question about ECU's and OBD-II
Posted: July 23rd, 2004, 10:36 am
here's my problem - I have a 96 GS and i would love to put a klde engine w. corresponding OBD-II ecu into my car to replace my K8.
as i am well aware very few people have done this and my research tells me that a lot of ecu's from 1996 cars that have the klde (626, PGT, MX-6) are the same part number (for ATX tranny).
Now I don't want to go through all the effort of dropping in the KLDE and swapping out the ecu if its not going to work. I want to be sure that the pin-outs and the wiring to the ecu for a 96 KLDE is the same as the 96 ecu that is currently running my K8.
so here's my question - to test the compatibility of the ecu from a 1996 626/PGT/MX-6, could i buy an ATX ecu from one of these cars and simply replace my existing ecu and see if it will run my K8 and my dashboard and all my sensors BEFORE swapping in the KLDE engine to be sure it will work?
or is this a stupid idea for doing a preliminary viability test of swappnig a KLDE into a 96 OBDII mx-3?
ianl? anyone want to comment on this?
thanks in advance
greg
as i am well aware very few people have done this and my research tells me that a lot of ecu's from 1996 cars that have the klde (626, PGT, MX-6) are the same part number (for ATX tranny).
Now I don't want to go through all the effort of dropping in the KLDE and swapping out the ecu if its not going to work. I want to be sure that the pin-outs and the wiring to the ecu for a 96 KLDE is the same as the 96 ecu that is currently running my K8.
so here's my question - to test the compatibility of the ecu from a 1996 626/PGT/MX-6, could i buy an ATX ecu from one of these cars and simply replace my existing ecu and see if it will run my K8 and my dashboard and all my sensors BEFORE swapping in the KLDE engine to be sure it will work?
or is this a stupid idea for doing a preliminary viability test of swappnig a KLDE into a 96 OBDII mx-3?
ianl? anyone want to comment on this?
thanks in advance
greg