EMU Pro and a Mini Cooper power steering pump?

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Long time listener, first time caller.

I’m building a pretty absurd ‘72 Cadillac with an EMU Pro 16 and PMU 24 (and a few other things). I have a power steering pump from a 2002-2008 Mini Cooper that I’m going to be using. I know I can send 12v to one pin and it will activate in ‘limp home mode’ and that they used k-bus to send speed signals to the power steering pump so I think I have a solution there with a combination of ESP32-S3, a MCP2515 and a MCP2004 and some rather creative message masquerading. This car is immense and heavy and I’d really rather it not be in high speed on the power steering pump above a certain speed so I’d like to figure this out.

I just saw that there is a Cooper interface from ECUMaster and was wondering if there was some native support without having to McGuyver some bonkers solutions.

Any thoughts?

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There is no direct support for this pump. None of our ECUs support K-line communication to regulate the pump speed. The pump works in the limp mode after the alternator is starting to charge.

Best regards,

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