2005/03/29 20:01:59
grant
I could have said the same a few months ago, but it's actually pretty straight forward once you get into it. Each wire from each switch etc just goes to the labeled spot on the relay board, power plug in and thats basically it.

I forgot all about the throttle linkage, working on it tonight.
2005/03/30 12:57:37
grant
Ashley,

It was probably the cheapest option and has a lot of features and addons, if people understand it's the linux of ECU's and just like linux time will increase the popularity then price. I picked up 2 ecus and a relay board with cases for $500US so around $300 au but that was the quick way out as i don't have enough time to build one.

I saw these a while back but wasn't to keen on the idea, so my dad decided to do an engine and ecu conversion on his car with one, i was waiting for the day i could laugh at him when it got throw in the bin but that hasn't happened yet. His is running fine we tuned ourselves with little knowledge of efi, ecus (believe me it does run ).
He is doing another one for his other car, and i'm doing one for mine, so were both getting a lot better with how it all works.

I'm putting the car back together today so shouldn't be long off
2005/03/30 17:35:35
Paul Dunstan
Great work Grant (and Grant Senior ).

Seems as though you and your Dad are the MS ginea pigs of this forum. I have read alot about MS and it's success but unlike most things that come comparitively cheaply this looks like a decent product. It also has decent support through it's own forum etc.

Regardless of the outcome, for the financial outlay you can't go wrong
2005/03/30 19:21:20
grant
Dave,
Thats looks like a fair bit, i'll post a pic of the harness when i can find some wrap for it, it's not much. So how much cossy gear did you bring with you?? i'm listening.

Paul,
Yeah i basically used my dad as the guinea pig, which seamed to have survived .
So i'm probably the escort guinea pig, not long to go
2005/04/04 08:38:12
grant
Well its all on and wired up, everything seems to be working, however the injectors aren't firing at all, aren't getting any current. Just some grounds need taking care of nothing major. i think the cos injectors might be coming out and the sierras are going back in the cos yellow are low impedance by the looks and the sierras are highs.
Got about 3 fires out of it by hotwire grounding the injectors however it's hard to tap the wire at 1ms intervals.

should be going soon heres a pic of the current mess/engine bay.

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2005/05/04 10:39:06
Mk2_2dr_2L
Looks like fun [:u] Hope ya get it up and running soon
2005/05/04 13:41:36
grant
I know its going to be something really stupid. 2 batterys are on the charger ran out of batterys to flatten without taking them out of other cars
2005/05/04 20:34:59
grant
[:I] Uh seem to have worked out the "problem", the ecu got mixed up with the other 2 here and well it didn't have the code loaded into it, so a quick upload an it was away. [88]

With a VERY dodgey ve table i mean 47 in every box at every rpm, it fired up in about 1 crank and began idling, once it warmed up a bit set the idle back, once a bit hotter you could actually rev it. Ran great idled pretty good, i was surprised at how good it ran considering there was nothing fine tuned it in.

So after hours of swearing and swearing and testing and swearing thats all it was, i checked every wire on the db37 ( as i had to make on) and all tested fine, replaced the injector Fet's on the board and the injector driver chip.

I now just have to put everything back on/in the car i pulled back out when problem hunting, and make a intake and air filter up and then i can start tuning it on the road.

2005/06/04 11:16:26
Mk2_2dr_2L
It's always something stupid isn't it [%] haha
2005/08/04 10:20:08
grant
Just took it for a strap around the paddock, goes very well from what i've seen better then the carbys.
Well my generated ve table seems to have worked, had to raise a few in the lower rpm sections. There is a dirty big step up in the 3d graph from 47%VE to 104%VE between 3000rpm - 3900rpm at 100map which stay the same working down through the maps. I don't know if it should be like that however thats when the cam comes on power and once you put your foot down it takes off straight up to the 6K mark.

Still to make a propper intake as the current is um sticky taped on which is why its not going up the street yet. I'm going to run some ducting from the throttle body through that hole at the front in the engine bay which is plated up and hang the pod filter in behind the nosecone.
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