Does anyone have experience with the FTech9 944 Spec DME. Do they reuse your old DME casing? Mine is an early model casing with a late model motherboard inside. Does anyone know where the flywheel sensor chip is? My DME recently cooked itself.

 

Give Joe a call or shoot him an email. He’s pretty responsive.

You don’t have to send yours in first. You can buy a new one and he will refund a core charge when you send your old one in.

 

AFAIK, Joe doesn’t rebuild early DME’s…yet. He will require you to purchase a later model one. He will modify that one for you and make it fit your early DME plug. It will make your engine perform more smoothly and with several problems eliminated. He is currently working on an AFM that will be in total agreement with your new DME. This will give you better airflow and metering instead of the AFM with its barn door. Read all of the fetch 9 posts and you will get a better understanding of what he does and why. Just sayin, Thanks😀.

 

Well its a weird send in for me. I have a late model DME the 28 pin kind but its in a early model DME casing, I read from the Spec DME listing he only reuses the external connector and the flywheel sensor chip. Is that something he will still want me to send in?

 

How did you end up with a late board on an early case? I thought the cases were the same anyway..

 

The original owner of the car put a 28pin motherboard in his cars DME so he could run the Floyd Wilkes chip. The early model casing has 4 screws front and back and the late model has tabs and you can only open it from one side. I think the late model has screws too but only on the side the tabs are on.

Edit: Its very confusing on why the guy put it in a early model casing but the DME is 28 and the early model casings were never 28 or even 24 pin. So confusing I'm not gonna lie.

 

I don't want to have to open a new thread for a simple question. Do I have to send FTech9 my DME or can I just buy it. In the policies sections of their website I quote:

"DME Core Charge Policy:
Focus 9 Technology, LLC offers an optional refundable core charge for its DME products. To qualify for a full refund, you must send in your core DME within 30 days from the date you receive your F9T DME. Your core DME must be from a late model 944 (1985.5 to 1991) equipped with an 8-valve engine. The core must have the following components in reusable condition with good aesthetic appearance: enclosure lid, enclosure base, system connector and S100 microchip. Your refund may be prorated depending on the condition of one or more of these parts at our discretion."

Does the initial price account for not sending in your DME? If you send your DME in you will receive a refund if you choose to not send in your DME you will not get the refund?
Sorry for the idiotic questions but I'm having a hard time comprehending the description of the product vs their policies vs what people say.

Thanks,
TurrFinn

 

I think your best bet is just to talk to Joe.

 

Ditto I would just ask, or you can always pickup a DME from one of the used parts places/Ebay, I almost did that but ran out of motivation and just sent mine off for Joe to do his magic.

 

I've sent him an email but have yet to receive a response

 

He's on here quite a bit. @Ftech9 calling Joe.

 

Hello,

Do you have pictures of this early DME with late model electronics installed? Not sure exactly how this could be possible because the 35pin system connector pinout is mirrored, I would very much like to see this.

In any case, at this time I can only upgrade a late model 944 8-Valve DME to a 944SPEC or Sport DME. However, I do offer a refundable core charge if this is a better option.

-Joe

 

I only presume its late model electronics because it has a 28 pin chip installed, so I could be wrong about the electronics but in my mind 28 pin is late model tech. The casing doesn't have the bendable tabs and I can take the cover off on both sides so I know that part of it is early model. Also just a quick question, I read your policies about the core and read something about it being optional. Can I still buy an DME from you without having to send one in? Sourcing a late model in nice condition is so hard.

 

You peaked my interest with it being 35 pin and I counted the pins on my DME and I counted 35, is there suppose to be less?
Edit: If you want more photos of it I can provide snap some more and if you want me to open it up and take a photo of anything specific I can do that too.

 

I'm going to agree with you that that case is an early model. And the DME itself. However, that whole piece where the power prom chip is? That's all a hack job. The lighter green board where it sits? That's some kind of 28 pin adapter. I'm guessing to do exactly what we see here, use a 28 pin in an early DME. Are there chips UNDER that board? (the light green adapter board). Or I wonder if those have been removed and those extra chips on the light green board replace them?

I may be talking out of my *** here. I'm talking like I know what I'm talking about. But I Googled early DME's, and there is a very through write-up (right here on rennlist)on a 83 DME, and yours looks exactly like it, except that board I'm calling an adapter. and those black wires connecting to it? Don't see that on any other board I could find. So I'm calling what I said above an educated guess. Here's that 83 I'm talking about:


In fact, in your pic, I can see several of the chips from the picture above have been totally removed from your board. All those on the outside, and in the area where that adapter board is.

That's one hacked-up DME dude!