Got my engine rebuilt finally but my luck really sucks :(
 

well the engine went together smooth. i was quite proud of myself; first time ever really doing anything that in depth on a car; almost a full bottom end rebuild.

anyway everything mechanical went together smooth but my tach stopped working; actually it quit before i blew the engine but i thought it was a loose wire; well its not :-/ also my speedo cable snapped the fist time out with the fresh engine >:( And to top it all off my ------- EPROMER-5 is dead; it'll read 'proms but it won't write to ANY of my ------- FIFTY EPROMs. i spent HOURS today erasing them all with the UV but NONE of them will burn >:( I bought the programmer used and i emailed ustr.net and i'm really hoping they help me out but i'm not going to hold my breath.

so now i'm stuck with no tach; only my GPS as a speedo and a 4krpm rev limit (launch control; no VSS = ecu won't see anything over 8mph) and a broke ass programmer when all the nifty TE 2.11 ---- comes out :( someone hold me

Re:Got my engine rebuilt finally but my luck really sucks :(
 

Youch!

Re:Got my engine rebuilt finally but my luck really sucks :(
 

Just short out the heater circuit on your chip burner...it'll fix itself :P j/k man, tough luck!

Re:Got my engine rebuilt finally but my luck really sucks :(
 

hot damn; lol i guess if it works for the wideband it'll work for the epromer!

but wait...... no heater curciut >:(

Re:Got my engine rebuilt finally but my luck really sucks :(
 

OH SWEET MOTHER MARRY i finally got a chip to program!

omg how relieved am i! now to go out and do some driving!

Re:Got my engine rebuilt finally but my luck really sucks :(
 

how about you tell us how u got it to work huh?

Re:Got my engine rebuilt finally but my luck really sucks :(
 

beats me; i just kept messing with it and finally it burned a chip.

Re:Got my engine rebuilt finally but my luck really sucks :(
 

ComputerJLT, the master of trying to break things, but in the process getting them to work :P

Re:Got my engine rebuilt finally but my luck really sucks :(
 

haha speaking of which i got my tach working!
except i know exactly how it stopped working. Seems my wideband when turned off grounds the tach signal or something causing the dash tach to stop working. well today i got the wideband put in in its own bung (narrow band + wide band) so driving around with the wb on the tach was working :p now to just get a speedo cable and i'll be set