Thread: car wont start... help!

OK, you've got the serial interface cable hanging out there (good givaway it's a Calum), and the four black screws with what appear to be allen head bolts do not appear consistent with OEM installation. I'd go ahead and unscrew those and pop that board (carefully, electrostatic precautions apply) to see if the EEPROM chips are under there.

Darrin

Place ecu in kitchen oven, bake at 450 for 20 minutes.....This should solder all connections back together. J/p

lol thanks for the advice!



ok i will pop that daugterboard and snap a pic.

If you want my Z32 ECU il sell it to you for good prices like china man

possibly, i will keep you in mind if we cant figure this out.

okay, after a little more work today it turns out that I think someone syphoned my gas and I wore my starter out.

I knew my gas was low when I stoped driving the car but now the needle was way below E. I also noticed some pry marks on my gas door. How irritating and low...

Anyways I think I wore my starter out trying to start it without gas (before i knew it was syphoned) because now it just clicks and i double checked my battery to make sure it wasnt dead. it read 12.50 V so i just ended up pop starting it.

Finally some luck... it started (with the stock ecu and the maf unplugged) by poping it but didnt stay running but we're getting somewhere now, yay!

hopefully i will get my safc neo soon and go from there...

okay i opened it back up and took some pictures of what i think you guys are saying is the daughterboard, lmk what you think...

This is a Calum Basic with a direct laptop serial connection. Works great with a USB to Serial Adapter w/FTDI chip.

The 2 SST chips are on the bottom of your daughterboard and can be reburned with the desired configuration (shown in last pic). The two levers releases the chips (note the direction of the chips orientation & socket slot position location).

Handle the daughtboard, chips & ribbon cable carefully... Fragile

Another way to notice quickly, is that the basic daughterboard never came with an external back-up battery. Calum's newer RT ECU's also don't come up with the two AA battery backup, IIRC. The daughterboard would clearly define itself as a realtime with revision number imprinted on the board, as well.

And the SST chips as pictured are in the correct orientation -- with the notch toward the ZIF handle.