97 Z24 ECM

[Money pit Beretta]

My GF's car has been a real pain and I'm thinking the ECM may be screwed up. It's a 1997 Cavalier Z24 2.4/auto. Anybody able to get one?

[3X00-Modified]

I haven't used this in a while....


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[Money pit Beretta]

Ha, ha. I should have said a used one. I don't have the money for a new one or to pay GM to flash it.

[3X00-Modified]

The first thing that comes up is an EBAY used one.... Come on man your killing me here.

[Money pit Beretta]

The used ones say"fits Z24" and it sure does, but they are not flashed for the 2.4L/auto.

[ifixalot]

try this
http://stores.ebay.com/SpareECM
They sell you one with the latest GM re-flash and you send back your old one.
It wasn't expensive and the car ran good.

[3X00-Modified]

comes up with this result on ebay first when clicked on...

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1997-1999-Caval ... 9c&vxp=mtr

I'm sorry it frustrates me when there is tons of info on the web and all you need to do is search or look around a little more yet your asking someone else to do it and post a link for you. There are ways to eliminate the "fits" a 97 cavalier in ebay as well, put quotes around what your searching and it only brings back that if it's in the description or body.

[Styluss]

LMGTFY is awesome.... And it's intention often goes unrealized...

I have been trying to forefront the movement on JFGI for a while now. Just Fucking Google It.

[Styluss]

LMGTFY is awesome.... And it's intention often goes unrealized...

I have been trying to forefront the movement on JFGI for a while now. Just Fucking Google It.

My suggestion would be to ask on the Cavalier forums. I'm sure there are a ton of them on there.

[Alpinestar10]

i should be able to get one for you there plentiful in yards around me whats years interchange?

[Money pit Beretta]

Looks to be 1996 to 1999. Not to sure on the 99 the Z24 was still around in Canada in 2000, but not here in the US. If the car has the 2.4 twin cam and an auto it should be the same.

Google and Bing come up with the samething. As for using " " on ebay I didn't know you could do that.
JBO is a good old boys club. I already looked over the site in the for sale and there is nothing there. Not many members there anymore, most have moved on.
Cragislist in my area didn't have anything. I know of a few people here that work at junk yards or go to one all the time. This place was my best bet. I trust people here also.
I have been looking for months for a good used one. Not five minutes so don't make me out to be one of those people that just give up easy.
Boy I'm glad that I waited this long to post it here. I was frustrated when I first started looking and all this crap would have pushed me passed the limit.

[scd88ga]

I can get you one as well. $50 shipped.

[Money pit Beretta]

Sounds good scd88ga. Let me see what Alpiestar comes up with first(you know that first offer thing). For the life of me I couldn't remember your name. You were one of the people I had in mind when this topic was started. Damn bad memory.....he is that sc 88 something guy(lol).

[3X00-Modified]

Seriously though... Ebay has tons of people offering ECU's for $60 fully programmed to match your vin with free shipping, and I found that by searching 97 cavalier computer, no quotes searching 97 cavalier ECU brings up flashmasters who offers the same service. And also searching Google for 97 cavalier ecu the first result is the Ebay search of the same exact words which brings up a full flashing service on an ECU, no core charge free shipping.

I just don't understand how you couldn't find anything sorry.

[Money pit Beretta]

Yeah I don't know what went wrong. I had never seen the reflash ECM's until you and jskiguy put up the links. Could be that Google is better than Bing. I don't know, but when Google said they were going to sell info I quit using it(yes I know Bing does it too). On the weatherstrip search I did that on both and the same sites came up on the first page(on Bing I checked 30 pages before I went to Google). Ebay does change from time to time, so that may be part of it.
Anyway I'm tired of screwing with this car. If I do something little it helps a little. If I do something big(replacing two bad injectors, intake gasket) it runs great for two to three days and it's back to doing the samething. Any code is for the cat(most of the time it's PO420). That has to do with the bad missfire.
Don't worry about it 3X00.