I have temporarily re-opened this thread to allow 60-1EK to clear up some things. Please do not post here, I will delete it.

- The Spectacle

 

I just came across this post and debated to respond, but I will say a few things for closure. I was totally unaware of anything going on with all this when CJ contacted me. I offered to look at the car in between tuning cars to help him out.

The first thing I did was check my conversion harness out since I stand behind all my work even though I sold most of my harness business to the guys at rywire.com in Oct. 2005. I went through the entire harness and checked everything out. I noticed that Solero had added the jumper wire between the vtec solenoid and the vtec pressure switch. It was done correctly since this motor had no vtec pressure switch.

John, the reason why the harness looked goofy is because that was one of my original ones back from 2000. Long before your boy Rustin stabbed me in the back and ran with most of my designs right to the copying table. We had a business agreement and I helped him out, supplied him new parts, crimped all his stuff and he stabbed me. Old dirty laundry, long before your time in harnesses and sucks that I trusted someone. The harness may look goofy since it was so old....but it worked flawlessly.

I don't really need to respond to Dave's post as he definately knows more about Crome than I do and has also tuned more setups than I have. But I will say that the Q31 transistor that was burnt did not kill any of the leads on the ecu nor the ecu itself. The ecu still worked and it did not keep the car from running.

Vega, I am convinced that the ecu did not fry from Solero and both CJ and Solero were consulted by myself on the duty cycle issue. I told CJ that the duty cycle was incorrect in Crome, but I also said that he needed to upgrade the injectors as they were too small for that setup. I made sure that Solero knew I told CJ this as well.

I don't understand why you switched to Crome? The spare ecu that went into the car was 100% capable of being tuned on Hondata. The ecu that was pulled, was removed for a burnt Q31....Hondata will work fine with this burnt transistor.

Here is my thoughts on what happened:
I have seen it many times before as I am sure many of the tuners in here have as well, the Bin file was some how corrupted. I installed another Bin file that I had in CJ's ecu and the car was fine. I told CJ that I didn't want to leave that bin in his car since it was a map similar to his setup, but not exact. I just wanted to test the car out with my bin and make sure all was well. I told CJ to contact Solero, have him copy/paste, manually enter...whatever the values from Solero's original map into a new Bin file. At this point, CJ told me that he was done with Solero and was going to Neal. That is where I left it.

I think Solero and the burnt ecu was a scapegoat for a solution from Solero and I see where he was coming from. We were all kind of pissing into the wind trying to figure out what was wrong with it and Solero was spending a lot of time and wasn't gaining good ground. The burnt Q31 had nothing to do with CJ's issues. Solero was trying to find a solution to help CJ out.

I am curious now, what is the duty cycle at now that Neal tuned the car? The injectors were not changed, so what could it be?

Cliff notes:

-Burnt Q31...seriously doubt caused by Solero.
-Burnt Q31 will not stop the car from running on Hondata or Crome.
-I speculate a corrupted Bin file was the culprit for it not running.
-The duty cycle numbers are incorrect in Crome, but they are running way over optimum right now and Solero should have stopped early.
-Why was the car switched from Hondata to Crome? Does Solero not have the Hondata datalogging/romediting capabilities?
-What is the duty cycle at now after Neal has tuned it....probably still really high....beyond safe.

/End.

 

I was hesitant to post also...then when I tried, the thread was locked. Anyway, I knew it was a corrupt file, and even sent a copy to Solero and Vega. The duty cycle is now at at a resonable level(I wasnt looking at duty cyle, i was looking at pulse width/RPM) until 7500. CJ was told not to rev above 7500, he agreed. When he gets bigger injectors, we will finish the tune.

 

If q31 is burnt this "usually" indicates that the IAT sensor plug was mixed up with Evap etc...

This will cause the IAT sensor to take a shit and report false IAT temps.

Was this an issue ?

 

Not for me......

 

behind scenes... solero and i have been talking. and we have agreed on a settlement. but as of right now i have not recieved nothing and i would like to keep it stickied until further notice as spectacle thanks

 

That is correct on switching the connectors. I didn't even hook my laptop up to his car. I just changed chips with a map that I had. I told CJ that he would be wasting his money paying me to tune the car since it would need to be retuned anyway once he got the new injectors.

Great, now how did your post contribute to anything that is going on here. Someone delete the crap in this thread.

 

relocked.

- The Spectacle