Question: What are the Neutral Button functions on Gearchange system? Answer: You must fit a Neutral Button, otherwise the ECU will not know when you want Neutral. The Neutral Button does two basic jobs :- 1 – Select Neutral. 2 – Selecting a gear if no ‘Clutch Switch’ is fitted. If a clutch switch is […]
Question: What are the reasons for Clutch & Launch switches? Answer: Clutch Switch is for sensing pressure on the Clutch pedal. This effectively allows the ECU to sense that the driver has rested his foot on the clutch and potentially disengaging the clutch mechanism. This allows the ECU to do two things, prevents the gearbox […]
Question: Do you have a piston for a 2.0L Duratec with a 89mm bore? Answer: We only manufacture two piston sizes for the 2.0/2.3L Duratec. We produce either 87.50mm to replace the standard piston in a standard bore or 88.00mm piston so the bore can be cleaned + 0.50mm oversize. The reason we do this […]
Question: Are you able to confirm that I could use the spare wire (i.e. gear change light) to connect to a relay to allow the cooling fan to” run on” after the engine has been switched off? Answer: Yes, you can use the gear shift light output for rad fan control. You would simply use […]
Question: I have a serial based MBE system currently on my engine, which I understand is out of date now. Which system should I use now and can the existing wiring loom be used with the new ECU? Answer: The current type of ECU is the CAN based MBE9A* series, if you look on the […]
Question: I have a Caterham with a Cosworth engine, is there anything special about this calibration with respect to TPS, as it relates to voltage sweep? Answer: For some reason, Cosworth in their wisdom decided to wire their throttle position sensors backwards. The voltage actually descends as the throttle is open instead of increasing. MBE […]
SBD taper throttle body kits are made up from 4 single bodies (on a 4 cylinder engine) which taper from the ram pipe end down to the manifold face, with a butterfly in the middle. the taper then continues on through our inlet manifolds to the cylinder head. The main advantages of using a tapered […]
Question: I have just bought a standard XE engine and I want to tune the engine further as time & funds allow. Would you recommend for my initial spec carbs or injection? Answer: I would always recommend fuel injection over carbs. For example you are looking for between 180 – 200bhp, whereas a standard XE […]
Question: What can I do for gearbox control, there are a lot of products on the market and it is very confusing? I will give you a little bit more information on the gear change systems and how they work, then hopefully this will give you an idea of what can be done and what […]
Question :Is it possible to configure your own CAN bus messages to be sent out on the CAN interface on the MBE 9A9 ECU? Is it capable of receiving CAN messages and acting on them? Answer :The CAN Bus data stream is designed for use to transmit data to either external devices, such as data […]
