Popping Sound On Aftermarket Exhaust

[66yostagea]

I thought to reset the stock ecu, dissconnect battery, pump the brakes to discharge any capacitors still holding charge through the brake lights, reconnect battery.

But I still fail to see what that actually accomplishes, I mean it doesnt store any data, does it?

It must store something? Otherwise it wouldn't do things. It must have a memory or something. How does it know wether u need to be lean or rich? It gets a signal and acts on it. It must have some data stored or able to store.

I read somewhere that modern cars have more computing power than the first lunar lander. True?

There are plenty of IT guys on the forum who could shed some light on this very vexing question.

There was a post not long ago about how to whatsie a new key. There must be SOME intelligence in the ECU to do that?

Can someone explain, please?

Edited August 9, 2006 by 66yostagea

[Ska]

It stores a fuel map, but if that was lost everytime the ecu lost power then you wouldnt be able to drive it once you got your first dead battery, it would need constant EEPROM flashing....

I meant that it does not store any volatile info, meaning that it does not keep info in memory that is cleared when power is dissconnected to it, and there is nothing you can "program" into it, to change anything you have to whack a chip into it, so what is the point of "clearing" the ecu when really it actually does nothing?

Not that it matters to me as I have a PFC, but would be good to get an answer on it I guess, might do some searching tonight as this has been discussed before on SAu so there has to be an answer for this somewhere

[66yostagea]

Cyrus,

I'll leave it in your carpetable hands. HeHeHe????WTF?

[GoldZilla]

dont you guys let other people drive your cars?

i dont really care, i mean, i wont let a dickhead drive it but ive let mates take it into the hills with me there

It's not that I don't let anyone drive it, but that I'm usually in the car as well when it is being driven by someone else - and that someone else is a person I trust implicitly!

The clutch is a ceramic button clutch, so it's heavy and very bitey - it's either in or out. My old man doesn't want to drive it because he has a bad left knee, and my sister is kinda scared to drive it because there's no play in the clutch and thinks it's a "big car" (even though she fairly regularly drives an EL Falcon wagon for work).

The other people I would let drive it, I just haven't had a chance to meet up with them for a drive yet.

[EGA41T]

The Autech front bars are a bitch, they sit very low (aftermarket sus doesnt help) and stick out a mile. Mines been off once for painting and is just about due again!

tell me about it, i put another small crack in it again tonight as i pulled into a driveway