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hello there,

Bought a '92 legacy wagon w/ manual tranny this summer. Previous
owner fried the ECU and couldnt find one from a legacy w/ man.
tranny. Since the first day i got it, i've experienced power problems
at low rpms when accelerating. Here is some details..
1. when idling, flooring it will cause the engine to accelerate
slowly 'til ~2k rpm then its okay.
2. Overall lack of power at low rpm, that means when starting from a
stop, starting on a hill..
3. "Newbie driver" feeling, like if i wasnt used to drive a stick.. I
mean by that the acceleration is not smooth.

I've put a layer of rubber between the engine and knock sensor so far
but havent reset my ECU yet.. i'll try this tommorow. But my biggest
concern is about this ECU that came from a legacy with an auto
tranny. I have the feeling this might cause some of the problems..
what does you guys think about it ? Before spending money to change
this and that, replacing with the right ecu cant be bad

Finally, I had a lot of difficulties to find a wagon with a stick.
Finding a ECU from a manual tranny is terribly hard to find here in
Québec, Canada. Does somebody have one that I could buy from ?

Thanks for your advices.
Martin


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I would suggest some of the junkyards or online places in the US. copartfinder.com may help

Josh

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-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Fillion [ mailto:mafil@globetrotter.net]
Sent: Sunday, September 02, 2001 9:39 PM
To: BC-BFLegacyWorks@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [BC-BFLegacyWorks] Wrong ECU ?


hello there,

Bought a '92 legacy wagon w/ manual tranny this summer. Previous
owner fried the ECU and couldnt find one from a legacy w/ man.
tranny. Since the first day i got it, i've experienced power problems
at low rpms when accelerating. Here is some details..
1. when idling, flooring it will cause the engine to accelerate
slowly 'til ~2k rpm then its okay.
2. Overall lack of power at low rpm, that means when starting from a
stop, starting on a hill..
3. "Newbie driver" feeling, like if i wasnt used to drive a stick.. I
mean by that the acceleration is not smooth.

I've put a layer of rubber between the engine and knock sensor so far
but havent reset my ECU yet.. i'll try this tommorow. But my biggest
concern is about this ECU that came from a legacy with an auto
tranny. I have the feeling this might cause some of the problems..
what does you guys think about it ? Before spending money to change
this and that, replacing with the right ecu cant be bad

Finally, I had a lot of difficulties to find a wagon with a stick.
Finding a ECU from a manual tranny is terribly hard to find here in
Québec, Canada. Does somebody have one that I could buy from ?

Thanks for your advices.
Martin


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I will have one available within a few days, In vancouver. This is
something that could be mailed fairly easy...
I have just put a EJ20t in my car and I am pulling out the old ECU from my
EJ22t
Do you have a turbo car?
Mark

At 02:38 AM 03/09/2001 +0000, you wrote:
>hello there,
>
>Bought a '92 legacy wagon w/ manual tranny this summer. Previous
>owner fried the ECU and couldnt find one from a legacy w/ man.
>tranny. Since the first day i got it, i've experienced power problems
>at low rpms when accelerating. Here is some details..
>1. when idling, flooring it will cause the engine to accelerate
>slowly 'til ~2k rpm then its okay.
>2. Overall lack of power at low rpm, that means when starting from a
>stop, starting on a hill..
>3. "Newbie driver" feeling, like if i wasnt used to drive a stick.. I
>mean by that the acceleration is not smooth.
>
>I've put a layer of rubber between the engine and knock sensor so far
>but havent reset my ECU yet.. i'll try this tommorow. But my biggest
>concern is about this ECU that came from a legacy with an auto
>tranny. I have the feeling this might cause some of the problems..
>what does you guys think about it ? Before spending money to change
>this and that, replacing with the right ecu cant be bad
>
>Finally, I had a lot of difficulties to find a wagon with a stick.
>Finding a ECU from a manual tranny is terribly hard to find here in
>Québec, Canada. Does somebody have one that I could buy from ?
>
>Thanks for your advices.
>Martin
>
>
>
>To unsubscribe from this group, please send an email to:
>BC-BFLegacyWorks-unsubscribe@egroups.com
>
>
>
>


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Umm... Yhea. I'd get a new ECU if I were you. I couldn't put my finger on
the part of the FHI manual that talks about it, but I'm almost sure they are
different. Lemme look some more...Yup I was right...

Section 2-7 (fuel injection system), Control Unit I/O Signal chart. For
those of you following along at home.

There's over a dozen signal differences and one whole terminal that's
different from the AT to the manual.

-=Sambo

-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Fillion [mailto:mafil@globetrotter.net]
Sent: Sunday, September 02, 2001 7:39 PM
To: BC-BFLegacyWorks@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [BC-BFLegacyWorks] Wrong ECU ?


hello there,

Bought a '92 legacy wagon w/ manual tranny this summer. Previous
owner fried the ECU and couldnt find one from a legacy w/ man.
tranny. Since the first day i got it, i've experienced power problems
at low rpms when accelerating. Here is some details..
1. when idling, flooring it will cause the engine to accelerate
slowly 'til ~2k rpm then its okay.
2. Overall lack of power at low rpm, that means when starting from a
stop, starting on a hill..
3. "Newbie driver" feeling, like if i wasnt used to drive a stick.. I
mean by that the acceleration is not smooth.

I've put a layer of rubber between the engine and knock sensor so far
but havent reset my ECU yet.. i'll try this tommorow. But my biggest
concern is about this ECU that came from a legacy with an auto
tranny. I have the feeling this might cause some of the problems..
what does you guys think about it ? Before spending money to change
this and that, replacing with the right ecu cant be bad

Finally, I had a lot of difficulties to find a wagon with a stick.
Finding a ECU from a manual tranny is terribly hard to find here in
Québec, Canada. Does somebody have one that I could buy from ?

Thanks for your advices.
Martin



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Hello Mark, thanks for your offer. My legacy is (unfortunatly) N/A. I
wish I could have found a 5 spd wagon awd turbo ! (does it exist ? )

With Sam's post about ecu differences, i'll definately try to find
one that is correct for my car. I don't know if '90 to '94 ECU are
exactly the same though...

Thanks for your help !:)

Martin

--- In BC-BFLegacyWorks@y..., Mark Ward <mark@r...> wrote:
> I will have one available within a few days, In vancouver. This is
> something that could be mailed fairly easy...
> I have just put a EJ20t in my car and I am pulling out the old ECU
from my
> EJ22t
> Do you have a turbo car?
> Mark
>
> At 02:38 AM 03/09/2001 +0000, you wrote:
> >hello there,
> >
> >Bought a '92 legacy wagon w/ manual tranny this summer. Previous
> >owner fried the ECU and couldnt find one from a legacy w/ man.
> >tranny. Since the first day i got it, i've experienced power
problems
> >at low rpms when accelerating. Here is some details..
> >1. when idling, flooring it will cause the engine to accelerate
> >slowly 'til ~2k rpm then its okay.
> >2. Overall lack of power at low rpm, that means when starting from
a
> >stop, starting on a hill..
> >3. "Newbie driver" feeling, like if i wasnt used to drive a
stick.. I
> >mean by that the acceleration is not smooth.
> >
> >I've put a layer of rubber between the engine and knock sensor so
far
> >but havent reset my ECU yet.. i'll try this tommorow. But my
biggest
> >concern is about this ECU that came from a legacy with an auto
> >tranny. I have the feeling this might cause some of the problems..
> >what does you guys think about it ? Before spending money to change
> >this and that, replacing with the right ecu cant be bad
> >
> >Finally, I had a lot of difficulties to find a wagon with a stick.
> >Finding a ECU from a manual tranny is terribly hard to find here in
> >Québec, Canada. Does somebody have one that I could buy from ?
> >
> >Thanks for your advices.
> >Martin
> >
> >
> >
> >To unsubscribe from this group, please send an email to:
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> >
> >
> >
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