Will it work on the UK300 ?

[Matt H]

Hi guys,

Had an Impreza UK300 'bugeye' special edition in the other day. The Tactrix cable wouldn't read the ecu, but should it ?

The only strange thing is that this car had a Prodrive GEMS daughterboard installed inside the ECU. All this does is fools the map sensor so that you can run higher boost for a time period, but wondered if it would prevent the Tactrix cable\ECUFlash reading the ecu.

Should we be able to tune this car ?

It's one of these http://www.carfolio.com/specifications/ ... ?car=81620

[radsdau]

If it's a special, it's probably 'locked', i.e., the handshake protocol might have been modified. If that is the case, the Tactrix setup will not work.

[AndrewCarr]

Yes you should be able to map it, the MY01/02 PPP board only modifies the MAP and EGT signals.

If you couldn't read the ECU perhaps it already had an Ecutek ROM on it?

Andrew...

[Matt H]

You are spot on about the PPP board mate, just MAP and EGT.

Maybe I will try again with the Tactrix lead, I know connection is sometimes 'shakey'.

If it's locked then I guess it could be ECUTEK'd.

Thanks



Matt

[Matt H]

Had the car in again today, but couldn't connect at all. The ecu is a V3, isn't that off of the classic shape STis ? Very odd.