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Originally Posted by Cammy
Peter/ All,
Thanks for this very interesting lead. I have dropped him an e-mail with the full details of my ECU and EWS to ask the direct question about deleting the EWS.
As you know, I have an E39 M52 TU engine for my Sportster - supplied by Marlin after I told them I was not too bothered about high power or M Powered engines and gave them a free choice to find me a 'good engine'! I was speaking to Terry this week and she told me they had someone they use and that I should send them my ECU/EWS and they would get it deleted/re-mapped (makes you wonder why they sent it to me in the first place?). When I get a response from the e-bay guy I will pass the info to Marlin and seek positive confirmation about what their guy can do.
I will keep you posted on developments here but my other lines of enquiry suggest that the best (and possibly only way forward) is to retain the original loom to get the connectors, source a new ECU and get it mapped from scratch. I won't be too happy about this as it will add a fair cost to my project that could have been avoided if Marlin had done the right research.
Cheers for now
Cameron
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Hi Cameron,
the guy on ebay has already confirmed to Mike that he can only do the 'older' e36 variant of ECU call a MS41. (If you look at your ECU (or DME as BMW like to call it) you'll see it has a label marked MS41 or MS42, etc.
Do you know the age of the donor? (I presume you have the donor cars V5?)
In my opinion, as Marlin supplied you the engine with your kit, then I would send the ECU back to Terry and ask her to sort out the immobiliser. You then keep the responsibility with a single supplier (ie Marlin).
...peter