Will a Auto ecu work on a Manual car thats been converted to auto?

sorry, i'm a little confused by the way the question is worded ....

it sounds like your car was manual but is now automatic ... does it have a mechanical shift mechanism in it such that there is no computer control of the shifting?

and do you have an EEC for a manual in there currently?

for what it's worth, mine is a manual that was converted to AOD, and i have an EEC for an automatic in there, and it seems to work fine.

:OT: on your combo, how high does that victor/elbow sit up compared to, say a typhoon intake, and would there be any chance to get it under a stock hood?

Yes, an auto PCM (U4P0, W4H0) can be reflashed as any other in the same family (J4J1, T4M0). Cannot flash a stick car to run an auto transmission though.

Wes

moneypit94 said:

Not sure what you mean "reflashed"?

I just want to throw a different ECU/PCM/ECM/computer, or any other name for it, in my car to make sure that my computer isn't the problem with my random tuning issues.

If it doesn't help I sell it back on ebay.

So which ones will work?

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Your chip will plug directly into any of the PCMs listed above and work properly.

Wes

Let me see if I understand this...

You have the power-glide "auto that acts as a manual" transmission, correct? And you are going to put an auto U4P0 ECU in it?

I think it will mess you up. Everything else being equal, the auto ECU is going to expect your "manual auto" transmission to shift. So, it will do all the things it does when the auto would normally shift at 5200 RPMs. Same thing it would do if there was a T5 bolted in there, I believe.

Now, I do not know precisely what the computer tells the car to do when it is time to shift, but I would assume if you changed the shift points out to like 8,000 RPMs (just someplace where it never enters its shift mode while you don't want it to shift), then you would be good to go. I am thinking that, for example, with the auto ECU, you have the car in 1 and you are tooling along, you can always shift it manually into 2, even before you hit the WOT shift point, right? But, what happens if you are at WOT in 1 and hit 5200 RPMs without shifting? I don't know, to be honest. But, I seem to recall that if you have a T5 and you hit that point where it wants to shift you get all sort of issues.

Just throwin' that out there...

awesome and yeah i hear you on finally getting a tune that keeps the car running! can be the most annoying and frustrating thing.