Stagea

[T04GTR]

hi all. just a quick one, whers the atessa ecu located in a stagea.

or more importantly how do you extract fault codes from the 4wd system. is it a flash code from the atessa ecu or the dash light.

thanx in advance cheeres

[T04GTR]

COOL. no ones gona read it here

[Tangles]

  T04GTR said:

COOL. no ones gona read it here

OK - Im sure its in the rear qrt panel at the far left hand side of the boot, around the wheel arch area.

[CruiseLiner]

hey t04 gtr its in the cargo area at the back, on the passenger side behind the little compartment thing u can open up, its actually a fraction forward of that compartment. take the top window surround off, the compartment thing out, and they are all on clips mainly so beee careful they are brittle as hell. its screwed onto the metal frame and u will see the 100000 wires going to it when u remove the bottom floor panels.

and yes they have a fault code light on the ecu itself. its a bugger to get the ecu out to look though so have fun

ok heres a pic, the red arrow is where the ecu is mounted behind that panel, and he blue arrow is the ecu itself sitting out in the open.

second pic is the attessa ecu itself.

hope it helps

Brad

Edited April 20, 2006 by CruiseLiner

[GoldZilla]

Awesome info Brad!

Now to find out how to properly and effectively hardwire the ATTESSA - I can't remember if the info is yet to be posted, or if I've read it and just not understood or am able to recall how it's done... At least once that's sorted then we'll all be one step closer to the Power FC/RB25/Stagea solution that Mercury find it so secretive to give us...

(Does that make sense? I'm feeling really vague today.)

[AlexCim]

by hardwiring the ATESSA it means, the ecu does not have proper outputs for what the ATTESSA needs, therefore it is just spliced off another connection.

It was in another thread about funky asking about the gear ratios in stageas and him talking about stuff. Look through funky's "users threads" thing in his profile.

[T04GTR]

thanx brad, your a champ

[CruiseLiner]

ya all lucky i dont actually use my car to drive, but to learn and study the stagea designs in and out over and over and over, damn it gets annoying. i use my negatives to help others if i can

ive had every single thing disassembled from my stagea now and i mean everything!!!

engine, gearbox, suspension, diff, axles, sump, interior, attessa stuff, dash, seats, fuel system, fuel tank, etc etc.

one day ill actually drive it

[Duncan]

oh...so under the parcel shelf in the boot isn't right?

Why would you want to hardwire the ATTESA ECU? might as well just buy a mitsu legnum then

[GoldZilla]

  Duncan said:

Why would you want to hardwire the ATTESA ECU? might as well just buy a mitsu legnum then

Hardwiring the ATTESSA allows us to plug in an R33 PowerFC, seeing as there is no Stagea-specific PFC available. That way, we don't lose use of the ATTESSA, and we gain a computer option which is plug-and-play...

[Duncan]

ahh i see said the blind man!