Emerald stand alone engine management system on a Z32 is now a viable and working reality.

All due to some research and experience by John Dixon following on from his successful installation of an Emerald system on his Nissan V8 engine. This also stems from my desire to move away from older generation fixed map ECUs and the neccessity of new chips with everything. So I bought all the gear with johns technical advice. John has made an adaptor loom which allows the use of the stock loom and ECU plug. He has also modified the Crank angle sensor(CAS) unit to accept a modified disc to allow the Emerald ECU to read it.

Today was test n try day!

First of all John helped identfy a couple of issues with the old stock loom/connectors which was stopping the engine firing. Once all was well on Nissan ECU we swapped over to the Emerald.

Almost immediatley it fired up:thumbup1: on a base map supplied. John then spent some time getting things running evenly and by 3 0clock today we had a fully running NA engine controlled by Emerald management.

I helped by making lots of coffee and bacon butties:lol:

 

To say I am happy is todays understatement.:nana2:

I will post up some pics when I tidy up the install.

 

No more MAFs for me!!!!

 

So its a huge thanks to John for a top job.:bow::bow:

Soon we hope to be able to market this as a true plug n play system.

 

I now have two choices. Get the stock engine fully mapped at Emerald on Dave Walkers rolling road and get the car finished and MOTd or proceed to install the new high power engine first and then get it mapped,MOTd etc

That's great John, I'll be in touch in the new year ;)

 

PS can the emerald dyno measure 600+bhp. Think I read it was setup for 300 but they've doubled it up to read up to 600

No prob, look forward to hearing from you.

Yeah, it will read max 600 on the wheels. You're right, it was a 300hp dyno but has had new brakes fitted etc. so now will do double that.