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Omega General Help / Re: Stolen 3.2 estate
« on: 04 March 2024, 12:48:04 »
A bugger to hear that. Was the key taken as well then?
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General Car Chat / Re: New EU directive – no old car repairs?
« on: 09 February 2024, 12:19:18 »I switched off as soon as he started talking about clouds and vapour trails...
Oh he didn't, did he...?
I must've skipped through that bit, bored at how slow he read out what was on the screen, with added exclamational facial movements 
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Omega Gallery / Re: Omega B2 3.0 V6 Executive from scrap to sunshine
« on: 07 February 2024, 13:00:59 »
Nicely done, and it's cleaned up really well ... 
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Omega Electrical and Audio Help / Re: Wots this plug for?
« on: 07 February 2024, 11:39:31 »... have a large box full of all the "unnecessary" wires, switches and relays not needed ...
I've got similar boxes...
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Omega Electrical and Audio Help / Re: Wots this plug for?
« on: 06 February 2024, 14:49:45 »
The good Doctor is, of course, quicker and more correcter However, as I'd taken a pic out in the garage anyway, here it is for anyone who happens upon this in a Search some time down the line, with the two oxygen sensors being the only other thing on that stub of the V6 loom...
However, as I'd taken a pic out in the garage anyway, here it is for anyone who happens upon this in a Search some time down the line, with the two oxygen sensors being the only other thing on that stub of the V6 loom...
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Omega Electrical and Audio Help / Re: Wots this plug for?
« on: 05 February 2024, 21:05:05 »
Nope, the ECU isn't bothered whether venting the carbon cannister actually did anything. That said, in my mind, the connector for that solenoid is away from the Lambdas. I can go look in the garage tomorrow and see what else is down there...
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General Car Chat / Re: do we have any jetronic LE2 experts please ?
« on: 22 January 2024, 16:56:11 »Like you I'd be sceptical of most repair places having any kind of test harness for such a thing these days, and therefore unable to say they'd "fixed" it versus they'd "opened up the box, had a poke around and done some basic electronics checks". You're needing to confirm both the hardware and the functionality, not just kicking the tyres.
All my random googling efforts last night amounted to not a lot more than what you've already got. The most extensive thing I found was your own thread on a Manta board - I won't bother post a link for you
Couldn't even see a pinout or circuit diagram. Is there a Haynes or GM service book for the Carlton/Senator/Monza? I'd searched on the "Bosch 0280220028" part number that gets banded about, before I noticed that was 2.5 and 3.0 specific and flipped over to "Bosch 0280220019" for the 2.2. I tried looking under "leerlaufregler" to see if I could pick up any of the Opel-derived mentions across Europe. Nowt though. Even searches on the usually trusty motor-talk.de proved fruitless. Maybe at a push you could track something down to at least give you a steer using all the different part codes for item 39 here - http://www.senator-monza.de/?MTPElERNZiMyETPElUTT1kJzUjNx0DRJVUTTZSM5ITM8NDOyEDf0EzM9EkUBBVT Aha, at least they have some wiring diagrams available it seems - http://www.senator-monza.de/?wM9QUSE1kJzMTPElUTT1kJ5UzM9QUSF10UmMjM9EkUBBVTAnd then slight improvement as I'm typing - is this a wiring diagram for the Jetronic on a Z22E with a leerlaufregler at K40 ?
- http://www.senator-monza.de/daten/2/2/bilder/Bilder%20Einspritzanlagen/Schaltplaene2020/Z22E%20Jetronic1024.jpg It's a big assumption on my part that's even the engine/year/ECU combination you're talking about, but at a glance the pinout seems to match the numbers on the ECU casing that I've seen in pics.Given all of that and the fact that you're progressing down the 'verify/replace the components' path, plus the fact that you've acquired a second working ECU (until it too fails), as a longer-term pastime for my own amusement I'd adopt a different tack. If you're able to measure the known inputs and outputs on a working ECU, one might perhaps be able to reverse engineer a map if it's a linear change. Then 'quickly' knock something up with an Arduino derivative to mimic that. Far, far easier if you had
Cheers, Stu
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General Car Chat / Re: Cooked it
« on: 28 June 2023, 10:59:22 »
Oh bugger 
I've a very familiar 2.6 with a fresh 12 months MOT sat here doing nothing, if you wanted to rekindle an old flame...
I've a very familiar 2.6 with a fresh 12 months MOT sat here doing nothing, if you wanted to rekindle an old flame...
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Meetings, gatherings, parties etc / Re: 1st Sunday of every month - North West Meet
« on: 24 March 2023, 18:04:14 »
There's at least me too Mike - but it seems the Rainhill meet always clashes with either me being away, or my slightly more local first-Sunday-of-the-month meetup.
I'll make a concerted effort to bring one of the rustbuckets down at some point during the summer though...
I'll make a concerted effort to bring one of the rustbuckets down at some point during the summer though...
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General Car Chat / Re: What sort of price?
« on: 23 March 2023, 18:27:46 »The 2.6 was, IMHO, the worse of all engines fitted to Omegas.
That reminds me, I really must get around to disposing of the driveway ornament - mine's been sat there doing nothing for a year and the MOT's due up again...
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General Car Chat / Re: Ford to relaunch the Capri
« on: 23 March 2023, 18:24:37 »
If it ever made it off the marketing whiteboard, it'd have as much to do with a 70s/80s Capri as the Mach-E thingummy has with the Mustang - the square root of flip all. They lack the imagination and guts to come up with new names for things, so trading on the past - however tenuous - always feels safer.
The article's 107% speculation, with the usual thinly-veiled undertones of "oh, while you're here, have a look at a few adverts"
The article's 107% speculation, with the usual thinly-veiled undertones of "oh, while you're here, have a look at a few adverts"
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General Car Chat / Re: Project anyone?
« on: 05 January 2023, 19:06:00 »Not that anyone would ever ring a stolen car using a scrap V5
Yup, that's all it is - the rest is mere window dressing ...
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Omega General Help / Re: ECU interchangeability
« on: 30 December 2022, 11:33:15 »
Time will tell. 
So for the moment, I'm not gonna sit here second guessing what will or won't happen with a spare ECU that I don't yet have, or any hacking I haven't done based on research that may or may not be finished...
So for the moment, I'm not gonna sit here second guessing what will or won't happen with a spare ECU that I don't yet have, or any hacking I haven't done based on research that may or may not be finished...
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Omega General Help / Re: ECU interchangeability
« on: 29 December 2022, 22:50:36 »
Nope, it's in the B58253 - apparently...
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Omega General Help / Re: ECU interchangeability
« on: 29 December 2022, 16:46:26 »If you can actually buy a matched set...
Let's go all the way back to summarising the first post for those at the back;
- I've got a working ECU, immobiliser ring and single chip for my engine
- I'd like another full kit as a backup, ideally with two transponder chips - but they're very scarce for the 3.0
- I'd rather not go with a less rare 2.5 kit, as we've established there's a different map in it
- I'm willing and curious enough to see if I can deal with the immobiliser EEPROM on a suitably cheap, standalone ECU