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Re: How to engineer an aftermarket ecu on a road car? Sat, 20 November 2004 11:34 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
My step dad is building a fairly impressive conformadore, 6.3L supercharged. The engineer will pass all of his mods engine, transmission, blower, brakes etc but wont pass the haltech ECU.

Realistically any computer that has been custom tuned (properly) will pass emissions as well as a mass produced factory computer will.

As far as I know a lot of guys with commondoors are hiding the aftermarket ECU and leaving the stock one with a dummy loom. The RTA are aware of this little trick. I've heard if they suspect it they will unplug the dummy loom and see if your car still starts (which it will). The workaround is to earth your aftermarket ECU through the dummy loom of the factory ECU. So when the RTA inspector unplugs your dummy ECU loom the earth for the aftermarket ECU is unplugged aswell.

hope that helps someone.
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