Brett's old orange lib wagon questions.

SuBaRiNo · Post by **SuBaRiNo** » Tue Nov 15, 2011 9:18 pm

Just looking for some additional information on how this vehicle is set up as far as the engine management goes.

I have to do some wiring on this and I needed to know (at the time it left Brett's pocession) if it was using the correct ecu for the motor and the piggy back computer was just used for performance and to compensate for the engine mods.? Or was the piggy back used to make an incorrect ecu work with this motor? (eg: maybe an ej22 ecu on ej25 motor)

It's basically due for a wiring overhall and it won't be running the piggy back anymore due to unreliability.

Dave

SuBaRiNo · Post by **SuBaRiNo** » Thu Nov 17, 2011 7:05 pm

No one knows anything about it? Does Brett still come on the forums?

Dave

YouTube · Post by **El_Freddo** » Thu Nov 17, 2011 10:31 pm

It's orange

Sorry I'm of no other help. I think brett is on here from time to time...

Cheers

Bennie

Gannon · Post by **Gannon** » Fri Nov 18, 2011 4:59 am

Didnt Vidler buy this? and I thought it had a turbo motor?

SuBaRiNo · Post by **SuBaRiNo** » Fri Nov 18, 2011 8:31 am

Yeah Vidler had it. Someone else has it now. And yeah sorry it's turbo.

Dave

RSR 555 · Post by **RSR 555** » Fri Nov 18, 2011 10:25 am

El_Freddo wrote:It's orange

Sorry I'm of no other help. I think brett is on here from time to time...

Cheers

Bennie

hahaha.. that was my only help to Dave too

Would be good to hear from Brett, so Dave can get this car in a reliable condition, so Matt can take it out with confidence.

Gannon · Post by **Gannon** » Fri Nov 18, 2011 3:14 pm

Just did some searching for threads created by vidler and there is mention of a Microtech LTX8

AndrewT · Post by **AndrewT** » Fri Nov 18, 2011 4:32 pm

What I remember...

Brett had it set up with a custom built motor, and a Microtech aftermarket map based ECU. It still had most of a butchered original loom in the car but the running of the actual motor was done by the Microtech.
When that motor crapped itself, I *think* a matching loom and stock motor were installed from a frontcut bought from JWS Wangara - possibly even done by JWS mechanics. So based on that, it *should* be fairly good wiring wise, but I don't know perhaps some of the original loom was still left in.

Sounds like it needs an entire donor loom installed to fix it up once and for all.

SuBaRiNo · Post by **SuBaRiNo** » Fri Nov 18, 2011 8:33 pm

JWS have done nothing to the harness. I have had a bit to do with this car lately and the wiring is still very far from satisfactory. How ever it was when Brett sold it the engine management system is still wired the same.

It has a microtech I want to remove. I want to wire it back up to the factory loom and computer but I'm worried that the computer isn't even for an ej25 turbo. At the end of the day it's not a race car and it does need to be reliable.

Dave

D3V1L · Post by **D3V1L** » Sat Nov 19, 2011 12:01 pm

from what i can recall davo, the origional ecu was only part of the car to run the auto gearbox? got its info from the microtech and did its thing with the auto (caus engine comp wont run it)

davo

woody.t · Post by **woody.t** » Mon Nov 21, 2011 1:58 am

http://www.ozliberty.com/home/forum/top ... rbo-12746/

might give some info..

RSR 555 · Post by **RSR 555** » Mon Nov 21, 2011 3:15 am

Might be best to find a WRX (GC model) auto loom and install that, then have AllStar Garage tune it to suit the EJ25. You probably be best to ask ASG (before buying it) what version they can currently tune. The Impreza has a pretty similar layout to the Gen2's.

Otherwise make a suggestion to Matt, to have it converted to manual and just use a EJ25T wiring loom.