R32 Gtst Ecu

[cherring]

Yesterday evening I had my glovebox out and a lot of trim as I removing some old gauges and replacing them with new wiring and gauges, and in the process noticed that only had 2 screws holding in my ECU. As I am still discovering things about the car, my curiosity obviously kicked in and I took it down off the side of the interior of the car and had a look. A couple of the screws holding the lid on were stripped out a bit, so I took the top off and had a look. I don't know exactly what a stock rb20det ECU looks like inside, but I figured some of you guys here would, so here are some pics, what do you guys think? Stock? Modified in some way? The car performs roughly what I would expect a stock GTST to perform like.

Cheers

[GTSBoy]

Seems to have a burnt chip in there. I can't see a socket under the chip though, so a rather strange effort there.

[cherring]

Lots of things on this car have been strange. Will this still be Nistunable?

[GTSBoy]

It should be. Same process.

[QWK32]

looks stock to me. that daughter board connected by a ribbon cable is stock.

the chip labled, "R32 F-TYPE", is the rom chip that gets changed when the ecu is chipped. it is a little hard to tell with your pics but as mentioned above, if it has been chipped there will be a socket soldered to the board underneath that chip, and the 28pin chip will be plugged into that. When nistune is installed it is plugged into that socket replacing the rom chip.

[GTSBoy]

Yeah, except that the "daughterboard" connected by a ribbon cable isn't a daughterboard....it's the knock board. And the sticker on the chip is not what you see on stock ones.....which is why I said it looked like it had been chipped.....without a socket.

[DVS JEZ]

Correct, they dont normally hve that sticker on them. Post a pic of the other side of the r32 f type where the pins have been soldered. See if the solder looks factory or not.

[cherring]

About to head out ... will do that in the morning. So that chip would come out and the Nistune stuff go in there?

[DVS JEZ]

Yep