I was thinking about this the other day and wanted to see what people thought.

I would think it wouldn't be that hard really.

Find a decent processor, write the program in assembly.

I guess what I am really wondering is what is really inside an ECU. Obviously a central processor (like a MIPS type chip I would think), input and output, but other than that can't be much else. couple megs of ram/rom maybe.

Ideas?

 

Honda did so many research, it's not easy to achieve that level.
The hardware is not the problem. It's the software!!!

 

A friend at work showed me a link to something called "Big Squirt" or something like that.

Come on!
If you were an EE hobyist and nobody made an electronic/computer controlled fuel injection system for your car, then maybe.
But with all that's available now in virtually plug-and-play condition, ... get real!


[Modified by Zygspeed, 10:44 AM 6/19/2002]

 

Yeah, but if you did it yourself, you could make it work with a laptop to fire your nawwwwsss

 

Nintendo

 

I'll donate $100 to anyone that gets their car running on a stock Nintendo with orignal parts inside.

 

yeah, but the old style NES system.

 

How about if I get a car to "run" using my old/ancient T1000SE!

Do I get a cookie?

 

We have a dozen Apple IIc's that you can have for your "engine management system"... let me know if you want it. Maybe you can run a parrallel setup.

 

We can network them all together!