1997 vs 2002 VR-4 ECUs

[Turbo_Steve]

There....better? Got a firefox translation plugin that seems to mess up copy + paste.

[Nutter_John]

Thats more like it , you can normally find em for sale on ebay.jp

Think i priced it once as around 600 quid + an ecu to send to em , problem is there maps are for 100 ron fuel only so unless there is a little give n take on the map we may be more exposed to the limits or our fuel

[evo1]

Does anyone know if an evo4 ecu is compatible with any legnums?? only im thinking of swapping out of my evo1 to a legnum and would take the ecu with me

[Wodjno]

Does anyone know if an evo4 ecu is compatible with any legnums??

i wouldn't have thought so .. The connectors are probably the same.. But the pinouts will be different..

And the main difference is EVO been 4cyl and VR4 6cyl...

[bradc]

You have an Autronic ECU though, so you could in fact set it up for a VR-4?

What model do you have exactly?

[evo1]

Just found out it wont.

[Hotwire]

Question for the CAPS guru's:
The two ECU's in the first post here are
MD340288 (pre-facelift ECU) and MR578135 (facelift)
I have seen a plastic case (facelift) Galant ECU with MD340288 on it, and a number of ECU's with MD340289. My ECU from my prefaclift legnum is MD340289 and the ECU that was with an Auto pre-facelift galant package I bought was also MD340289.

Can someone search the CAPS database to see what cars the following part numbers line up to, I have a feeling they are:
MD340288 - Manual ECU EC5W/EC5A
MD340289 - Auto ECU EC5W/EC5A
MR578135 - No idea

Cheers!

[peter thomson]

Question for the CAPS guru's:
The two ECU's in the first post here are
MD340288 (pre-facelift ECU) and MR578135 (facelift)
I have seen a plastic case (facelift) Galant ECU with MD340288 on it, and a number of ECU's with MD340289. My ECU from my prefaclift legnum is MD340289 and the ECU that was with an Auto pre-facelift galant package I bought was also MD340289.

Can someone search the CAPS database to see what cars the following part numbers line up to, I have a feeling they are:
MD340288 - Manual ECU EC5W/EC5A
MD340289 - Auto ECU EC5W/EC5A
MR578135 - No idea

Cheers!

They are all manual ecu's

[Hotwire]

Really? that's odd, my car is a 1997 "Car of The Year" model legnum which only ever left the factory in Auto guise, and has MD340289.. sure it's a manual ECU?

[peter thomson]

Really? that's odd, my car is a 1997 "Car of The Year" model legnum which only ever left the factory in Auto guise, and has MD340289.. sure it's a manual ECU?

MD340791 is listed as the only AT specific ecu. All the rest are for the manual transmission but I suppose that dosen't mean they were not used in AT and MT models. Kieran may be able to be more specific as there are a few more MT ecu's listed though they may relate to the STR as Brad said they share the same EC5W chassiss numbers from what I remember in another post

[Hotwire]

OK - if I provided my chassis number via PM, would that help identify if it is the orignal Auto ECU part#?

[peter thomson]

OK - if I provided my chassis number via PM, would that help identify if it is the orignal Auto ECU part#?

yes can do

[peter thomson]

When I check my chassiss number though it comes up as MD340289 . It dosent really make much sense then as when you look at ecus for any Legnums it says it is a manual one.

[Hotwire]

ok, well as your car is pre-faclift auto as well that doesnt make much sense as they were only 260ps not 280ps.... trying to find a part # that corresponds to a 1998/1999 facelift ECU as I'm trying to source an ECU with the MH7202 chip

[Hotwire]

hrmm, well I know someone with a manual pre-facelift and have asking him for the ECU part # for his car, just need to find out facelift auto and manual part numbers

Cheers for the help Peter

[Hotwire]

Did some asking around on OzVR4.com for peoples chassis numbers, and also got a friend with CAPS to do some research, and from what I can tell, these are the part #'s for ECU's
Pre-Facelift AUTO - MD340289 (1997 model)
Pre-Facelift MANUAL- MD340288 (1996 model)
Facelift AUTO - MR578137 (2001 model)
Facelift MANUAL- MR578135 (unsure of year)

I would like to hear from anyone with a 1998 or 1999 facelift in both manual and auto to see if the part numbers match up.

Cheers
Lee

[Nutter_John]

i will check the 1998 manual ecu i have for the part number

[scocia]

Just so the info is in two places:

I have a 99 Auto with part number MD362895. With the 702F ECU chip.

Gents we could be onto a great thing here! Once the Russian bloke ( sorry I can't remember his name) gets back to us about the software used to flash the ECUs, certain people will be able to flash pre-tuned roms onto their ecu and then tune away on free software without the need for an aftermarket ECU.

This is a pretty massive step from the " Can't flash any of them, have to spend $$$$ for aftermarket gear." line that I always read when looking into it.

Thank you to all the Russian members for all the great work so far, hopefully a global community will create some great resources for us all!