Re: ECM Availability

[David Cooley <n5xmt@triad.rr.com>]

At 09:15 PM 8/22/00, you wrote:

> Currently on the GM Corvette C5R we use a dual setup on both the ign and
> ecm used for fuel injection. Failures are even less likely here as the
> componants are MIL spec from Hughes as opposed to consumer MSD boxes.
> (Tho I think they made a new "mil spec-racer" ignition box)


Eww... I used to work for Hughes before and after GM bought them...
I wouldn't say failures are less likely... GM should have stuck with Delco...
We used to get modules back from the field all the time with foil gum 
wrappers between the board and case, between boards etc, and all were still 
sealed and pressurized with nitrogen gas...
Hughes hires foreign workers and pays minimum wage to the workers on the 
assembly line...  Basically they manufacture junk.  They got worse after GM 
bought them, as GM started laying off left and right... there theory was, 
if they can't do it right, we'll lay off 1/3 of them and see how they like 
it...  Now they can't meet production deadlines and the quality still 
sucks?!?!? we'll lay off more...
I got out on my own while the getting was good.


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