Hacking/tuning the jeep ecm

[Alioth]

The SBEC2 in the pre-OBD2 4.0 HO also acts as a TCU and as a stone age body control module. You like your power door locks (y/n)? You have to retain it on some level, even if it does not control the engine any longer, or else rewire the entire vehicle. This means the odd 8v volt Chrysler triggering pattern needs to be retained, too, for AT vehicles. Transmission control is relatively straightforward if AT as the AW4 is the A340x in Toyota products (Supra/Taco) is whatever Volvo called their flavor of the Aisin-Warner slushbox. If push comes to shove, the AW4 is easily controlled... I don't have the link handy, but one guy on the Jeep forums set his up push button style a la Edsel. :P

B&G can tune the SBEC2, they have screenshots of Tunerpro on their website. Gut feeling says they took some of the turbo Dodge ECU knowledge, and were kicked info from one of the large tuning companies that decided not to pursue older vehicles. http://www.bgperformancepcm.com/

I'd like to tune the stock SBEC2, personally. The 411 PCM is also cool, but there's something elegant about not having to invent cam/crank pickups. MS1/MS2 is a your mileage may - and will - vary proposition.

[EagleMark]

Sure sounds like that Piggy Back tuner would take care of any engine mod tuning you need without all the other issues with tranmission and body control issues...

[JeepsAndGuns]

The SBEC2 in the pre-OBD2 4.0 HO also acts as a TCU and as a stone age body control module. You like your power door locks (y/n)? You have to retain it on some level, even if it does not control the engine any longer, or else rewire the entire vehicle. This means the odd 8v volt Chrysler triggering pattern needs to be retained, too, for AT vehicles. Transmission control is relatively straightforward if AT as the AW4 is the A340x in Toyota products (Supra/Taco) is whatever Volvo called their flavor of the Aisin-Warner slushbox. If push comes to shove, the AW4 is easily controlled... I don't have the link handy, but one guy on the Jeep forums set his up push button style a la Edsel. :P

B&G can tune the SBEC2, they have screenshots of Tunerpro on their website. Gut feeling says they took some of the turbo Dodge ECU knowledge, and were kicked info from one of the large tuning companies that decided not to pursue older vehicles. http://www.bgperformancepcm.com/

I'd like to tune the stock SBEC2, personally. The 411 PCM is also cool, but there's something elegant about not having to invent cam/crank pickups. MS1/MS2 is a your mileage may - and will - vary proposition.

This is in a soft top manual transmission jeep wrangler. It controlls nothing but the engine.
I have forgotten one thing. It also regulates the alternator. But that wouldnt be hard to bypass, as there are kits to convert it.
I too have come upon BG preformance while googleing. I shot off a nice lengthy email to them explaining my situation, and my desires, and asked if they had any options, or knew of any. That was monday, I have had no response. I have a feeling I wont get one. Mabey I should call.


Eaglemark, I have one of those cam sensors from the 99 and up 4.0. I picked it up at the pull a part for cheap. The engine I got it from was stripped to the block and the cylinders got rained in. That cam sensor was about the only thing left on it that was good. I got it and the wiring pigtail. Not really sure why I got it either, but I did. Its basicly a distributor cut in half and the sensor stuck on top. The stock 91 and up 4.0 dist has nothing in it but the rotor and 1x cam sensor. I can take a couple pics of mine if you want to see it. Sometime around 94 or 95, they changed it slightly, and moved the sensors location inside the dist to where it can be replaced without removeing the dist and removing the gear and shaft from the housing.
99 is when the 4.0 went DIS. Its also when they changed the intake manifold design. The 99 and up intakes are a popular swap onto older 4.0's for a slight power boost. I have one here but have just been too lazy to swap it on and see for myself.
I looked at the 7730 on ebay and it doesnt look anything like the 7427. The plugs are on the side, the memcal is in a diffrent spot, and there is a 3rd yellow plug. What goes there? The 7727 has 4 plugs. What defanition would I want to use, I saw like 3 or 4 on tunerpros webside. Were they ever used with DIS? And also, what datalog speed are they?

And last, I stumbled across this. Seems rather interesting.....
http://www.thirdgen.org/techboard/di...-ls1-pcms.html

[d0nk3y]

When I first started out in "industry", I worked for Mitsubishi on a joint project with Chrysler calibrating the Talon / Eclipse 2.0L A588 engines (circa model year 1996). We used an "Interrogator box" or "Ibox" to record data and interface with the SBEC in the cars. They wouldn't give us a PCM that was changeable "real-time" (and I cannot remember what the heck they called it, but the only external difference was one wire broke out of the ecu and it was connected to run one way and disconnected to make changes. IIRC, of course.

I used to have copies of the SBEC code and would make changes via hex editor and burning a new chip. The Ibox had two ZIF sockets - I'd put the new chip on the left and it would run the vehicle with my changes.... so there has to be a way. Give me some time, I'll check with my old coworkers to see if there is a way to do something. We were using the older SBEC controllers for sure, because the software guys on the project figured out a way to squeeze the additional OBDII code into the SBEC and saved the program millions of dollars not having to migrate to the SBECII.

[JeepsAndGuns]

Sounds nice. I am definately not having much luck on my research. But I have been kinda busy/distracted lately.
Definately keep me updated on what ya find out.
Getting the chip out wont be the problem, geting the info on the chip into a format I can understand is.

[Alioth]

I'm guessing BG never got back to you, huh?

[JeepsAndGuns]

Nope, never heard back from them. I havent called either, usally too busy during the day, and when I do have the time, I never think of it.

[JeepsAndGuns]

Taken from another thread on this site:

ALDL.ds files are available from vehicle manufactures so scan tools can be made to work.

So anyone know if one for my factory jeep ecm could be found and made to work with tunerpro? Would be nice if I could atleast scan and mabey datalog my stock ecm, just to see whats going on.