DIY: V6 Burger Motorsports JB4 Installation

[kitkat]

Time for another Emira V6 DIY, this time it's for the Burger Motorsports JB4!

Installation Overview


Instructions
This installation assumes you are using a Darkworks Design JB4 Stealth Bracket. If you aren't, please skip steps 3-7 and figure out a way to zip tie your JB4.

1. Optional: Install Mobile Wireless Smart Phone Kit to your JB4 if you purchased it.

• 4 x H2.5 on the case
• Discard the extra small rubber plug
• 2 x phillips head screws that come with JB4 Mobile Kit

2. Remove front top engine cover
3. Remove rear top engine cover
4. Remove left side (LHD) engine side trim

• 4 x H4 button top screws
• Extreme Caution: Do not drop

5. Remove OEM air vent bolts

• 2 x 7mm 6 pt drive bolts
• Extreme Caution: Do not drop

6. Attach JB4 Bracket to the vent bracket

• 2 x 8mm 6 pt drive bolts that come with JB4 Stealth Bracket
• Extreme Caution: Do not drop
• This is probably the hardest part of this whole procedure

7. Attach JB4 to JB4 Bracket

• 2 x H3 button top screws that come with JB4 Stealth Bracket
• Extreme Caution: Do not drop

8. Optional: Wedge your Mobile Wireless extension between the firewall and the felt cover
9. Route your cables as per the video or however you see fit

• Don't touch the heatshield or the valve cover those get too hot with your wiring harness

10. Unclip MAF and TMAF sensors
11. Plug in the JB4 Connectors into your MAF and TMAF sensors
12. Tie down and affix your wiring harness

• I used 3 sticky 3/4" zip tie bases and 3 zip ties to affix the wiring harness to the outside of the engine bay box, the engine cover hides all the wiring once in place

13. Reinstall left side (LHD) engine side trim
14. Reinstall rear top engine cover
15. Reinstall front top engine cover

 

[Eagle7]

Did you install the OBDII cable, or just go with it as-is?

 

[kitkat]

Did you install the OBDII cable, or just go with it as-is?

I have to figure out the OBD2 cable, I'll be removing the rubber blank plug on the firewall and printing out a new one out of TPU. I have an idea of what it will look like but I still have to pull it out and take measurements. It's a problem because I think my carbon buckets might have to be removed on the driver side to get at it.

 

[virtualmacho]

Thanks for the video. Looks too straightforward to be true - what's the catch? How many screws did you drop?

 

[kitkat]

Thanks for the video. Looks too straightforward to be true - what's the catch? How many screws did you drop?

Let's just say if you drop a screw or a tool, your installation time goes up by the amount of time it takes you to jack the car up and remove all the underpanels and put them back on.

That's _if_ you find them at all.

 

[Eagle7]

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[Vampyre]

I have to figure out the OBD2 cable, I'll be removing the rubber blank plug on the firewall and printing out a new one out of TPU. I have an idea of what it will look like but I still have to pull it out and take measurements. It's a problem because I think my carbon buckets might have to be removed on the driver side to get at it.

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What about just slicing the stock one with a razor?

 

[kitkat]

What about just slicing the stock one with a razor?

Completely fine too, use the same kind of shape cuts. I’m just trying to find excuses to use my 3d printer and 2 kg of TPU

 

[Rapture]

I have to figure out the OBD2 cable, I'll be removing the rubber blank plug on the firewall and printing out a new one out of TPU. I have an idea of what it will look like but I still have to pull it out and take measurements. It's a problem because I think my carbon buckets might have to be removed on the driver side to get at it.

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Is that wireless kit only used to connect the JB4 to the phone App?

If you purchase the wireless connectivity kit, do you still need to install the OBD2 cable to access that real time feed?

If so, it would be nice if there was a Bluetooth dongle that could connect the JB4 to the Emira OBD2 port.

 

[kitkat]

Is that wireless kit only used to connect the JB4 to the phone App?

If you purchase the wireless connectivity kit, do you still need to install the OBD2 cable to access that real time feed?

If so, it would be nice if there was a Bluetooth dongle that could connect the JB4 to the Emira OBD2 port.

You don’t have to install the OBD2 cable at all if you don’t want to but you need it if you plan on sending logs back to Burger to fine tune things or check your fueling quality.

Reading OBD over BT ELM would be nice but I think they’d need a new board for this and probably move over to something more expensive. The overwhelming majority of people here won’t need to do the OBD install and I haven’t figured out solid instructions so I didn’t supply those instructions. I’ll update my first post once I figure all that out.

 

[NoFear99]

You don’t have to install the OBD2 cable at all if you don’t want to but you need it if you plan on sending logs back to Burger to fine tune things or check your fueling quality.

Reading OBD over BT ELM would be nice but I think they’d need a new board for this and probably move over to something more expensive. The overwhelming majority of people here won’t need to do the OBD install and I haven’t figured out solid instructions so I didn’t supply those instructions. I’ll update my first post once I figure all that out.

We cannot do proper data log without the obd2 cable connected ?

 

[kitkat]

We cannot do proper data log without the obd2 cable connected ?

Correct, the JB4 unit needs access to CAN which it does not do with those two connectors to the map and tmap sensors.