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Greddy = Trust They are the same company that uses a different name. HTH
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The GReddy can advance or retard ignition timing +-20 degrees.
It can increase injector pulse-width, but not decrease it.
It can adjust airflow based upon throttle position and rpm.
It can control the VTech point, has anti-stalling for turbocharged engines, and other stuff as well.
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For those of you installing bigger injectors and using the stock MAF I think you can adjust for the bigger injectors without changing the housing. A guy I work with has a volkswagon with similar MAF and he adjusted his with a pot when he installed his 30s. His car is running great with no problems. There is no reason why this wouldn't work on ours. Some one would just need to try it. You would need a OBD2 to watch it but it should work. I hope this might help some of us out.
Green 2000 SVT #1166 mods-K&N open air filter & Custom heat shield, Custom y pipe and 30 in resonator,DMD, arm rest heightened http://www.geocities.com/savinoss/Cars.html other cars-89 sable 197000 miles and still going-Wifes car 99 Mystique V6 5 spd
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Originally posted by svtavino:
For those of you installing bigger injectors and using the stock MAF I think you can adjust for the bigger injectors without changing the housing. A guy I work with has a volkswagon with similar MAF and he adjusted his with a pot when he installed his 30s. His car is running great with no problems. There is no reason why this wouldn't work on ours. Some one would just need to try it. You would need a OBD2 to watch it but it should work. I hope this might help some of us out. You can adjust a single adjustment point with a POT, that's it. All RPM's would be effected and hardly be ideal, but yes, it does work. The ProFlow Calibrator is two 1,000 position 1/2 throw loackable POTs with MAF connectors on it, just FYI.
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Ok,
I talked to the shop who sold me the GReddy eManage. He is going to warranty the device. Good and Bad. I am modded to the point that I can't drive well without the damn device! I am going to try and talk him into a swap, but he only has two. We'll see. I'd hate to be driving the 82 BMW for 2-3 weeks just for that.
If he does a swap for me, then I will plan on going to the dyno and tuning this beast next week. That is spring break and I really want to get all the features of the eManage working and tuned. I have some big butt dyno gains after my initial tuning of the unit, but that is just the airflow. I wonder what kind of gains I'm going to get when I get the ignition timing section working?
I'll update later.
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I swapped the GReddy device out and I will wait to see whether they will warranty it or try to charge me to fix it. I won't pay them a dime however since I found the chip that burnt at www.digikey.com for $0.69 each. I ordered four of them. Here is what happened: The chip in question has 7 transistor gates on it, six of which are meant to fire the ignition coils. The problem is that they are only capable of sinking 500 miliamps of current. Our coils on our engine are less than 5 ohms resistance, so they allow close to 10 amps! That was why the chip toasted immediately. Steve and I have put our collective brains together and come up with a simple and cheap solution that will enable us to use the GReddy to fire the ignition coils without burning anything up. We will use 3 high-current mosfets that will be activated by the GReddy unit and in turn will fire the coils. This will allow the full use of the ignition timing map and still protect the GReddy unit from destruction. I will schedule dyno time for next Thursday with Streetflight in Chandler AZ. This is the place making the Turbo kit. That is where I dyno'd my car last time, so I should be able to see just what kind of gains the GReddy can make for us. warmonger
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Unique Stuff: Sunroof control module (#1 of 9)
Car Audio: Loaded and loud!
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Hey Warmonger I have a question for ya, does the e-manage connect directly to the MAF?
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It connects the same way as the APEXi.
you just cut the signal wire, solder on some plugs, and then plug in the unit.
Very simple.
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Unique Stuff: Sunroof control module (#1 of 9)
Car Audio: Loaded and loud!
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Amazing, even though I have no idea at all what 90% of this means, big props to you for taking these risks (which apparently have paid off!) 
2000 Contour SE V6 ATX (White)
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Originally posted by warmonger: I swapped the GReddy device out and I will wait to see whether they will warranty it or try to charge me to fix it. I won't pay them a dime however since I found the chip that burnt at www.digikey.com for $0.69 each. I ordered four of them.
Here is what happened: The chip in question has 7 transistor gates on it, six of which are meant to fire the ignition coils. The problem is that they are only capable of sinking 500 miliamps of current. Our coils on our engine are less than 5 ohms resistance, so they allow close to 10 amps!
That was why the chip toasted immediately.
Steve and I have put our collective brains together and come up with a simple and cheap solution that will enable us to use the GReddy to fire the ignition coils without burning anything up. We will use 3 high-current mosfets that will be activated by the GReddy unit and in turn will fire the coils. This will allow the full use of the ignition timing map and still protect the GReddy unit from destruction.
I will schedule dyno time for next Thursday with Streetflight in Chandler AZ. This is the place making the Turbo kit. That is where I dyno'd my car last time, so I should be able to see just what kind of gains the GReddy can make for us.
warmongerDigikey is the shizz - if you can't find it there then it doesn't exist! Only problem with them is that they might make you make a minimum purchase. Although I doubt you'll find any problem finding $25 worth of stuff in there. The MosFETs are the way to go - that's exactly what is in the PCM for ignition firing. (I could tell a really long story about bum FETs in the PCM causing a few plants to build cars w/o PCMs until we could get them good ones.) If you are feeling especially adventurous, you could pull the cover off the PCM to find out exactly what is used, although it migh have a Ford P/N silkscreened on it instead of a manufacturer's part number. It's been a long time since I worked at good old Ford so I forget. Make sure you get some good heatsinks for them or you'll pop them like popcorn (but I bet you already know that). Better horsepower through electronics! Gotta love it.
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