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You're kidding right? If I had the SMD solder /desolder station here I'd have done that. Then you have a fuel-cut-free ECU. No messing around cutting wires in the footwell. I suppose if you were using crimp connectors then it wouldn't be so bad.. I was soldering small connectors and heatshrinking them.

I think the lids were meant to stay on too! Bloody tight. The edges of my lid are a big chewed up now

SMD / SMT - Surface Mount Device/Technology.. it's that resistor below.. it's a surface mount one.. I tried desoldering it with a solder sucker but no go. SMD rework stations have hot-air soldering irons and vacuum suckers to get them off easily.

Honestly.. the MAP pin on the ECU comes straight into this resistor here (and yes, this is the correct pin this time!) http://www.sam-e.co.uk/ecu.jpg buy a cheap SMD rework station from eBay. Remove that resistor, and wire the green and blue wires from the VFCC to there. Fit an equivalent value resistor to that one inline with the blue wire, hook up the +ve and -ive where-ever those lines are, and you're away. If the fcd breaks, you just connect the other end of that resistor back to where you have the green wire.

It is. But I wasn't seeing fuel cut below 60mph anyway, so it's motorway instant-ban manoeuvres which have benefited the most

If I was doing it again, I would without question just remove that SMD resistor inside the ECU box and fit the thing inside.

Great stuff. VFCC fitted. There is quite a bit of acceleration to be had up there isn't there! It's only above 60mph where I was hitting fuel-cut anyway, but from my quick two-run test then, I found I was at 120mph before I knew it. I'd usually probably be about 15mph behind by this point having lifted off a bit. I found it quite hard *not* to lift off when the red light came on. It seems I've developed a pretty good reflex delayed-lift off thing

I'm narcotic free thankfully All working now

Okay, I've checked, and double-checked, and.. Yes.. I have cut the wrong wire for MAP For some stupid reason I thought the yellow blob at the end was not counted as a pin - I thought it was like an end-clip or something. I should have awoken my brain and noticed that they are all throughout the connector, where the pin is unused. So I have nicely heat-shrunk re-soldered the victimised wire back in place (the one next to MAP), and am continuing on.. It seems the VFCC lights-up Overboost when it's not receiving a MAP signal.

Well, I have disconnect the blue and green (MAP in & out) wires, so it just has power now, and right away the overboost light is lit, so I assume it must be faulty. I'll check the wires again.. perhaps it lights up red if there's no MAP signal at all coming in, in which case I would still have the red light with just power applied.

So mine is broken then. Bloody brilliant :grr:

Help! Just fitted the FCD, and as soon as the ignition is turned on, the Overboost light is lit, and I still hit fuel cut at 16.5 psi Event with the MAP disconnected from the FCD (i.e only power hooked up to it), the Overboost light is still on from the moment I turn the ignition. Is my unit likely faulty? Or does the overboost light double as a simple 'ON' light, and I need to adjust the fuel cut level or something?

That hollow-fibre carpet sure burns fast. Lucky I have a spare grey one in case I really screw up

Masseuse? I need a fuckin' threesome after that. I just dropped the HOT gas soldering iron under the seat.. and it was still burning, :grrr: Nearly had one less UK spec Supra to speak of. Anyhoo. Getting there...

Ah forget that then. My solder sucker is no good on that SMD crap. Wish I'd've bought one of those cheap SMD rework stations now while I was messing around with eeproms the other week. Onto the loom it is, in my litterbin footwell

yeah but that's not exactly tidy is it! I've just found out where the MAP pin comes to on the board, and I think I might desolder this resistor, and hook it up inline here. Surely that's a whole lot tidier? http://www.sam-e.co.uk/ecu.jpg

I give up. The FCD isn't going inside the ECU. It's going on the wiring loom side instead I don't fancy cutting the a leg of the main ECU connector

good greif. They really didn't want people messing around with these ECUs did they! Solder-filled screws inside, hardcore sticky stuff holding the casing on..

I'm reasonably handy with a soldering iron, and will be soldering the +ve and -ve directly inside the ECU, but I will use plugs/sockets to intercept the MAP. This way it will be possible to bypass the FCD by plugging the plugs directly into each other instead of through the VFCC. I'll show you in a minute when I've done.

Well I have leather interior, but not leather sun visors! That is black BTW.. flash makes the closer parts look too light but you can see from the rest of the roof lining that it's black. 94.5 I think .. M-reg.

http://www.sam-e.co.uk/visors/1.jpg http://www.sam-e.co.uk/visors/2.jpg

erm.. yeah. one sec. Leather?

I'm pretty sure mine are near-enough black. Shall I take a photo?

! films when stuck in traffic! You've gotta be having a laugh!! Leet it's quite easy but probably easier to get someone down the pub to do it for you. That's quite a bargain for a suitable PDA and included GPS receiver.

I know 400bhp would be an unreasonable expectation for my car, and I have always worked by a rough rule of thumb that for every PSI over stock, I am gaining ~10bhp, so my estimations are that on a good day I am making 370 - 380. Of course, I have not been making this power when I've needed it most against the Audis, but I was kind of hoping there might be a weight or drivetrain advantage. Unfortunately it looks like the new RS4 at least is 1650kgs, which is about the same as the Supra I think. Fortunately the RS4 loses out with its quattro system robbing power. Ah fack it. What am I to do. How much does a top set of Hybrids cost?