Emily's 04 VR SE

davekmoore · Postby **davekmoore** » Wed Jul 29, 2015 10:43 pm

Lokiel wrote:
davekmoore wrote:
emily_mx5 wrote:
ManiacLachy wrote:
emily_mx5 wrote:Standalone ECU: Haltech Elite 1500
Behold. The most expensive part on the car haha.
Comes with an adapter loom, which required a few changes to work perfectly. Still in prototype stages, however I have been offered a completed sealed loom when it is ready.

Emily, are you saying you have a prototype adapter loom for the E1500 to fit the SE? And that Haltech will be releasing a production version in time?

Yeah, there were several significant changes made to mine by Dann during the tuning. Haltech have recorded the changes, and I believe they will be selling a PnP loom loom/ecu soon

Thanks for this info. People may have seen some of the issues I had with a Haltech PS1000 on my SE. I'll now be talking to Haltech about why they left me high and dry whereas they've sorted issues for other people.

I'm betting it was a case of the installer doing a LOT of the legwork figuring out what was wrong/needed and a LOT of back and forth conversations with Haltech to sort it out.
The more information you can provide the better, Haltech (and most companies) just don't have the manpower to handle all configurations and figure out all issues so they typically target specific vehicles and models, especially for new ECUs - MX5s would not be considered a big enough market to make them a priority for ECU manufacturers so it's up to individuals to get them working.

Hmmm. Haltech and the installer both said they had plug and play kit specifically for an SE. They were wrong, by an enormous margin.

emily_mx5 · Postby **emily_mx5** » Thu Jul 30, 2015 10:17 am

Lokiels is 100% correct, none of this would be even close to possible without Danns countless hours of work making the necessary changes.
There are still some issues, I will be dropping it back to him soon for some tweaks.

Postby **NitroDann** » Thu Jul 30, 2015 1:53 pm

davekmoore wrote:
Hmmm. Haltech and the installer both said they had plug and play kit specifically for an SE. They were wrong, by an enormous margin.

The issues with the PS1000 were 2 wires in the wrong spot.

2.

If it caused a tonne of headache your tuner was lazy or uneducated.

davekmoore · Postby **davekmoore** » Thu Jul 30, 2015 8:49 pm

Both of the above, and got no help from Haltech. Didn't think the installer asked them properly so I prompted Haltech to contact him diplomatically. With hindsight I should have had him restore the car to standard and refund all the money after he'd spent the first two months failing to get it right.

ManiacLachy · Postby **ManiacLachy** » Fri Jul 31, 2015 7:53 am

Dave, you want a horror story, read this: http://forum.miata.net/vb/showthread.php?t=584542

But, back on topic: Emily, when are we going to hear more about the car? We're hanging in suspense over here!

Nevyn72 · Postby **Nevyn72** » Fri Jul 31, 2015 12:52 pm

ManiacLachy wrote:But, back on topic: Emily, when are we going to hear more about the car? We're hanging in suspense over here!

Just ask Roadrunner who saw her car not that long ago, she's so far behind on her updates it's ridiculous! :roll:

Lokiel · Postby **Lokiel** » Fri Jul 31, 2015 2:50 pm

It's now an Exocet?

Nevyn72 · Postby **Nevyn72** » Fri Jul 31, 2015 3:02 pm

Lokiel wrote:It's now an Exocet?

Well information is just about as rare! :mrgreen:

Roadrunner · Postby **Roadrunner** » Fri Jul 31, 2015 4:16 pm

Nevyn72 wrote:
ManiacLachy wrote:But, back on topic: Emily, when are we going to hear more about the car? We're hanging in suspense over here!

Just ask Roadrunner who saw her car not that long ago, she's so far behind on her updates it's ridiculous!

When NitroDann had his workshop about 48seconds away from my house, I saw it a bit

I won't spoil the story, I'll let Emily tell it in her own time. It's worth the wait :wink:

emily_mx5 · Postby **emily_mx5** » Fri Jul 31, 2015 6:35 pm

You guys got me, sneaky V8 Exocet coming up hahahaha.

davekmoore · Postby **davekmoore** » Fri Jul 31, 2015 8:18 pm

ManiacLachy wrote:Dave, you want a horror story, read this: http://forum.miata.net/vb/showthread.php?t=584542

Yup, these are about 75% of the issues I've had, except mine have been spread between half a dozen people who've let me down rather than just one. In my defence, it was because I ended up having to try to find one person who I could trust to do the work properly. In their defence ......... ......... nope, there's nothing to say in their defence.

emily_mx5 · Postby **emily_mx5** » Sat Aug 01, 2015 9:49 am

The damn alternator regulation is what is so hard with NBs. Takes a lot of tuner patience (thanks Dann

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Lokiel · Postby **Lokiel** » Sat Aug 01, 2015 10:06 am

Not surprised about the alternator hassles.

Alternator control has always been an issue with NBs; some guys even switched their NB alternators to NA alternators to work around this.

Adaptronic ECUs now have alternator input which makes tuning NBs a LOT easier - this caused me hours of grief with my Adaptronic Gen1 e440 ECU (piggyback version) that didn't have it vs the current generation e440 (standalone). For DIYers, IMO, this alone is worth choosing the Adaptronic ECU over other ECUs.