Its been a long two days and trying to use nats looms and ecu was a total waste of time, so today 4 hours was spent trawling through scrap yards looking for a none nats micra I found only one, and that was a 1.0ltr so with my back against the wall Ive had to use the looms and ecu from that, anyway I finnished running those in this evening and for now I will have to run the 1.3 engine on the 1.0ltr ecu it will have to do for now until I turn up a 1.3 unit. Tommorow will see the gearbox and maybe the dash board go back in im undecided as to use the facelift dashboard or go retro and fit a prefacelift dashboard as this would make life easier in the long run time will tell...........
with regards to using the looms and ecu from a nats enabled car I would say its not a good idea I tried 3 combinations of ecu transponder ring and chips from the key and they all failed to work, and the kicker was that the cars they were removed from all started before I removed them and the loom I was using was also from one of those cars, why they failed is a mystery to me, So anyone doing this sort of conversion or even thinking of it if you want to save yourself a lot of heartache then sorce some none nats looms and ecu or be prepared to pay nissan £100 + to recode everything unless your lucky of course. I also have an issue with using 1.0ltr looms in that the 1.3 gearbox I want to use has a neutral switch and a reverse switch both have two wires running to them however the 1.0ltr loom caters for the 1.0ltr box that has on 1 switch to do both and has four wires running to it hopefully tommorow with franks help I will rezolve this, as I would rather retain the 1.3 box instead of replacing it with a 1.0ltr unit other issues are wiper motors arnt the same but thats easy fixed and lights are different plugs again easy fixes dashboard well thats another issue all together but im hopefull.
