Do L8 ECU's come with a piggy back board or is it an bolt on extra? Doe's the chip fit straight onto the board or doe's it need the piggy back board?

cheers

 

yes they have a std ford board.

and some are chaged to pectel boards, so you need to know what you have and what method of encryption your chip is written for

ie, if you put s a std ford encrypted chip into a pectel board it wont work, and vice versa

 

all l8s need a board. there are basically 2 types of board though, std and encrypted (most commonly using the pectel protocol). the chip needs to match the board.

 

Ok cheers where the best place to get a standard board from and roughly how much are they? cheers

 

goodluck! try an rs breaker...

 

Edited with the info you missed

 

nice one geez

 

hard to get hold of then?

 

can be

 

typical, let the search begin, how much do you think?

 

I actually have one i'd part with, only thing is it needs a new blue connector as some gimp (me) broke a couple of pins off in a fit of mongness one day

 

how hard would it be to sort that mate? cheers

 

learn something new i always thought the pectels boards could read both

 

If you can get another connector, very easy, it just pushes on over the ribbon cable, no tools required.

I've kept meaning to get a run to somewhere like maplins to see if they've got them in stock, keep forgetting though!