It is also for use on motorbike engines & especially for the Suzuki Hayabusa with all its standard sensors and designed to run sequential ignition. A special piece of software has been written by MBE called soft start, this was produced due to known problem with the standard starter motors, that if the battery got a bit low sometimes the engine would kick back on starting and engage the starter clutch. This would, if you were lucky only damage the starter clutch itself, but if unlucky could break off part of the engine cases. Without going into too much detail, the ECU allows the engine to get up to speed during cranking before attempting to start the engine, if the engine does not reach sufficient speed it will not allow the engine to start, so damage can not occur.
Practical
Performance Car magazine reported on the MBE992 ecu in it's October 2006
issue & has kindly given us permission to reproduce the article.
MBE992E
PRICE OF EXTRAS: Software free. USB to CAN converter, £100
WHAT TRIGGER PATTERNS WILL IT READ: 36-1,60-2, 24-1, 12+1
CAN IT HANDLE BATCH AND SEQUENTIAL INJECTION? ECU designed for four-cyl-engines (sequential). MBE970E can do V8 (batch fired)
HOW MANY CYLINDERS CAN IT CONTROL AND IN WHAT CONFIGURATION? See above
DOES IT HAVE A SELF MAPPING FACILITY USING CLOSED LOOP LAMBDA? Yes, with wide-band lambda
DOES IT HAVE TURBO BOOST CONTROL? Yes
CAN IT RUN EIGHT INJECTORS ON A FOUR-CYL TURBO ENGINE? No but the 970 can
CAN IT HANDLE VARIABLE CAM TIMING OR DURATION SYSTEMS SUCH AS HONDA V-TEC OR ROVER VVC K-SERIES? Can do V-TEC but not VVC
DOES IT FEATURE KNOCK SENSING? No
DOES IT HAVE A CAN BUS FOR CONNECTION TO DIGI DASH SYSTEMS? CAN bus configured for AIM dash and will work with any configurable CAN data stream
CAN IT RUN MULTIPLE MAPS? IF SO, HOW MANY? No
WHAT AFTERMARKET SUPPORT IS THERE? Phone, e-mail and web
MBE 992 Ecu on our Suzuki 1300cc hayabusa display engine at the International Autosport Show 2006