The damaged pins have nothing to do with loading the firmware - they seem to have been the result of a faulty injector driver.

 

? so this isnt my fault possibly? I geus the baord is still a right off but i feel better about telling my buddy his **** is destroyed knowing it was just a faulty component. Where on the baord do i have to check for the injector driver?

And scot if that is old then they should update that shiz, i was only doing what i could find to do.
If this turned out to be a faulty injector driver atleast it didnt go out on my buddy while he was driving the car and lunch his motor, or cause a fire. Im still going to split the cost of a replacement with him it is only fair since he left the car in my care.

 

The only other possibility I can think of is a faulty wiring harness - one that's wired those pins straight to an unfused 12 volt source.

 

The unit and harness were perfectly fine until Magna got his Brutish hands on it.

I agree with Matt, something shorted out something on one half of the injector outputs...did you have the board open and exposed when you were fussing around with it?

 

I just opened it up and jumpered the boot i didn't have anything touching the baord.

 

The pins that got hot are a ground signal...the only way that could happen is if 12v got applied to them.

On that harness, he has a dangling 12v wire hangout out of it...is it possible this hit the case of the MS? Like when did you notice the harness starting to melt down?

 

i had the case away from the harness we where doing a tranny tunnel mount on the unit. the meltdown happened when i tried to flash firmware i had the unit on powered on and off several times before that trying to get it to communicate before that with no incident. Is the 12 V wire one of the spares you had in the harness i beleive i taped them all up before i stuffed everything under the panel and bolted it down.