ReWiring Car (With Smartlock)

[Grechie]

Hey guys,

At the moment my cars all wired up with 1992 non smartlock EBII wiring, we are going to strip a EBII 1993 smartlock car of its wiring (engine bay and dash) wiring so i can have smartlock in my car, i have one question though, we will be taking EVERYTHING of the wiring, and replacing my wiring, so i was wondering what has to be done to START the car once ive replaced all the wiring to smartlock, as wont smartlock be a B!@$# when i first try to start it? and be embolized or something??

and also, can i use for the time being a EA 3.9L MPFI ManuaL ECU (obviously isnt a smartlock ECU) with the smartlock wiring till i get a XR6 ECU?

Any comments would be appriciated

thanks

- Grechie

[NZ]

If you use the ignition switch from the car that you get the module from it should start straight away. Your car wont have a smartlock ignition switch in it. You can also swap the barrels over so you can use the orginal key as well. good luck

[Grechie]

thanks NZ, so if i use the same ignition barrel it should start straight away, i dont really care bout the central locking and all, i just want it to have smartlock so in future i can get a XR6 manual ECU for it,

also i was wondering if the EA Manual ecu would work if i got the smartlock wiring?, i no smartlock talks to the ecu to see if its smartlock then starts, but if its smartlock wiring to non smartlock ecu would it matter?

[niko]

dude if your gonna do this, get a ghia loom. ;)

[Grechie]

Originally Posted by niko

dude if your gonna do this, get a ghia loom. ;)

explain why?

[-jjM-]

coz ghia is better;)lol

[niko]

coz ghia has every possible wire.

better to have more wires than less. means if u ever want to add on an extra feature the wires are already there.

[InitialD]

Nick your right on the money.

if your going to rewire the whole car to suit smartlock (well basicly the dash loom :P), you might aswell go Ghia and get

Trip computer
Climate control
Cruise control (just need the bits for it ;))
and Ghia interior lighting options allready for you. Just saves adding the wiring later on and having some spag' of wires.

I was under the impression that you couldnt use a EA ECU in a EB2/ED/EF/EL wiring setup. But you learn something every day ;)

[Grechie]

alright ill try and get the wiring loom from a Fairmont Ghia...

Originally Posted by InitialD

I was under the impression that you couldnt use a EA ECU in a EB2/ED/EF/EL wiring setup. But you learn something every day ;)

so youve tried a EA ECU in a smartlock and it works?

[NZ]

an ea ecu will run fine with smartlock. The other thing you could do is extract the smartlock wiring from a dash loom and overlay it to the loom you already have. thats what i did on my car when i added it. if you want the loom i can easily rip it off as all my old looms are sitting in the shed. Either way the dash has to come out

[InitialD]

Originally Posted by NZ

an ea ecu will run fine with smartlock. The other thing you could do is extract the smartlock wiring from a dash loom and overlay it to the loom you already have. thats what i did on my car when i added it. if you want the loom i can easily rip it off as all my old looms are sitting in the shed. Either way the dash has to come out

ok if a EA ECU works in a EB2 setup, why wouldnt a EB2 Non smartlock ECU work in a EA?

I tried this a few times and the car barely ran

[NZ]

Because its just your car mick!

I used an eb2 non smartlock auto (!) ecu in my ea manual for ages. went fine till i hooked up the isc then the Variable Idle™ gave me the ИИИИs.

[InitialD]

Originally Posted by NZ

Because its just your car mick!

I used an eb2 non smartlock auto (!) ecu in my ea manual for ages. went fine till i hooked up the isc then the Variable Idle™ gave me the ИИИИs.

LOL yes it did have a EA CFI loom at the time, or the ECU could have been a dud (what did you do with that ECU Spopie? : )

[Grechie]

NZ, hanks i would be interested , but im after all the wiring even underbonnet as my loom atm has got a bypass wire going from someonewere in the loom to the TFI to give it power (bodgy i know) but thats the only way we could start my car wen we did this becuase there was a after market alarm in there and the wire was cut, n now i just want a whole new wiring loom with no alarm/embolizer wires so nothign looks body

[niko]

how did i manage to get an ea GL with multipoint? last 3 ea gl's ive had were multipoint