does microtech have a website??? Regards Guy ----- Original Message ----- From: "FJ510" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 9:07 PM Subject: Re: What engine management???
> If your $1500 - $2000 is budget for EFI management, plus, fitting, plus > tuning, then you > wouldn't want to spend all your $$$ on just the computer. everyone has > their own personal > taste. Wolf3D are a really good computer, and i have a Microtech MTX-8 and > i reckon it > is perfect for a street car. as for autronic, or motec or haltech or link, > they are all probably > just as good, but whichever one you buy, make sure you buy one that > workshops you know > or trust have a good knowledge on how to tune them that way you get a good > system that > can be fine tuned every time you play with the motor or it's ancilliaries. > > as for this...... > > > > The MT-8 did plus there are other's (microtech owner's) who have reported > > this problem. I don't think it's wide scale but it's known to have > happened > > as I can vouch for > > > > i had my car stall as i was rolling up to the lights one day and i had a > look on the > handset and it had changed it to a factory setup of some sort, i am assuming > rotary > or (and i jest) daihatsu. as it was configured as a 3 cyl. > so i reloaded one of my memcal programs in and away she went, all of a 5 sec > fix. > bit of a shock when it happens coz you have no idea. > to those ppl that its happened to, the only thing that had changed on my car > when it > happened, which may be a clue to whats happening, is that i had just had my > manifold > modified and the TPS was not setup properly so at 1/4 throttle, it was > switching between > 00% and 99% or OFF and ON. it was doing it a lot as that was the cruising > position > of the accel pedal travel. it could be like a pre-programmed failsafe or > reset or something. > the only reason i thought of this was because on some early nissans, R31 i > think if you > had the ignition on and pushed your accelerator pedal X amount of times > while doing something > else or having something switched or unplugged or something it would switch > the computer > into diagnostic mode with the LED's on the ECU. > > hey, who knows. just a thought > > > the computer > > > --membersozdat------------------------------------------------------- OZDAT Mailing List Please Note:- Send (un)subscribe requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send submissions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] No unauthorised redistribution of this email http://www.ozdat.com/ozdatonline/index.htm http://www.ozdat.com/ozdatonline/listindex.html http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------
