RE: Car electronics

["Brian Shorey" <bshorey@domain.elided>]

>Granted, Bosch will have sold a large number of Jetronic and Motronic
>units to other builders that might be adapted to "future classics" like
>Alfas. That's what I meant by relatively standard. There's still the
>problem of what happens when Bosch has not been producing a particular
>ECU for 20 years or so. In 20 years, the sensor technology may have
>changed so much that "current" ECU's might not work with an aging 164
>or Milano.

>>Considering the large number of aftermarket mods available to electronic
>>cars, even Alfas, it would seem to me to be not *quite* as hard to create
>>reproduction units as Simon implies. This is not to say it will be easy,
>>it won't and it will be expensive.

>Mods are one thing outright replacements are another. You can buy power
>chips for current ECUs. These are basically PROMs that store the curves

you can't buy these power chips for an l-jet - it's an analog computer.  you
modify the characteristics by changing resistors.

for those that are panicking, i've got a small stack of ecu's in the
garage - gtv6, milano, verde, and spider.  buy now before the y2k rush ;)

bs

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