i sold my msp ecu awhile back. these are the only pics i have of it.
http://www.mazdas247.com/forum/showthread.php?t=123681985&page=2
what is the company name or product name?
here is some info that ken at protege garage posted in response to flashing the msp ecu(or any protege ecu for that matter):
"its not that simple and its been discussed to death here. dealers can do it because they have $10,000 units designed to do so. dealers also do not write the code, thats done overseas. many very experienced companies have tried to reflash the computers in these cars and the ones in miatas, etc etc and failed. it has taken cobb years to crack the rx8 ecu and over a year to supposedly crack the mazda3 ecu.
besides the simple fact - these cars are no longer in production, modified by a small group of people and therefore not worth the return/risk investment for 90% of the companies out there. there is a Ford tuner who was mildly (and i stress MILDLY) interested in doing a protege reflash but he is pretty sure the start up costs to do so would be extremely high.
i'm not trying to come across as an asshole here. it was discussed back in 02 and 03 when turboing the proteges was all the rage. bell engineering tried to do it. flyin miata tried to do it. ECUs were send out to companies across the country to have them do it. the information was posted long ago. the reason its not discussed any more is simply because of that, that it is a dead issue put to rest along ago. and yes i have posted this information before.
to clarify the question and the answer; can the protege ECU be reflashed with custom maps for various performance modifications in the manner that an accessport reflashes a subaru? no, it has not been successfully and cannot be done.
as for the "10,000 dollar machine", its a dealer WDS that among other things diagnoses your vehicle sensor by sensor, value by value to isolate problems faster. the machines can reflash the computer with a map loaded onto it by a mazda disc. you cannot write a map and put it on the unit. they do not even write the maps in this country. the best thing you could, in theory, do is to reflash an ECU with an MP3 or MSP map and give non turbo protege owners a cheap way to open power or allow for boost. i have yet to find a dealer or mechanic that will do this for me under the table or otherwise. some people say they have gotten thier local guy to do it for them you would also need to know the 'part number' of the individual reflash as its not going to come up in the menu as "msp ecu map" or "mp3 map"
i have tried to buy the machine to reflash the maps with mp3 or msp maps and been refused sale of it from several sources.
this of course would do nothing for msp owners. and putting an msp map on a stock protege wanting to go turbo is not the *best* way to do it."
goodluck. if they could flash it and sell for a reasonable price, they would steal soooo many sales!
