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Terrigal
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Re: has anyone experienced an autronic ECU
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Tue, 28 May 2002 04:12
 
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I've got an Autronic running on my 3T-GTE. Running a direct fire ignition also. Any questions just ask.
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Toowoomba
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May 2002
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Re: has anyone experienced an autronic ECU
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Tue, 28 May 2002 04:31
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how do you like it? Have you ever had any other ECU's and hows it compare? Cmon, give it a plug. I need a smooth running engine mainly for street work but i want some good power too, needs to be more efficient than my carbies.
Can you control everything from a handset in the car?
One last thing, what do they cost.
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gold coast
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May 2002
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Re: has anyone experienced an autronic ECU
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Tue, 28 May 2002 04:54
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Autronic FLOGS all those other ECU's!!!\
Autronic can Not be tuned with a handset. (laptop only)
A autronic SMC start at $1800 for loom and comp
An SM2 is more than $2500.
For what your talking Microtech, is the best of the bad bunch.
(Lately i know of 4 bad microtech units)
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Terrigal
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Re: has anyone experienced an autronic ECU
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Tue, 28 May 2002 05:05
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I am very happy with it. I previously ran a Haltech E6S and find the Autronic a lot better. It drives better than the stock ECU ever did.
It isn't as user friendly as the Haltech though.
It doesn't run off a handset. Tuned live via a notebook computer. You can control and monitor everything from here.
The Autronic itself is around $1800 i think. I also brought an MSD DIS-4 to run direct fire ignition, this was about $700. I could have brought some bosch ignitors but because I was running twin spark it was almost the same price. But for your application you probably just need the ignitor. These are around $150 i think new.
I brought 2 quad coil packs from Haltech. These were $180 for the lot.
But if you are keeping the dizzy then you don't need those.
If using the dizzy you would need a reluctor interface, I think these are around $140 or so.
If you are going with the distributor-less direct fire ignition then you need 2 hall effect sensors, with a crank trigger and reference pulse from the dizzy. These cost me around $120 each.
All up I paid $2700 approx. But this was for everything needed to run the distributor-less ignition.
Quite expensive, but definately worth it. Highly recommend the system. I have heard nothing but good reports about it.
It probably is one of the best ECU's on the market, Motec being the highest followed by Autronic, Haltech, etc.
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Melbourne
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May 2002
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Re: has anyone experienced an autronic ECU
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Tue, 28 May 2002 12:51
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Hi
Are their any good forums/discussion boards for the Autronic efi system?
What about autotune???? What is required?
regards,
Richard
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Terrigal
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May 2002
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Re: has anyone experienced an autronic ECU
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Tue, 28 May 2002 23:28
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All current Autronic ECU's support autotune now. I think anything after ver. 1.90? ... Might be wrong.
Anyhow. You need an A/F ratio meter that plugs into the 02 sensor input on the autronic. Then in the software you need to tell the autronic at what load/rpm points you want what mixture.
Then as you drive i guess the autronic gets feedback from the a/f ratio meter and adjusts the injector timing to obtain the mixture you want.
The tuner I used didn't use this feature. His opinion was autotune is fine for getting the car to a reasonable drivable state but can get more acurate mixtures by adjusting manually. Though with that said... I have heard a lot of good opinions about tuning only with autotune.
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I supported Toymods
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Perth
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May 2002
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Re: has anyone experienced an autronic ECU
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Wed, 29 May 2002 07:32
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I dont know crap, but if it was me I'd be using the auto tune lots, just driving around under as many conditions as I could, then after it has a good base, start fine tuning it.
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Terrigal
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May 2002
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Re: has anyone experienced an autronic ECU
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Wed, 29 May 2002 07:48
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Yeah i've heard that autotune will give a good base.
I actually got a cal file from someone else with a 3t-gte and similar setup to me and used this as a base. Though it was so rich it was a joke, knocked 50% off some of the injector timings.
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