possible ecu reset?

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frank316
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possible ecu reset?

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Ok guys i'm new here but not new to hondas, always have used crome and was fed up with little quirks here and there so I jumped in and bought a s300. I have read a few things on here about people having problems with there ecu resetting, and am wondering if thats what i'm experiencing.

Car is a 1997 civic lx, p28 with s300 done by slowmotion motorsports in columbus. Car has a d16 y8, with a crower stage 2 all motor cam, vitara pistons, omni 4 bar precision 780 injectors. Has a turbonetics turbo and all that jazz.

The problem is that after you get it into boost/hit vtec/redline not exactly sure what is causing it, but after rippin on it and returning to vaccum it runs dead lean for about 10 15 seconds, misses, sputters, cuts out. after that it returns to its usual 13.5-14.5 and drives fine.

Today I got a log of it doing it, but the weird thing is, is that right around 5800(my vtec crossover) it stops logging and disconnects from the ecu, i looked down at the laptop, after a few seconds the computer made the noise it does when it detects a usb conection and the little icon popped up saying that the ecu was connected.

As far as i could tell i couldn't see anything in the log that said anything was out of wack, i was in 3rd gear about 75mph 18lbs of boost then it just quits, I am running smanager version 1.4.7.0. And i realize the tunes pretty rough i've only had it since yesterday so i'm just getting it roughed in haven't did much fine tuning yet. thanks for any insight you guys can provide!

Ben
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Post by Spunkster »

That is not the ECU resetting, it is interference most likely caused by the ignition system. We recommend a OEM distributor, cap and wires. Aftermarket ignition systems tend to generate a large amount if interference.

The rich condition is probably tuning related.
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