man i love your ride....absoulutley craps allllllll over mine. still i would like to give you a sound off and possibly even a drag. a fine machine. did you say you did the paint yourself??? goodwork

cheers shea

Simon,
The megasquirt is all ready to go, the hardest thing i think is working out where to put it. the relay board goes under the bonnet so then just run a db27 back to the ecu. I'm runing electronic ignition now, will see how it goes should handle it. I'll probably be looking at distributorless EDIS board for it when the new MS chip comes out.

Just gotta take those bloody extractors out again to put the lambda in [V]

Managed to get a fair bit done over the last few days, extractors have been in and out and o2 flange fitted, carbys off , wiring harness is done, just need some wrap for cables, run a few other power wires etc ecu is mounted as in pic, relay board is going infront of fuse box (engine bay) then connects to the ecu with db37.

Should be going by the weekend or on the weekend i hope. Just have to sort out a air intake tube not using the old one anymore.

After that i plan in getting a megaview display and mounting that between the console and ashtray surround gap with a usb connector on the edge for tuning it.



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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

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

Looks like fun [:u] Hope ya get it up and running soon

[: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.

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.