MT-8.....1st REAL MOD.......SHE'S ALIVE!
Ok, I imagine everyone on here has bought something from ebay, forums etc. and has been let down because it either wasn't what you ordered, doesn't work or you simply have been ripped off. I've been in that position more times than I care to remember.
I recently bought a Microtech MT-8 off the forum and thought f*#k it, I'll give it a go at installing it.
With about 5000000 pm's ( I have a word document with all the pm's to prove it and send to other's if they are contemplating the same thing - DIY install) to Evan (tassuperkart) about how to go about it (wire for wire - literally!), I finally managed to work it all out and get it in. Mind you, I had two failed attempts in the process which made my heart sink thinking that it was a dud ECU and I'd been had (no offence to the bloke I bought it off, just a s*#tty world we live in these days that makes me a little un-trusting).
Finally today, I along with Evan on the phone kicked the b*tch over and she ran! Like sh*t, but she ran! I can't begin to tell you the relief I have right now knowing that she'll be ok to go in the future after I clean up all the sh*#tty wiring I made a mess of and a good tune. I've attached some pictures of the mess (sorry about the quality, poor lighting and a mobile phone camera dont mix) and I'll do the same after I clean it all up but for now, I'm loving the fact that she can and will run.
Because I bought this car so cheap (i.e. $1k) and planning to keep it a few more years, I thought I'd stop piss farting around with AFM's, wiggling the old ECU wires and all the other stuff that comes with it and just dive in there and go aftermarket ECU and finally make it run right! I've probably gone backwards in terms of mods, most people do the simple stuff first and then migrate onto ECU's but I thought what heck, there's no time like the present.
Anyway, the actual installation itself was not very difficult at all, however I was an absolute pedantic f*#k about the whole thing and made sure that every sensor had its own plug (so it can be removed and put back to standard within a few hours), each wire was individually soldered onto its pin (not crimped), each plug will have its own corregated loom (still to be cleaned up), all new plugs from NARVA and injector plugs from Petro-Ject and all the old loom fixed up to match the new plugs and pulled back through (which ones arn't needed of course) into the cabin and will be tucked away neatly to be seen again at a later date (if I ever decide to rip the f*#ker out again).
Well, I just wanted to share that with you all, so about the long post and a massive massive thank you to Evan (tassuperkart) for all his efforts helping me along the way. I started out asking him about a 'cold idle compensator' and ended up with 50 pages of pm's, an installed MT-8 and a good friend by the end of it all! Thank you. It's people like him (and other's on here, that make this a great site to visit again and again). I'm looking forward to your visit here to Melb soon and I hope to see allot of you there too (drinks, dinner and some pool sounds great to me).
Now, I've got some cleaning up to do so see ya later dudes.......
Cheer's
Sash
Whoops