So who wants their ECU's "Chromed"?

**Greg E** · 05-02-2012, 04:33 PM

Originally Posted by Jesters Deadd

Boy! I can't wait for Chrome 2.0!

Me neither!!

**vroom4** · 05-02-2012, 04:55 PM

Originally Posted by Jesters Deadd

I hope it doesn't come across that way.

Its not real engineering to reverse these circuits anyway.

Dont kid yourself. Its very much so engineering.

**95gto** · 05-02-2012, 05:05 PM

My only hope is that those modding/cloning the ecu's are not ignoring the very nature of surface mount components and their reduced life expectancy related to multiple soldering and de-soldering.

**BigTyla** · 05-02-2012, 05:24 PM

Originally Posted by Jesters Deadd

I hope it doesn't come across that way.

Its not real engineering to reverse these circuits anyway.

You're being humble. Reverse engineering is very much a field in itself. I would never deride these types of jobs by saying they aren't "real engineering" jobs.

**FeaRpb** · 05-02-2012, 05:38 PM

Keep up the good work guys.

**Jesters Deadd** · 05-02-2012, 06:27 PM

Originally Posted by 95gto

My only hope is that those modding/cloning the ecu's are not ignoring the very nature of surface mount components and their reduced life expectancy related to multiple soldering and de-soldering.

Or thats these ECUs are going on 15 years old!

**ChargerX3** · 05-03-2012, 12:04 AM

Ive just got to say Adam is dedicated. I started to make a VR4 ECU a little while back out of a Diamante. Its nothing fun to work on...especially if you have a daytime job. Maybe one day i will want to come home an hunch over my ecu to solder on the rest of the components...maybe not.

**95gto** · 05-03-2012, 10:45 AM

Originally Posted by Jesters Deadd

Or thats these ECUs are going on 15 years old!

Precisely the point. The only thing worse than an old product is an old product made more fragile.

**aaronatstate** · 05-03-2012, 12:53 PM

Originally Posted by 95gto

Precisely the point. The only thing worse than an old product is an old product made more fragile.

I had ~20,000 miles over 1.5 years on the ORIGINAL converted Montero ECU. We used de-soldered and resoldered surface mount parts from spare computer boards Jeff had lying around the house. My car is still running just fine now, on a converted Montero Sport ECU with desoldered and resoldered parts.

Well I agree its not a good idea to reuse parts a bunch of times, I dont see it being a problem to swap them over from one board to another once for the conversion, as long as you are careful to not put to much heat into the parts, that's the biggest issue with resoldering parts.