Gday stranger, nice to see you back.
I hope you've slung a towbar on the back there, then you can whip down the river and chuck in a quick rally stage between runs. Although big block is goign to make her a wake boat :)
 
Fancy an expenses paid trip to sunny Geelong to do some spraying? 
Marty dragged me into the ITB caper, after buying a full set of Honda ITBs as pictured earlier. My set cost under $100 shipped. Then the plan was to buy an inlet from the UK or 3D print as we are doing.
Speeduino came up while learnign the other bits needed, and what I liked was its open source, and support is much more readily and freely available. There is a bit of a learnign curve, but with our case using Pintos', its pretty basic setup and peeps have done it before.
 
Plus, the head speeduino dude is just in Ballarat, which is good to 'buy local'.
So far, the Speeduino itself cost me around $150, but it should have been less cause I buggered up on the componets to buy, and needed a second order.Plus I changed the format of the case to make hooking up easier.
Check out 'Making for Motorsport" on YT if you havent already, David does a pretty good intro, and also prints his own manifold. What engine are you planning? Theres a high chance Speediuno will cope with it, and theres likely to be a base tune available as well.
 
I can just about use a timing light, thats the extent of my tuning knowledge, but we'll give it a crack, and see how far we get. Can always ask for help on the SP forums.... (or go back to the 32/36)
 

so long as the forum doesnt meltdown from the sudden flurry..
 
Mark if you want to join us in the Speeduino sandpit and play around with the soldering iron at the same time, send me your address.
I have a previous model 4.3 board and some componets you can solder in (was pictured earlier on in the thread), not much of a challenge but gives you an idea if making a board yourself is the go or not. You can buy them completed of course, or in various bundles with the Arduino:
https://sparkefi.net/ is a cheap supplier, even free post to Aus. Just takes a while to get here.
 

Speeduino controlled small block speedboat.
It does support launch control!,
 
Imagine the look on the skiers face, being launched into outerspace, classic.

My bro used to do the circuit board etching in the 90s , 1 good thing is he brought home some real flat and stuff boards which didn't make the grade. I remember using 1 decent size to make a chassis for my competition RC buggy, it was bare without copper. The chassis plate made my buggy underweight by a 20c piece, this was in the early 90s and the buggy got me to state champ qualify in 2wd modifieds , came 3rd outright. The board never broke even with some monstrous crashes it went thru, even a small fire in the track lol... Good old days

Definitely like to see the water pilling of like that.
Don't stress about the Speeduino stuff Deano, I have to contact the tuner I was mentioning to see how his first foray into Speeduino is progressing.
Only realised you were in Vic the other day. I just took the boat to Bendigo, then we went down to Queenscliff across to Sorento and around the coast back to sunny Greenwell Point. It was a good excuse to catch up with some friends scattered around Vic and travel 2200km in 6 days.
Will be coming back down before Christmas to pick it up.

finally a little progress with the van.
It now has a running pinto of sorts, after some time yesterday.
I made a few rookie mistakes, but all in all, a good day. The timing was roughly set, had, spark, fuel in the carb bowls, it would turn over nice but not really fire. Of course I had left the vaccum hose from the inlet for the brake booster unplugged, so it had no vacuum.
Plug it up, and jumped 3 feet when it firsed on the next hotwire.
Sounded pretty fruity too with no exhaust.

 The new clutch has arrived, so time to get the flywheel off and machined.
I also finally found an Escort sump to go on later., so that got a clean up as well.

 
 
 


 
tidy enough to see any oil leaks in the future.
Once I can clear some shed space clear, the body will go back on the spit, to finish off underneath, check the gearbox mount points, and general tidyoff and do the guard bottoms, and bottom paint.
Then when the time comes, I'm thinking it might be easiest to take the struts and crossmember off, and lower the car over the complete engine/gearbox/suspension combo...?

hmm, maybe I rotisserie it over.
I could do the whole drivetrain!
Diff, rear springs, tailshaft,gearbox, engine and struts.
Just roll the whole thing alongside, and rotate the body back aroud ontop!
 
No wait, that wont work, what was I thinking.
My rotissorie is old school and does not  have a 4 pot Brembo and vented disk fitted to it. :)
Looking forward to shed pics.

some minor progress, after the boat got in the way.
1 month to scrape/antifoul/paint, but its done now.
 
Anyhow, the sump is now on, with matching pickup.
Hopefully the sump gasket had enough sealant in the right spots to behave.
 
The engine stand got an update as well,  no more hotwiring!. A Luxury keystart, will make it easier if the Speeduino stuff gets doen out of the car. Might even hook the guages up oneday
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Someone online has fed me links for stainless exhaust bits through ebay, so I've ordered a TIG torch for the Lincoln welder, may as well learn to tig as well. After christmas I reckon.
 
If anyone is after welding stuff, Marty put me onto Hampdon welding and gas supplies www.hamdon.com.au in WA.
Absolutely great service, prices, and order of Tig rods, tips and bits  arrived next day.
 
And while its not a map of Aus, WTF is this I found yesterday on the block?
Cold day in the workshop many moons ago, engine reco'rs code for something?