172 race rally car immobilizer removale?

[paul321wales]

building a rally car and need to run std ecu what do you guys do about getting rid of the immobilizer?

 

[MicKPM]

Speak to Paul at RS Tuning.

 

[paul321wales]

can i find him on here mate?

 

[sam JFM]

Why bother removing it?

 

[paul321wales]

dont want the risk of any problems save weight etc

 

[sam JFM]

Weight saving?

its a decoder ring on the ignition barrel it probably weighs the same as your hair!

I have kept mine on my rally car

 

[paul321wales]

but then i can start cutting away at all the wirring and thining out other looms in one go,

 

[sam JFM]

Yeh, that's true.

I suppose it depends on what level of car you are building - if its a full spec car with a clicky box etc. then it would probably be worth it.

I felt that for the what? 3-5kg the loom weighs I removed the obvious airbag/radio cabling and left it


mine is only a mere toy though:race:

 

[paul321wales]

same here mate mine will be road rally and single venue, i guess i just want to de clutter and get rid of messy wirring etc, do you run a heater box/motor?

 

[MicKPM]

If you're doing all this to a genuine competition vehicle then you'd be absolutely stupid to not use aftermarket management and drop all standard looms in favour of proper competition wiring with just the basic circuits for power, lights and cut-offs

 

[paul321wales]

i cant use mbe etc for road rallying unless things have changed, been a few years

 

[sam JFM]

same here mate mine will be road rally and single venue, i guess i just want to de clutter and get rid of messy wirring etc, do you run a heater box/motor?

You can hide most of the wiring behind the dash when you have removed circuits you want.

No I removed that, its quite a hefty lump plus the main reason for removing it was I didn't have control over it ( standard climate control mixed with a cup heater just didn't work, fan did - controlling the vent direction didn't!) and it got red hot inside the car so I replaced it with a T7? designs jobbie

 

[MicKPM]

You got a copy of the rules and regs to hand? I'd read into it as most people that play with the standard loom do more harm than good as they simply do not understand CAN BUS

 

[paul321wales]

very true i will look into it more, just getting ahead of myself in the build haha