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Brett's old orange lib wagon questions.
Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2011 9:18 pm
by SuBaRiNo
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
Posted: Thu Nov 17, 2011 7:05 pm
by SuBaRiNo
No one knows anything about it? Does Brett still come on the forums?
Dave
Posted: Thu Nov 17, 2011 10:31 pm
by El_Freddo
It's orange
Sorry I'm of no other help. I think brett is on here from time to time...
Cheers
Bennie
Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2011 4:59 am
by Gannon
Didnt Vidler buy this? and I thought it had a turbo motor?
Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2011 8:31 am
by SuBaRiNo
Yeah Vidler had it. Someone else has it now. And yeah sorry it's turbo.
Dave
Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2011 10:25 am
by RSR 555
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.
Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2011 3:14 pm
by Gannon
Just did some searching for threads created by vidler and there is mention of a Microtech LTX8
Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2011 4:32 pm
by AndrewT
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.
Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2011 8:33 pm
by SuBaRiNo
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
Posted: Sat Nov 19, 2011 12:01 pm
by D3V1L
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
Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2011 1:58 am
by woody.t
Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2011 3:15 am
by RSR 555
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.