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Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 10:58 pm 
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Here are some pic's of my brothers EF turbo. I have just finished fitting the Megasquirt. My brother did all the fabrication work and I did the electronics. At the moment there is no intercooler but the plan is to fit water/methanol injection. The pipe work still needs cleaning, painting and polishing.

The megasquirt controls the factory coil packs and I made an adaptor loom so the megasquirt just plugs into two plugs in the engine bay. I mounted the megasquirt in the glovebox for easy access. I drove it around the block for the first time tonight with just the base settings in the megasquirt and it drove quite well considering no tuning has been done.

 

 

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Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 11:01 pm 
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looks good =D welcome to Fordmods.

any pictures of the outside?

 

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Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 11:07 pm 
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I don't have any pictures of the outside. It's just a stock grey EF fairmont. Its been sitting for a while so it's dirty and looks a bit sad at the moment.

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Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 11:09 pm 
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lol you should leave it stock on the outside, would make a nice sleeper :twisted:

 

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Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 11:12 pm 
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Yeah there are no plans to change it. The only give away is the exhaust. :lol:

 

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Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 11:30 pm 
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Great effort.

want to write a guide on how to setup the MS for an EF ?
did you use a EDIS module ?
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Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 11:35 pm 
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yeah was it difficult to get the MS working with the EF coil packs???

is yours manual or auto....if its auto how are u controlling it?

 

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Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 9:16 am 
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I guess I could do a right up when I get some time. But all the info required is in the megasquirt manuals. There is no EDIS module, I just added the extra two ignition drivers to the megasquirt so it could control the three coils directly. The way I did the loom makes it basically plug and play.

The factory ECU is still in place controlling everything except fuel and spark. (ie Auto, idle, gauges, fuel pump, fans, etc)


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Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 9:32 am 
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Nice ride. Anymore info on the car? Dyno results? 1/4 mile times? What other setup is he running?

 

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Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 1:34 pm 
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There is no more info. It's just a stock fairmont with a turbo fitted. I have only driven it about 1klm total with the megasquirt, so I'm not even sure what boost it is running yet as I didn't go over about 30% throttle. Once my brother sorts out the rego I can get stuck into tuning and see what it does.

Before the turbo and megasquirt it was just stock. I will post updates once I have done some tuning.

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Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 6:56 pm 
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Did you use MS1 or MS2 ?
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Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 9:22 pm 
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MS2 with the latest extra firmware.

 

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Posted: Mon May 19, 2008 10:50 pm 
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I have put together a guide for installing Megasquirt on an EF falcon. This is my first draft so let me know if you find any errors.

I got my car registered today so now I can start some real tuning.

 

 

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Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 12:36 pm 
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wow!.. i look forward to the REAL tuning and futre dyno graphs/time slips... :wink:
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ditto :D

 

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