mrhondadude wrote:
Why use a p28 when you already have a p30? Anyways, use a p30 rom in your p28. Your p28 in the pics does not have a knock board, so no it cannot support knock. It does support ho2s, and I believe eld. As for your soldier in the varnish, you usually strip all varnish from board before doing work on it, but you can wash it off now with brake clean and this will fix your problem. Your soldier work looks good by the way.
I just found out that my p30 ecu has some problems. after putting in p30 rom in the p28 ecu i noticed that the idle was better than my stock p30 ecu. Got me very curious as to why this is. So i inspected my ecu and found traces of electrolytic, seems like one of the capacitors is leaking. I didn't even noticed it until i used a cotton swab on the board. Tried to source the same capacitors locally. I just can't believe how hard it is to find the same capacitors for a jdm p30 ecu in our country. If it wasn't for the p28 ecu i would have used my p30 ecu until it got fried from the the leak.
I wasn't planning on touching the p30 for back up. Besides smd parts are not available in our country. Although i got some smd 74hc373 but i don't have the smd capacitor and resistor yet (don't know the value). I didn't really clean the varnish on the board i just used the soldering iron to clean up the splashes and then use a magnifying glass to check for short circuit. i was thinking if i strip the varnish i wouldn't have anyting to coat it with again for protection.
As for the eld i have enable eld from chrome and it seems to be working. You are right there is no knock board on the p28, but it seems like the jdm p30 knock board can be transplanted on the p28 although there is no place to screw the knock board on the p28 casing. I didn't know i had to choose transmission in chrome. I have used the car a couple of times and seems to drive better since the idle is much more stable. Il try to load the 203.bin in chrome again, do i choose b16 hydro tranny?
I was planning to getting an LM-2 is that any good ? or the lc-1 would be better ? The lc-1 is just a cable that connects to a comport on a computer right? I haven't made any changes on the stock 203.bin rom that i downloaded, i guess i would be using the p28 for a while until i am able to get capacitors fro my p30.
Do i need a data logger now to do some basic tuning ? or will a AFR be enough for now? Im a bit hesitant to buy all this stuff yet since i have zero experience on tuning.