just enter the recorded/guessed values in the airflow output map.

Not using the i/j correction worked best for my setup, but i guess the size of the injectors makes a difference.
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sorry to thread resurrect, but it's relevant to the context here.

Running an Altima (and yes I posted this in the advanced section, I probably should have posted it here instead) I'm having the issue of the EMU sending a +12 instead of -12 to my injectors. How would I swap that? My injectors fire on -12, dunno if you guys fire on +12 in the 240's or not.
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There's a lot of information in this thread, cant wait to see more info about using a map sensor. Only thing here that's a bit blurry is the jumpers, but I guess It will make more sense when I get the EMU opened up.
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SpoolTool wrote:There's a lot of information in this thread, cant wait to see more info about using a map sensor. Only thing here that's a bit blurry is the jumpers, but I guess It will make more sense when I get the EMU opened up.
You will understand when you take the board out of the case. I didn't do a follow up on the map sensor, because there is now very little interest in the EMU. With the other options available like calumRT and nistune, i can't say i blame anyone.

I still like my emu and don't plan on ditching it anytime soon. I'm going to make over 400whp on a piggyback :D. I'm already making atleast 330whp on it.

If you have any questions or anything is unclear, pm me.
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Sticky this please, this is a great option for many people that want to tune their own setup.
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NOTE TO S13 GUYS!!!
If you connect MAF wire going into pin 47 as shown above, You will blow your ECU, and maybe the EMU as well... Don't ask me how I know. :oops: On an S13 ECU the green wire from Pin 22 on Connector B will go to Pin #16 on the ECU.

One ? Kfred. Have you had any problems trying to datalog Ignition Timing?

Great job on the write up btw! Time for some tuning lessons for us yet??? It IS Christmas again you know... :wink:
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^ i'll pm you
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hey guys.. for S13 onwer that install/gonna install emu heres the pin out for the s13
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just incae the link dont work here ya go..got from s14racing(hope he dont mind)

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im about to install my e manage ultimate. but before i do. does anyone have any updates on installing it or tips?
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Just take your time wiring it in, tripple check the wiring diagrams. You may want to get the ecu pinout and installation manual and double check my wiring diagrams. I took my time and went over them a few times but that doesn't mean i still didn't make an error somewhere.

The only thing that should be different from my diagrams to the installation manual are the crank/cam signals. Mine are right and the manual's are wrong.

If you have any questions pm me.
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does the blue emanage wire harness work with the ultimate i bought a ultimate had a blue emu and just failed sent it to greddy said they couldnt fix it. just wondering if i had get a new harness?
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sorry to resurrect such an old thread, but i do have a question regarding the boomslang harness.

is the harness wired with the correction to cam/crank wiring taken into consideration? reason for my question is that after i purchased the harness, my idle became very lean. i havent gone through all the wires yet, but plan to do so tomorrow. before, when everything was wired up according to kfred's instructions, everything was fine. i just wanted to clean things up with a boomslang harness, and take care of some crappy solder joints that were my fault.

if anyone has any info on this, i'd greatly appreciate it!
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I don't know if boomslang fixed the cam angle sensor issue or not, but i highly doubt it. Go to the datalogger and see what your timing is at idle, if it says something stupid like 90* then they didn't fix the wiring issue. You can also back-trace the boomslang harness and make sure it matches with my schematics.

The cam/crank sensor wiring will not have an affect on your afrs though, that would be related to something in the mafs or injector wiring. You can ohm out all the pins in the boomslang harness to make sure they all have good connections.
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thanks for your quick response man.

yeah, you're dead on, my timing is ridiculous on the data logger.. i'll definitely be rewiring that harness tomorrow. hope i'll find what the problem is with the afr..

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Post by 98blackkat »

Great write up. this is helping with some questions. few questions. have you run the auto correct with the wideband and you said some jumpers dont matter have you played with any of them to see what they do?
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