[TreyMR2]

Originally Posted by puretone

I had weird BEAMS ECU issues, I thought of swapping in a stand-alone as well as a potential "fix". Your target of 1300$, even if it's off, should be more than enough to have any OEM ECU diagnosed, trouble-shot & working with money left for some other awesome upgrade. 850$ is enough to tow it to a knowledgeable mechanic, have it get close to fixed. It will cost you 0$ to open up the lid to the OEM ECU and look around for obvious signs of dead-ECU, funny burnt smells, water/moisture deposits or witness-marks there of....
Jumping ship & going for the PFC, though it's a pretty damned good ECU, is not the way to go, especially if say there is a wiring issue that is causing the OEM ECU not to work. If this holds to be true and it say for instance burnt & shorted out the OEM ECU, then what sense does it make to go PFC and burn that one too? Brand spanking new 900-ish $ PFC that is killed within minutes. BTW the PFC uses the OEM wiring-harness, which sort of defeats your purposes, if it was something that came with it's own entire wiring-harness it would perhaps make more sense because you would bypass any current screw-ups in the OEM harness.....

For that same amount of money you can have it dropped at a Toyota dealer and have one of their more experienced wiring-nerds look at it before deciding anything....I did just that, and no the BEAMS was not an engine they had ever seen/heard of before....fan control pin was hax0red on it and caused it not to run.

From what I remember it was brought to some mechanic/mechanics...