Inside my Mbe

[exwinegtrr33]

Hi just opened the Ecu up as you do, can I plug in to that 9 pin on the board ? for the diagnostics as I only seem to have a 2 pin plug on my loom,

Also I took the cats off at the weekend now it runs like s++t on tick over and the MIL lights on all the time Ooooh I love this new ownership lol

Stu

[high52kojak]

Yeah the nine pin is for the diagnostic lead.
Did you move/touch the lambda sensors when you took the cats off?

[pat_y]

Yup, thats the puppy. standard serial lead plugs right into that socket, make sure you have quite a long cable though as you will need to be able to see the laptop when standing by the engine bay swearing and burning your fingers.

[exwinegtrr33]

Thanks chaps burn't fingers lol will maplins sell the cable ?
No did'nt touch the lamba's BUT I did think that it mite have something to do with them can i test/clean them ?

IT was allways a bit s++t on tick over and low revs, fine when opened up, MIL light would flicker sometimes with cats on
but stops on all the time now o well

stu

[high52kojak]

Get the cable and laptop software and see what is is saying for the lambdas. I think the maplin cable will work ok, if not some TVR parts places sell em. ( I had mine made at work) The drawing for the cable and the software are available on the Clever Trevor download site.

[jammy_basturd]

Just a standard serial to serial cable should be fine, if your laptop is old enough to have a serial port. Some members experience problems when using a serial-usb cable, though you can usually get around these by playing with the port settings.

ECU software is now here - http://www.thetvrsite.com/ecu-diagnostic-software
There is also a diagram for the cable on there too.