DeTomaso Mailing List: February 2001, Message #172

> back to life!! At about 3:45 this PM on a beautiful So. Cal. day (about
> 75 deg and crystal clear in the basin). ZONKEY's new 4.6L '99 Cobra DOHC
> engine ROARED to life. 
> 
Cool, glad to hear it!  

>  Somewhere along the line, I decided
> to do the engine electronics my self. When Wilkinson first started doing
> the conversions, using the Ford electronics (the ECU) was not a
> realistic alternative: there was no way to retune it for the Pantera
> installation. Now there is. Custom chips can be burned to turn of or
> modify any of the computer's functions. Chipmaster is the system and
> Mike Wesley is the man. Wilkinson had his doubts, all I had was faith.
> The biggest hurdle was defeating the built-in anti theft. Without that
> I'd be dead in the water.
> 
Is the EEC re-tuner available for the end-user or do you have to send off 
for custom chips?  

Dan Jones