ecu reset question
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ecu reset question
After pulling the terminal and reseting the ecu, what are the steps to get the ecu from running off the factory presets? I went to try and get my POS emission tested in GA this week and they said it failed because my car is still running off the factory presets and not by the sensors. I drove the car 60 miles in all different RPMs after I resetted the ECU (had to stick the EGR map switch back on). Any ideas? Looks like I'm taking a trip back to florida this weekend.
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sometimes they are tempremental and take a while to learn everything that's on the car again........ can take from a couple hours, to a week or so, depending on how often you are driving the car....... have you tried a sustained drive on the freeway? like 30 minutes above 60 or something like that?
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James, I've passed the emissions tests here in FL with my old f-body without evening having a cat on it with all the normal bolt on's, it passed with a little room to spare.
With a big cam, long tube headers, no smog pump, no EGR, nothing but a cat I still passed emissions.
Reseting the ECU shouldn't effect emissions by any margin that would cause you to pass or fail, especially with stock cams, the ECU will quickly make the proper corrections to the AFR from O2 sensor feedback to maintain a stoich/14.7:1 AFR, if you didn't pass there has got to be a problem somewhere else.
What part of the test did you fail?
With a big cam, long tube headers, no smog pump, no EGR, nothing but a cat I still passed emissions.
Reseting the ECU shouldn't effect emissions by any margin that would cause you to pass or fail, especially with stock cams, the ECU will quickly make the proper corrections to the AFR from O2 sensor feedback to maintain a stoich/14.7:1 AFR, if you didn't pass there has got to be a problem somewhere else.
What part of the test did you fail?
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in GA, they connect to the computer to if it is 96+ newer car and get everything off that instead of sticking something up the pipe. The place said the catalytic wasn't ready (this includes: egr, o2 sensors, heating o2 sensors, etc.).
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come back to florida and renew here..... just tell the people in georgia you are on a long vacation. 
probably be cheaper than paying them to pass emissions anyway. or grease the guys palms and have him roll a bone stock 2G eclipse onto the machine.
probably be cheaper than paying them to pass emissions anyway. or grease the guys palms and have him roll a bone stock 2G eclipse onto the machine.
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No time to take off anytime soon to drive to florida. The CE light came back on after 200 miles later. So, this means it takes that long for it to start working properly. I need to hook up the EGR back up again. Anyone know what vacuum lines go where? The three lines from the TB go to the canister if I remember then the two lines from the canister for to a stop switch then to the manifold. I wish I would have wrote it down. Guess when I get time to do a search I will look for it. Any of you 2Gs can do me a favor and look at your EGR and tell me where the lines go, it would be appreciated. 
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There should be a vacuum diagram of the emissions systems on a decal somewhere on your hood.
If they are plugging into the ECU to see whats going on you may need to get an O2 simulator for the 2nd O2 sensor if you don't have a functioning cat, the cats operational state is determined from feed back from the 2nd O2 sensor, I believe its suppose to give something like a constant .4-.5 volts when operating correctly.
If they are plugging into the ECU to see whats going on you may need to get an O2 simulator for the 2nd O2 sensor if you don't have a functioning cat, the cats operational state is determined from feed back from the 2nd O2 sensor, I believe its suppose to give something like a constant .4-.5 volts when operating correctly.
