New conversion 360 to manual shift

Interesting. I have the perfect candidate sitting at my shop right now. It's an f1 360 that will not move due too f1 system issues. Car has been parked outside for the last 2 months waiting for the owner to make up his mind what he wants to do with it.

As soon as you practicly can..put together some pricing for us. I may be interested. Thank you..

 

Is your plan to offer a complete, out of the box kit for the DIY crowd? Would be keen to see pics and your own converted car along with pricing.

 

What is your take on the ecu part?

 

Hi Jerad,

I'm working on a large volume, low cost DIY F1 to gated conversion kit. Mostly done, but a few parts are still being made. I plan to sell only complete kits, but if in meanwhile you need any parts that I already have in large volume (like pedals) please let me know and I will gladly help.

Is your objective to build a business around the conversions or do you have other things to do and this is simply a side effect of wanting to convert your car (and maybe convert those of some friends)? If that's the latter, I can share what I have already made and save you the hassle.

 

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Sample photos of the parts made.

 

I would like to also learn what Jerad is planning for the ECU, but my solution is to provide a simple to use laptop software and associated hardware to do the programming. The hardware is done, software is still in testing. Basically a user selects Gearbox type (Automatic or Manual) and presses "Write". The tool first does the ECU backup (just in case), reads the current ECU software, modifies needed parameters, calculates the checksums etc and writes back the new configuration. The conversion works both ways, from automatic to manual, and also the other way around for anyone who would like to converted gated manual to F1

Sample screen shot attached.




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looking good

 

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Fantastic developments.

 

can the F1 system not be repaired? The only answer is to convert the car to a stick shift?

 

No problem fixing it. Anything can be repaired. However this particular car has a few rather massive issues over and above the F1 stuff. The option of the conversion could very well be cheaper over the long term then trying to fix the F1 system to return any sort of reliability.

 

George, great work on all fronts. Regarding the software, this looks brilliant. I take it the EEPROM refers to the dash cluster chip with the F1/manual setting? Regarding the flash, I assume this is the engine ecu(s) flash memory? If so, do you plan to correct existing flash memory to manual mode, or load up a standard manual flash file?

 

Looks like this software project is using my open source-software to do it... Image Unavailable, Please Login

I fully wrote all the capabilities shown this and released the majority of it (except without a User Interface) into the public domain for those technically minded enough to follow it.

https://github.com/360trev/ME7RomTool_Ferrari

I know they've used (or been heavily inspired) by my software (which is absolutely fine as I released it FREE) as I "incorrectly" referred to the 360's Bosch ECU as being 'ME7.3H4' when its actually not Hardware revision 4 at all. My mistake which has been copied here too.

The ability to do the checksums on the main rom, the eeprom and even the reading/writing was all disclosed (freely!) several years ago now!

I will do a big upgrade very shortly too which will provide some 'free' tools for Ferrari owners... watch this space...

 

Exciting thread! Converting my SMG M3 to Manual was the best thing I ever did. Hope I can do the same to my 360 soon

 

This is great ...is your shifter(rod) same as spec as OEM?

 

Thank you. Moderators noted that any new product discussions should be on the For Sale thread (where I will take it when I have the kit ready for sale so I'm avoiding further comments here. Chat may be the best for discussing specifics, but in short:

1. The shifter rod (the part on which the shift knob screws on) is the same as OEM in a sense that it can be installed into original gated car with all the other original parts

2. It has been improved comparing to OEM:
a) It's made of polished stainless steel not chromed steel, so there is no chrome to chip around the gate like in the original. If it is scratched, it can be re-polished.
b) It's made (CNC) to higher tolerances than OEM.

 

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I love that we have so many genius owners out there! Good luck! Ill be watching closely even tho im in the F430 group

 

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I also purchased a clutch pedal from George (which is how I initially found out about this avenue) The quality looks great and I'm excited for what's to come.

 

I would be interested in this as well. Keep us/me posted!

 

Amazing work, subscribed!


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Hi @modificator, I'm very interested in this kit but I don't yet have PM privileges. I've been looking at 360s (longtime Lotus owner looking to take the Fcar plunge, you can find me on LotusTalk under the same username) and had all but resigned myself to living with an F1, but your kit might be within my budget. If you could PM me with pricing and availability I'd be grateful.

Thanks,
Andrew