New Flashpro User: Quick Questions

FlashPro questions & answers specific to the 2006-2011 Americas Civic Si
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Omnila
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New Flashpro User: Quick Questions

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I've heard a billion different things about Flashpro and most have been good. After receiving my unit I am both hesitant and excited to flash my ECU. The problem with that being, I'm not a professional tuner. I do mean to get my car tuned by VIT in the future, but as for now I just want something that'll get the basics of the job done. I've seen several configurations that could apply to my car, but all in all I'm scared of damaging my motor, and even worse yet my ECU.

What are things that would damage my engine???

What are things that could potentially harm my ECU???

My setup right now is a Fujita SRI and a Full Race 76mm exhaust. What would be a good configuration to use??? I've been told to use several different free configurations available, and the only one that seems to be a consensus is the "AEM CAI, Skunk2 Race Header, Full-Race 3" Exhaust" config. Should I stay away from this?
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Re: New Flashpro User: Quick Questions

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As long as you don't do anything silly, like raise the rev limiter to 9000 rpm, nothing from the FlashPro is going to increase the chance of engine damage. As far as ECU damage; we've never seen that happen apart from engine swap bad wiring, and only then once or twice.

Any air intake will modify the AFM signal, sometimes by 35-40%, so chances are the engine is not running anywhere close to where it should be at the moment with the stock ECU. For a starting calibration match based on the closest intake. Since there is no starting Fujita calibration I'd use the 'stock equivalent' until you can get tuned.
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