GLX-R Alex wrote:
I believe it tricks the ecu with the air box temp sensor that it is actually low temperature and the EGR never functions.
What advice? Buy an adapter loom with the same resistor in it instead of paying 45c ?
How much do you recommend?
There is nothing rough about it. Are you an electrical engineer?
I suppose I can just step down in resistance until the EGR becomes active again. I thought the idea was to keep it shut? The current value does the job.
Look I've had just about enough of this.
The suggestion that the commercial version of this is the same resistor is just bullshit. Not true. 100% false. You should withdraw that immediately.
Secondly, the thread title is equally misleading. Full test? Right. You mean your engine didn't blow up. Since I've mentioned the title since when is that how you spell installation?
How much do I recommend? Not my role to tell you how to do it properly. Or reveal the results of someone else's proper testing.
As to roughness - I'd be that rough on a speaker connection maybe but on an important engine sensor connection subject to constant heat and vibration? One layer of heat shrink may turn out to be enough. Who knows? If you'd actually read all of Koshari's posts on it, including the recent discussions you would have seen that he re-inforced his setup better than that. I'm not going to describe how because I actually think it is very important that you go back and read the whole thing. Which you obviously didn't. The commercial version is also reinforced with more than a single layer of heat shrink but again it's not my role to spell it out.
The idea is to keep it shut and this will do it (on an ML) but I would have thought that if you were going to feed false values to an important sensor in a complicated machine your goal might be to feed it the least false value that will achieve that goal.
Now I mentioned above that it was not my role to fix your work, and that's true.
What I do think is my role though is to try and protect people on the forum generally from misinformation and/or mods that might have issues with them or whatever. So where mods are illegal for example you'll often see some comments added about that.
The little caveat:
Carry out at your own risk.
Sharing is caring.
just doesn't quite do it for me I'm afraid.
If you'd read all of the discussion after Koshari's original posts you'd have seen it had already been said that a lower value resistor would do the job. You'd also have seen what Koshari did with his to make it a bit stronger. You might even have seen that there is a better spot (imho) back towards the back of the airbox to tuck things away. And you might also understand that it's possible to design one of these mods so that you can switch it on and off - say for dealer services or diagnostic purposes.
So clearly I've failed on this occasion because all of that discussion was to prevent someone doing what you've done - just whack it in without even understanding to any real extent how it works. You've said what you believe it does (and you're probably right) but to me that means you didn't 'know' for certain what it does but you went ahead and took the risk anyway.
And then to compound things, even after koshari backed away from it a bit and said look I'm not saying everyone should go out and do it just because I did it and it worked for me, you've basically posted up a whole thread suggesting that everyone should go ahead and do it because you did it.
Now obviously everyone can take their own views on this stuff and everyone will. I've said before I am a strong believer in the product out there which is doing this job and I can see how some might think I'm hopelessly conflicted and that this is me trying (again) to protect Tony's sales. But I'll say yet again that it's not about that at all - although if people who don't know one way or the other are going to start spreading bullshit about it then I will be all over that like I would any other rank dishonesty. Nevertheless it's one of the difficult tasks which befall forum moderators that they have to try and be fair and balanced and I'd like to think I'm about as fair as they come. God knows I try.
In this case I'm calling it like I see it. You've copied someone else's idea, not executed it as well as the original, sledged another product you know nothing about and basically misled people about it, and you've then gone and advertised the whole thing for the rest of the world to copy. That's about as far away from ideal as I'm prepared to tolerate frankly.
I haven't taken the step of locking the thread or removing it at this stage but if it degenerates any further then that is what will happen. If it has to stay up I really think you need to go back and whack some bigger disclaimers in because history suggests that no one is going to get all the way down to this post and bother to read it and understand it. And you need to go back and correct your false statement that I've mentioned about 3 times now.