Bad ECM

You will also need a carb and an intake - and some fuel system changes.

Not very original but might as well just drop a new engine in!!

8122pbrainard wrote: Not very original but might as well just drop a new engine in!!

You are probably getting pretty close to justifying an excal bobtail but in another 20 years you will need a new ecm for that one...

JoeinNY wrote: You are probably getting pretty close to justifying an excal bobtail but in another 20 years you will need a new ecm for that one...

Another 20 years I won't care anyway

Hi in the car industry there is a company called Cardone.    They can rebuild ECM modules for cars. It should not be to hard to send them a ECM to save the program from then they would have the program to download into a ECM after it has been repaired. If I get a chance I will investigate further. This should not be that hard of a problem to solve.

Well I think your partially correct Pete in that it's proprietary but if according to the PN guy they were able to read and record the programing. It does not seem that they can reprogram an ECM but they can add a chip to override whats in there. Here is a link to the "chip"

Hi just in case you did not see the other post. I talked to a Cardone representative today and they do not have this part number on file. But to get a broken one repaired. Take the ECM to a local Cardone dealer. They will send it to Cardone and once it gets to the Philadelphia repair center it should be a five day turn around. Once it is evaluated and repaired they will assign a Cardone part number to it and then anyone should be able to get one. I have used their repair service before with no problems. Hope this gets rid of some of the fears of owning a GT40 engine.

fgroce, I don't know at this time. I need to contact them and see what they have to offer. Thanks for the lead.

Mike9812121298 wrote: Check out Gt40ecm.com ecu's in stock ready to ship. These come plug and play no wire cutting or modifying. please ask for questions.

Where is this place?

Not much info on the website like a phone number so you could talk to a real person

Mike

A quick Google search tells me that you're the guy selling these, so why not be upfront about it in the first place?

Link to Ball of Spray where you're selling also.

See posts from Oct 19, 20 by Mike9812121298

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scootdogydog wrote: Mike's intentions confuse me. At a price of $650, vs the $113 on the PN page, what is the difference between the two methods, other than $537 more PN reprogrammed Maybe just time? If I had a GT40, I'd probably pick up a spare or two via the linked page and be set for a long time. IIRC, Mike came to the site asking for help, and he got it...Now he's trying to help (while making a big profit)

Scott,
Are you willing to take a chance at buying a used ECM off Ebay and then replacing the chip in hopes it would work?

8122pbrainard wrote: Scott, Are you willing to take a chance at buying a used ECM off Ebay and then replacing the chip in hopes it would work?

Curious Pete how often do you run across a bad automotive ECM? I gambled 75 bucks on one, it's fine. How much money will be spent on lottery tickets this week with the odds being much greater?

Gary S wrote: 8122pbrainard wrote: Scott, Are you willing to take a chance at buying a used ECM off Ebay and then replacing the chip in hopes it would work? Curious Pete how often do you run across a bad automotive ECM? I gambled 75 bucks on one, it's fine. How much money will be spent on lottery tickets this week with the odds being much greater?

Gary,
You are correct. Even though I did buy a Mega ticket last week, the chances are higher with getting a good ECM off Ebay!

You should read thru Mike's old posts here on CCF to get an idea how he does things

When i had a problem with my 95' at the start of last summer, there was no one online selling ecm's for the gt40. I had to do my homework, buy different ecm's off ebay and buy the programming equipment to get it up and running. If there was someone online that was just selling the ecm, i would have went that route to get my boat in the water faster. Im simply just trying to provide a service to make it easier on people that dont want to do the leg work. The ecu's on ebay that you have to use are starting to get into the 70-100 dollar range. The prices are going up. the chip you need for this also runs 85 dollars and that's not including the programmer and the adapter.

Each ecu i send out gets plugged into my gt40 to make sure everything took and it works like it should.