Hello,
My car (rover v8 on injection) recently went for a rolling road session.
we encountered a few niggles and ended up swapping out my ECU for one the garage had as a spare. My car produced more power with the other ECU.
The ECU the garage had was a TVR ECU. The one in mine started off as a standard Rover V8 ECU but then had a Tornado chip added.
http://www.tornadosystems.com/product/14-cux-tornado-chip-3-9-land-rover-and-range-rover/
I am wondering whether this means the Tornado chip is working/any good anyway? Or whether TVR fitted their own urgraded chip in their ECUs.
(i suppose the TVR could at some point have had an upgrade itself but the board didnt seem to show that to be the case)
just wondered
paul
Who did you go to?
Joolz at Kits and Classics in Chesterfield has a very good reputation for maping and TVR in general.
He can remap the Rover ECU. http://www.kitsandclassics.co.uk/
quote:
Originally posted by swanny
Hello,
My car (rover v8 on injection) recently went for a rolling road session.
we encountered a few niggles and ended up swapping out my ECU for one the garage had as a spare. My car produced more power with the other ECU.
The ECU the garage had was a TVR ECU. The one in mine started off as a standard Rover V8 ECU but then had a Tornado chip added.
http://www.tornadosystems.com/product/14-cux-tornado-chip-3-9-land-rover-and-range-rover/
I am wondering whether this means the Tornado chip is working/any good anyway? Or whether TVR fitted their own urgraded chip in their ECUs.
(i suppose the TVR could at some point have had an upgrade itself but the board didnt seem to show that to be the case)
just wondered
paul
Hi it was bailey performance.
The Tornado (Mark Adams) chips are highly rated and many of the owners report smoother running with no drive train shunt which can affect many TVRs
Worth a search on Pistonheads in the TVR forum
One thing though, there are several versions of the Tornado chip, You have got the right one ?
[Edited on 24/7/19 by perksy]
Assuming you have the 14cux ecu, there's so many different 'standard' Landrover, tvr and Mark Adams eproms to be found inside,
it's a minefield. Most have a label on them, even the Landrover eproms quite often have a 4 digit code on them. Many ecu's from
Rangerovers/Discoverys have the eprom soldered into the pcb, life is so much easier for experimenting if you unsolder it and fit a dil socket.
Ian
quote:
Originally posted by Oddified
Assuming you have the 14cux ecu, there's so many different 'standard' Landrover, tvr and Mark Adams eproms to be found inside, it's a minefield. Most have a label on them, even the Landrover eproms quite often have a 4 digit code on them. Many ecu's from Rangerovers/Discoverys have the eprom soldered into the pcb, life is so much easier for experimenting if you unsolder it and fit a dil socket.
Ian
