Vit's FI TT 370Z Lives!

Chuck33079 · 09-14-2016, 07:34 AM

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Originally Posted by VitViper

Pretty sure no one on the market making ECU's targeted at motorsports cares about OBDII. It's a diagnostics/emissions related protocol and these are race/off road ECU's (I have yet to see a single "CARB" approved stand alone ECU -- even when the ECU runs all the factory emissions systems like EVAP, etc, like this M1 can be programmed to do).

So on the diagnostics front... OBDII is inferior compared to plugging my network cable from the ECU into my laptop and pulling 400+ channels of data that shows me EVERYTHING. On the emissions front -- I'm not even going to touch that with a 10ft pole, not with the EPA losing their minds trying to shutdown our race cars lol.

That... and you probably couldn't pay me enough to spend the programming time on it, lol.[/url]

The only reason I asked about OBD was to see if there's a chance to use this on a street car. I understand what OBD is. I couldn't give a rat's *** about emissions or using it for diagnostics, but it would be nice to be able to get the car inspected so I can drive it on the street.

VitViper · 09-14-2016, 08:55 AM

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Originally Posted by Chuck33079

The only reason I asked about OBD was to see if there's a chance to use this on a street car. I understand what OBD is. I couldn't give a rat's *** about emissions or using it for diagnostics, but it would be nice to be able to get the car inspected so I can drive it on the street.

Inspected by...? The local emissions/deq? If so that's kind of an emissions thing, regardless of how either of us feels about it. Pretty sure a turbo kit on one of these cars wouldn't pass an OBDII scan (various codes turned off to keep the ECU happy on my ECUTek map). Unless someone is stalking you, it shouldn't prevent you from running this ECU setup.

In fact, the way I have it setup... I can unplug the M1 and plug the stock VVEL & engine computers in and drive away (yes, the M1 takes the factory VVEL computer out of the picture -- we run it ourselves, no problem). Shouldn't be a problem to keep the stock computers on the shelf for a rainy day -- takes 5 minutes to revert back to them, and their glorious 12 minute reflashes, lol.

Chuck33079 · 09-14-2016, 09:01 AM

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Originally Posted by VitViper

Inspected by...? The local emissions/deq? If so that's kind of an emissions thing, regardless of how either of us feels about it. Pretty sure a turbo kit on one of these cars wouldn't pass an OBDII scan (various codes turned off to keep the ECU happy on my ECUTek map). Unless someone is stalking you, it shouldn't prevent you from running this ECU setup.

In fact, the way I have it setup... I can unplug the M1 and plug the stock VVEL & engine computers in and drive away (yes, the M1 takes the factory VVEL computer out of the picture -- we run it ourselves, no problem). Shouldn't be a problem to keep the stock computers on the shelf for a rainy day -- takes 5 minutes to revert back to them, and their glorious 12 minute reflashes, lol.

Inspected by the state. In TX (and plenty of others) TT kits pass just fine, even without cats. As long as there's no code or it's turned off, it's good. Their computer just has to be able to communicate with the ecu.

Since you can switch back to the stock ecu and have a running, passing car, then this is back on the menu as a possibility.

VitViper · 09-14-2016, 10:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Chuck33079

Inspected by the state. In TX (and plenty of others) TT kits pass just fine, even without cats. As long as there's no code or it's turned off, it's good. Their computer just has to be able to communicate with the ecu.

Since you can switch back to the stock ecu and have a running, passing car, then this is back on the menu as a possibility.

Easy, we can go over the details later. In your case you'd want to pull the factory primary O2's as they will get owned without an ECU running the heater control.

Finalized my fuel pressure & dual IAT sensor install on the car today. Going to rip out the air restrictor plates out of the charge pipes... err... mafs... Although if someone wants to use the IAT's in those and leave the air restrictors in the charge pipes thats fine too -- but not for me, lol.

Getting close. Should have base timing sync verified on it this Saturday. Have to make a new mark and do it from the bottom since you can't see any of the timing marks from the top of the engine bay, LOL.

VitViper · 09-15-2016, 03:26 PM

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