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Originally Posted by madwrx

jay kay i think decent mappable (affordable) ecu,s were really a later thing -the early stuff was pretty poor with very few mappers about

Indeed.

Anyone remember the 'first' sort of piggyback EPROM module, called I.C.O.N.? Looked a bit like an audio amp, with the heatsink fins. Came in garish anodised colours - cyan and magenta, IIRC.

Max Power fitted it on at least one of their giveaway competition projects, IIRC.

Ford's EECV ECU was a B**tard (when compared to the older EECIV and Bosch Motronic that was common back then).

Many tuners at the time just declared them untunable/unmappable. They did crack it in the end though.

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Originally Posted by joz8968 (Post 11995428)

Indeed.

Anyone remember the 'first' sort of piggyback EPROM module, called I.C.O.N.? Looked a bit like an audio amp, with the heatsink fins. Came in garish anodised colors. Cyan and magenta, IIRC.

Max Power fitted it on at least one of their giveaway competition projects, IIRC.

I had a chipped Golf Mk2 Big Bumper 8V GTi in the mid-90's with the K-Jetronic. It was done by the original AmD just north of Oxford in a lovely little village called Kidlington, it pushed out about 128 bhp.

As I lived in Germany at the time I could get parts of the VW Dealer shelves for their G60 and Rallye Golfs and bring them back. Nice guys, the name Devine (?) rings a bell.