Ostrich Install

What is an Ostrich 2.0? Without getting too technical, it is a flashable EEPROM chip that acts as a "buffer" between your laptop and the ECU and makes tuning modifications possible without having to flash the stock EEPROM chip every time, saving much time! This is how to install an Ostrich 2.0 module.

Components you need:

Ostrich 2.0 Module

Floppy Cable such asthis

Your ECU

For the alternate method, you willalsoneed:

PLCC32 Socket

DIP-32 to PLCC-32 IC Adapter(Part E32-0035)

32 Pin Ostrich Cable

BEGIN

ostrich pinout

Method 1 If you look at this picture, you see pin 1, if you are looking directly at the ostrich connector, pin 1 on the schematic is the upper most right pin on the ostrich connector.

So..

Pin 1 = Upper most right

Pin 33 = Upper most Left

pin 2 = Bottom most right

Pin 34 = Bottom most Left

Now for the floppy cable, pin 1 is the wire that is pink (or colored). So the pink wire would correlate upper most right on the ostrich connector, but since nothing is connected to that I just snipped it. Pin 2, bottom most right is the second wire on the ribbon cable (next to the pink). That has no connection either so can be cut. The next wire correlates to pin 3, which is VCCT. You can now follow the pattern to figure out which wires correlate to which pin.

Here is the pinout of the EEPROM Chip.

Alright, here are some pictures of me splitting cables:

I cut off the male connector

Cables Split

Cables Split and the ones that do not have anything disconnected, cut

Taking apart ECU

There is the flash chip

In order to get the flash chip off, I used a dremel. If i were to do it again, I would do this method:

I then worked through the pinout and soldered all of the wires to the appropriate pads

All finished

For those of you like Hussein who do not want to solder here is method 2.

Method 2:

Parts required:

1. Moates http://www.moates.ne...EPROM Emulator.
2. PLCC32 Socket http://www.mouser.co...op1%2bdlxwofrg=
3. DIP-32 to PLCC-32 IC Adapter (
   E32-0035 ) From this site http://www.epboard.c...otoadapter2.htm
4. 32 Pin Ostrich Cable http://www.moates.ne...8.html?cPath=32

Simply desolder the PLCC32 chip using the above youtube video.

Solder in the PLCC32 Socket.

Plug the adapter into the socket, then plug the cable into the adapter, then the cable into the ostrich.

Setting Up Ostrich:

1. Install FTDI Drivers http://www.ftdichip....Drivers/VCP.htm
2. Then, on the ostrich, on the side there are little switches. These need to be set to 28/32 and 32.
3. Plug in the ostrich
4. Open up tunerpro RT.
5. You can then use all of the Emulation features like upload and emulate, etc. Refer to the help manual for this.

Hope this helps some of you guys.