Pete,
These Unichip boxes are supposed to be very competitively priced as well, i
think i read they are designed for the more modern "set & forget" systems used
in a lot of cars around these days. Most manufacturers are trying to get more
than their fare share of the aftermarket ECU industry and make the stock unit
very difficult to replace HDT & Tickford are classic examples of this. The piggy
back units that were popular in the mid 80's are now very much back into their
own, one of these units will work with the stock dizzy (so i'm told) and fuel
systems and simply overrides (remaps?) the difference in the signals from the
ECU. Sounds simple enough but i'm sure it's a bit more complex than that - who's
going to buy one and let us know first hand how good they are? With the
introduction of these units i would think the price of the new wave of products
coming on the market just might bring the price down a bit and then along comes
the GST bugga
terry
Pete & Kath Liebig wrote:
> Terry,
>
> Fair enough. Although the Autronic that Errol the Feral one mentioned sounds
> good. Be interesting to see what it's worth.
>
> I've been considering one of those Unichip boxes. I thought they looked
> highly suss at first, but the more I hear about them the more I like them.
> This is what was explained to me: they just go between the factory ECU and
> the igniter/injectors. You back the dizzy off 10 degrees, then the ECU
> functions as per normal, but the Unichip grabs the signal between the ECU to
> the igniter and delays it as required to modify the timing. Same sort of
> deal for the injectors - Unichip grabs the injector pulse and modifies the
> width as required.
>
> And you get to keep the niceties of the factory EFI - cold start, closed
> loop operation for economy and reliable smooth idling. Given that the SR has
> got a pretty reasonable ECU from the factory this option looks quite
> attractive.
>
> Anyone know anything about these things - even better, anyone tried one?
>
> 'later
> PL
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Tuesday, 28 March 2000 1:06
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> Subject: Re: Wolf or motec
>
> Pete,
> Maybe "better" is not the correct word - more like imho the Wolf is a bit
> more
> user friendly for an sob to work out, although they tell me there is a new
> Autronics unit about to come out that's supposed to be idiot proof. From
> what
> i've found with messing around with them a bit and might i add usually on
> cars
> that are not running real well, the Wolf unit seems to give pretty good
> results
> for the street. What i have noticed with these things is that certain brands
> seem to suit a certain engine and sometimes not even manufacturer specific.
> I
> have only tried to get an FJt to at least run reasonably with an autronics
> unit
> a while back and it just was so difficult especially as i was about the 10th
> person to have a go at it; yet we plugged in a Wolf 3D into a Cressida Wagon
> with a 7MGTE (what a sleeper 300+hp) and it ran near perfectly on the
> recommended default program for the engine.
>
> terry
>
> Pete & Kath Liebig wrote:
>
> > Terry,
> >
> > You reckon Wolf is better than Autronic??? I must say I'm surprised at
> that
> > one! I guess it depends which model we are speaking about too...
> >
> > PL
> >
>
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