I have to go with a standalone to get rid of the MAF on my car. The only option I have for my car is a Hydra EMS. I see them mainly on miata's and wrx's. There are now a few tiburons runnning around with them and they sem to be good. I want to know what long term users have experienced and any user info on the hydra EMS in general.

You can see it here http://www.hydraems.com/ and they even have a forum.

 

What about MapECU2 if not the hydra EMS?

 

I've seen a couple STi's with it.

 

Why is the only option a Hydra? There are a lot of universal standalones on the market, and it call comes down to tuning no matter what. Most of the plug and play units are just universals with an adapter harness and the right software settings pre-loaded for your engine, unless you have a really popular car like a WRX. Popular cars often have drop in replacement boards, connector specific ECUs, etc. I don't you're going to find any of that for your car, so you can choose from a lot of options like AEM, Hydra, Link, etc.

 

I believe HKS has a piggyback ecu that will convert a map signal into a mas/maf signal.

 

i believe your thinking of the greddy emanage, the only ecu that hks has to my knowledge is the standalone one. i could be wrong but w/e. not many companies even bother with a piggyback if they already have a standalone product cause they're garbage. too be honest apex is the only one i can think of...

 

Right now there s a harness made for the Hydra to be plug and play with my car. I would love to be able to wire in the AEM but I don't know how to wire it up.

 

You could make the same type of adapter harness for the AEM or any other type of compatible ECU, it's just converting the Tiburon harness pinout to the ECU pinout so car-specific connectors don't have to be built in to the aftermarket ECU. Any ECU that meets your hardware requirements will work though..

 

HKS makes one... I forget what the newer one is called. Old school one is VPC.

If you want to drop the MAF, you can do the MAPECU as someone suggested, probably the easiest. If you need a standalone, there are a milllion options. What kind of car, is the car in question? Haltech just came out with all new shit as well, really nice.