Thread: Pre-facelift with 15(+)P engine MSB ECUs

The vehicle has long gone, it was an MY2002 pre facelift, the same as all the others I've seen fitted with EU3 and NNN ECU's.

I know of precisely 0 MSB ECU's with EU3 factory mapping

I've given a couple of suggestions in the other thread.

Originally Posted by discorevy

I know of precisely 0 MSB ECU's with EU3 factory mapping

That's what i'm trying to figure out cos i'm 100% convinced that what i saw was factory fitted with MSB101330/40 and they had 3 wire AAP from factory, i had to rewire the 4'th from airbox to the ECU plug cos that wire was not there at all. IMO it was a batch of vehicles in that 2001/2 transition year which had the 15P engines and a strange Eu2/3 map in those MSBs cos it worked only with 3 track throttle setting which if it was a "clean" Eu2 it should have worked with 2 track, maybe at that time LR knew it's not 100% OK and exported most of them in less developped eastern european(or ROW) countries cos that's what happens with more developped countrie's "spoilages"(not the case for Australia)... that "several" means at least 4 which i remember clearely, one of them was less than 3 months ago as i helped a friend to rewire the AAP and set the remapped NNN ECU he bought for better performance, the MSB matched with the vehicle's VIN which was ... 1Asomething . I confirmed myself the oddity cos i fitted the MSB101330 to my ...YA.... Eu2 vehicle for test and after i made it learn the security code i checked and it had 3 track throttle setting, when i set it to 2 track it just idled so went back to 3 track to be able to accelerate and it ran with a lot of black smoke. So IMO it's something strange between Eu 2 and 3, i wouldnt have insisted on this just for fun believe me, i'm really interested to find a logical explanation for future reference.


seems that this breaker removed it from a 15P as well

MSB101330.jpg

I don't have any MSB units here with those numbers but from what I can gather, the MSB000080 and MSB101360 also have the same 3 way throttle coding along with your MSB101330 as the NNN units.
But as far as I know ( I'm no expert on it ) that is where the similarity with NNN unit mapping ends, so I don't know why yours was smoky when fitted, but theoretically, I'd think a NNN ECU with an EU3 factory tune, fitted to an EU2 engine would smoke a bit more ( Injectors outputting more fuel ) so I can see why you think that.