Starting to research standalones and aftermarket ECU setups and am curious if anyone has any experiences, positive or negative, that they'd like to share. I am open to any suggestions but am primarily looking at two different setups - the MaxxECU package from BoostbySmith, due to the plug and play nature and current popularity for ZX14s, and a Haltech, since I am familiar with their ecosystem and besides supporting neat laser based wheelie control and advanced TC, it also seems like Haltech can directly control the VVT solenoid on the Concours to maintain VVT function (which helps spool).

Any one have any preferences or thoughts? I planned to wait until I put the built motor in for the standalone, but I am so tired of working around the quirks and annoyances of the stock ECU that now I am thinking of doing it first. Any modern ECU will be a huge upgrade for boost based tuning, proper injector scaling, and boost control capability, so TC and wheelie control is probably most important to me since I cannot stretch or regear my bike making first and second gears basically useless right now.

I'd like to keep stock dash so compatibility with factory gauges would be nice, but I am not against doing an aftermarket LCD dash.

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