herbiemercman

Sorry Swampy i have only just received the answer to my question from Mike2JZ. Yes i can get the software from Link.

Hi Swampy, Syvecs supply FOC the software for your laptop so will this read the fault codes on the Links ECU's?

Hi Mike, The quote i got from Lee listed the ECU as: LInk Supra Link2JZ None VVTI.Plug and Play. He also listed a Bosch knock sensor for Syvecs/Link. I missed read this so i thought i was having a Syvecs ECU, i now know the LINK ECU's are very good, and made by them, not Syvecs. I need to know if the free software for my laptop that Syvecs offer will read the fault codes on the Link which i am having?

Andy Ven, The old Toyota ECU's are starting to fail, Keron at Extreme Performance told me the ECU's are failing a lot now they are over 20 years old, many sensors are the same, so if you want reliability and longevity, your best choice is an upgrade and remap, OK you are looking at circa £4K. and a 500 mile journey for me living in Preston Lancs, unfortunately SRD Tuning are in West Sussex 250 miles away, car transporter another £350. The good news should come from the reduction of stress due to having an engine with moderized ECU and the senders etc.

Thanks for the info guys. SRD Tuning, are recommending the Link in their quote, i thought this was manufactured by Syvecs? also they have the free software to download for your laptop and diagnostics fault code jobs?

Hi Mike, My mechanic friend said you need some software, you cannot just plug into a laptop and get all the fault codes from the Syvecs ECU? Could it be that the new ECU has the software required built into the ECU and feed this into the laptop?

Hi Mike, I used to get help and info from you many years back, you once told me you knew a good tuning company south of London, i am now on their waiting list for a ECU (Syvecs) and full supporting sensors etc. I did not want to pester Lee, so i asked the diagnostics question on our Club site. The waiting list could be end of August as well as there being a waiting list for the delivery of one of the key components. Thank you for your reply i never thought i would one day be visiting your tuning company. herbiemercman. ( Ian Jones). Preston Lancs.

If you have a "Syvecs" ECU upgrade with all new senders etc, am i right in thinking that the tuners will replace the old diagnostics multi pin socket,on top of the engine, with a new socket for measuring fault codes on the new upgrade, ECU set up? I am told that most garages now use EOB2 fault code machines for modern day cars? I also assume the tuners who have done your car will also supply the appropriate plug in socket?

Thank you mharvey for the info, i have also just got the same recomendations from Big Supes.

Hi Big Supes, Can you tell me how to contact Mike2JZ@SRD, i also do not know where he is located. Thank you for your help.

MODERN UPGRADE JOB: Does any of you have contact information for clued up Tuners who could fit me a new modern ECU without a piggy back, all new sensors/senders, and carry out a new full remap. All other items in the NAT conversion, like, exhaust system, the turbo, air cooler, oil cooler, all guages, AFR guage, oil temp gauge, boost gauge,etc.remain. Some of you have mentioned: "SYVECS", (mharvey). "AVILEC". (Dnk). Chris Wilson recommended Frazer MacKeller "MOTEC". I do not know Paul "Whiffbits" but some of you may think he would do the job? Any info you can give me will be well appreciated

Hi Tytson, thanks for your comments, you are certainly correct about intermittent faults. These cars were well before their time in looks and performance, but i think many of us are now "running out of time", the ECU's are on their way out, the engine senders are hard to find as are guys that can diagnose the problems.

Hi Guys, Thank you all for your help: Ric, Burna, rider, Scooter, Dnk, mharvey and BigSupes. Basically if i can get the funds together i know i need to update and replace the ECU and all its senders etc. meanwhile i have to fix the problem i have. I imported my car from Cork in Ireland in 1996, just 1,000 KM on the clock, it is a 2JZ GE. NA.model. 5 speed manual. The car has never missed a beat and in 2015 i had a NAT conversion at Rocket Dog Racing, (Craig Attard), in Cardiff, this gave me 450 BHP and the performance was fantastic. He used the Emanage Blue piggy back in partnership with the OEM standard ECU. I did not know at the time that none of the Mappers in the UK would get involved now due to the Emanage, this has been a problem for me especially in 2021 when i had to fit a new cylinder head gasket and a different exhaust system, i could not get the MAP checked. The over fueling problem which i now have, has been, and still is, a nightmare situation due to the problem being intermittent for several weeks, it was OK for a few days and then it would return, however in the past few days the problem returns now as soon as the engine gets up to temperature, from cold it starts perfectly and ticks over smoothly, then after 20 minutes it starts to reek of petrol, only running on three cylinders, black smoke, etc, bad over fueling. Due to the problem being heat related then the ECU, which is in a cool area i have eliminated. My investigations now are the senders, the MAP sensor, the throttle plenum air temperature senders, the coolant temperature sender to the ECU, not the camshaft and crank senders, inside the distributer body, this is because Keron (Extreme Performance) told me he has never known these fail on a 2JZ GE engine. Keron is going to let me have the senders i now need. I badly need some sort of Star diagnostics kit to help locate where i need to start looking and changing parts. Can any of you tell me where i might get one? I don't like the paper clip way with the flashing light method.

Just had a long chat with Chris he tells me that on an NA engine fitting a modern ECU is big bucks, circa £5,000 and another £1,000 for the mapping. You need different sensors, new wiring harness, etc, a big job and there are few tuners who will attempt the job.

Hi rider, I am with you on this for the upgrade ECU's, what kind of money are you talking? and where can i buy one?