Daughterboard Socket

[BoostInnovations]

If i've read correctly you have to solder a socket into the ECU right? Well i have a bad ECU that was socketed and I need to get the different ECU socketed that is in my car right now. Is there anyway to reuse the socket in the bad ECU or do i have to find a new one?


Thanks,
Tony

[sr240mike]

Sr's use daughterboards not a socket. You can reuse the daughterboard if you have a lot of soldering experience. You will have to desolder the daughterboard, remove it. I use solder wick, the solder sucker I had never worked well enough. Then you will have to solder it into the new ecu and move the jumper wire on the ecu from j1 to j2. I would take it somewhere like a vcr/tv repair shop as they have all the equipment and know how. What kind of tuned ecu was it? Are you sure the ecu is fried?

[BoostInnovations]

yeah im definately gonna take it in...oh for some reason i thought it was a socket cause it looks like it has a female socket on the daughterboard...i havent opened up either ecu yet....the daughterboard is tuned for 550s and the Z32 maf...the guy i bought the car from said the ecu was bad...it kept the fuel pump on all the time and had some other little problems...so he stuck a new ECU in there and still has the z32 maf in there and it doesnt like it so much

[BoostInnovations]

ok so i just opened the "bad" ECU and it definately has a socket in it that would fit the daughterboard...it looks a ton like the IDE slot on a computer...the ECU is a #62 if that makes any difference. Also, there is a little dial of some kind that you can get at through the back of the ECU...dont know what that is because it is all in japanese...the board of the ECU says JECS if that matters at all either

[BillKlineVT]

Yes you can most likely have them re-use the socket. They use a socket on the mainboard to plug a ribbon cable into which then plugs into a socket on the daughterboard. All they have to do is desolder the socket on the fried board, take it out, and solder it into the new one.

[BoostInnovations]

alright thanks...im gonna check the good ecu as well and see if it has the socket already in it idk...i appreciate it