ECU troubles

[Sako]

Hi team

 

My V4 is currently in Possume Bourne Motorsport for a health check and dyno run. Since the initial run they have not been able to communicate with the Microtech ECU, they have tried multiple dongles and laptops with no luck.

 

Has anyone else had an issue like this? The ECU was purchased in 2010 so isn't that old but now i'm looking at having to replace the ECU with a Link G4. Which isn't all that bad, just curious to hear if this has happened to anyone else.

 

Cheers

[Batbaruman]

are you saying it did connect on the initial run and not after that? when was last time you know of that you were able to communicate with it? 100% sure all the right cables are being used? if all else fails could pull it out open up and double check for things like dry joints, re solder then test again.

[94 Leone]

sounds almost like they don't like tuning microtech and are trying to sell you a link, but that's my 2c

[Sako]

are you saying it did connect on the initial run and not after that? when was last time you know of that you were able to communicate with it? 100% sure all the right cables are being used? if all else fails could pull it out open up and double check for things like dry joints, re solder then test again.

I'm assuming It did because they did a run and told me the timing was quite out. It was last dyno'd in 2010 when it was installed but since then turbo and the dump pipe has been changed since then so that makes sense why it's out.

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sounds almost like they don't like tuning microtech and are trying to sell you a link, but that's my 2c

Mmmm I dunno about that but going Link is going to be a big improvement. The Microtek is a bit simple from what I understand.

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[Batbaruman]

they do specialise in link and no doubt you would get a better tune through them using the link than the microtech as that is their tuners tool of choice and the new link is a more capable unit than your old one but since you already have a tunable ecu i would personally spent more time to try get that working first. won't be too hard, just find a mate with a soldering iron, multimeter and basic confidence/common sense with electrical work to give it a once over and see if you can rescue it. . 

 

won't buying the link and having it installed set you back closer to another $2k (over and above tune package) ? if not for anything else then see if you can try getting it working so even if you do go ahead with the link you can recover a fair chunk of $$ by reselling the microtech