new ECU

[KZL_99ES]

i have a 99 ES 1.8 and wanted to get some more power, and was wonder if its possible to get an ECU from a MP3 or similar more powerful protege?

if anyone has any advice or has an old ECU that they are willing to part with,
please let me know!
thanks,
kevman

[autoxes]

I think that the stock ECU can be reflashed to the specs of those other ones, but don't quote me on it.

[KZL_99ES]

if so, how do i do that, or where do i go to get it done?

i mean if its a computer, it can be adjusted to your liking, right?

[ProtoType5]

The MP3 ECU is tuned for a 2.0L FS-DE not your 1.8L....To do anything you'll need piggy-back or standalone engine management.

[KZL_99ES]

mmmm, you know it would be a lot easier if there was just a computer program that you could run with a laptop and plug right into the ECU itself, right?

that way you could tune your own car how you want without spending a lot of money!

[jamesk]

mmmm, you know it would be a lot easier if there was just a computer program that you could run with a laptop and plug right into the ECU itself, right?

that way you could tune your own car how you want without spending a lot of money!


thats what engine management is. what are you saying, just to plug a laptop into the ecu? thats impossible. there has to be a device that taps between the sensors and ecu. therefore, then the device is able to read off the signals the sensors are sending to the ecu, and then modify those signals to anyway you please.

[LordWorm]

mmmm, you know it would be a lot easier if there was just a computer program that you could run with a laptop and plug right into the ECU itself, right?

that way you could tune your own car how you want without spending a lot of money!

not for our cars....
there are some standard ecu's that can be chipped to be programmable (a few aussie cars can have this done, and i believe some of the high end stuff from VW/Audi can be tuned with minimal modifications), but either our ecu's are incapable of doing it, or noone has spent the time building an interface/reverse engineering the ecu to make it tunable.

so we're stuck with either a piggy back or a stand alone.

[KZL_99ES]

then can anyone direct me to some cheap ones? ( < $300) if possible...

[LordWorm]

then can anyone direct me to some cheap ones? ( < $300) if possible...

its not something you want to do on the cheap to be honest.... it makes some pretty fundimental changes to the way your car works...good tuning control and the ability to tie in with auxillary features of your car are important.

Not sure what piggy backs go for....but you'd need upwards of $1k to get a decent stand alone.