 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
justfordima
Technical Contributor
Age:22
Posts: 2791
Joined: 06 Nov 2004
Location: Sydney NSW, Australia
View User Gallery (7)
|
 Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 3:54 pm Post subject: |
 |
|
Interesting read that...
unclewoja - how did you go about making a harness, did you just splice into the ECU within the cabin? or did you just run all new wires all together??
If you splice into them, and keep the ecu still there, the trip computer would be fine?
Cheers |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
4.9 EF Futura
Moderator
Age:27
Posts: 8658
Joined: 05 Nov 2004
Location: Adelaide CBD SA, Australia
View User Gallery (37)
|
| Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 3:59 pm Post subject: |
|
|
I doubt it. You will essentially be removing injector pulse width control from EEC and assigning this to megasquirt.
EEC will still be calculating injector pulse width as it does now, but the injector will not be conncted as megasquirt will be controlling them. The trip computer will be based on the calculations of EEC.... for it to be accurate, you would need the injector calcs of MS to be used in the trip meter.
So it will most likely work.... but the figures wont be accurate. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
justfordima
Technical Contributor
Age:22
Posts: 2791
Joined: 06 Nov 2004
Location: Sydney NSW, Australia
View User Gallery (7)
|
| Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 4:02 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Yeah, point taken... Thats what I was thinking. Meh, they aren't that accurate anyway.
Cheers |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
v8fordman351
Fordmods - Getting Side Ways
Age:36
Posts: 829
Joined: 07 Nov 2004
Location: yarrawonga VIC, Australia
View User Gallery (12)
|
| Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 4:34 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| WTF is a megasquirt and what does it do? |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
justfordima
Technical Contributor
Age:22
Posts: 2791
Joined: 06 Nov 2004
Location: Sydney NSW, Australia
View User Gallery (7)
|
| Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 4:36 pm Post subject: |
|
|
lol... check out www.megasquirt.info
Its basically a standalone unit, which controls the injection of fuel. With newer version controlling spark aswell. It has all these other cool feature, like fan control, water injection control, and some other other s**t. It is tuneable in real time, and has ALOT of support for it.
It comes as a build it yourself kit. You do the soldering, and put it in, download the tables onto it, and then tune it. Realtime if you want. helps if you got a laptop, or a in car computer.
Cheers |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
v8fordman351
Fordmods - Getting Side Ways
Age:36
Posts: 829
Joined: 07 Nov 2004
Location: yarrawonga VIC, Australia
View User Gallery (12)
|
| Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 4:39 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| justfordima wrote: | lol... check out www.megasquirt.info
Its basically a standalone unit, which controls the injection of fuel. With newer version controlling spark aswell. It has all these other cool feature, like fan control, water injection control, and some other other s**t. It is tuneable in real time, and has ALOT of support for it.
It comes as a build it yourself kit. You do the soldering, and put it in, download the tables onto it, and then tune it. Realtime if you want. helps if you got a laptop, or a in car computer.
Cheers |
thanks for that but sounds like ill put it in the to hard basket lol sounds way over my head dam i miss carbys lol |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
justfordima
Technical Contributor
Age:22
Posts: 2791
Joined: 06 Nov 2004
Location: Sydney NSW, Australia
View User Gallery (7)
|
| Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 4:42 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Well, its actually all easy. Hard part for the non electronically minded person would be putting it together.
The greatest advantages of the MegaSquirt would be the cheap price, and the huge support for them. There's heaps of people that have done it, and its worked very nice for them. Its also good for learning about how all these things work.
Cheers |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
unclewoja
Fordmods - Getting Side Ways
Age:26
Posts: 533
Joined: 12 Jan 2005
Location: Melbourne VIC, Australia
View User Gallery (0)
|
| Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 5:43 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| justfordima wrote: | Interesting read that...
unclewoja - how did you go about making a harness, did you just splice into the ECU within the cabin? or did you just run all new wires all together??
If you splice into them, and keep the ecu still there, the trip computer would be fine?
Cheers |
Well, I put it on my Triumph TR7 V8 which had a old Lucas injection system on it. As the Lucas system was fuel only, all I did was get an old ECU, take all the electronics out of it, put the megasquirt in and made an adaptor to go from the megasquirt DB37 plug to the Lucas 35 pin SCART connection.
Now, DB37 plugs are a dime adozen from Jaycar or any other electronics place. So, if I were putting one in the Falcon I'd figure out what wires control injection stuff on teh EEC V. Cut them and solder on a Female DB37 to the wires connected to the EEC. Then, on the other wires solder on a Male DB37. Now, with that setup, the Male DB37 plugs into the megasquirt, and if that goes belly up or doesn't work for some reason, all you do is connect the two DB37 plugs together and you've got your EEC back!
Simple!! |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
janek
Fordmods - Getting Side Ways
Posts: 413
Joined: 14 Nov 2004
Location: Brisbane Most of the time/Sydney Some of the time QLD, Australia
View User Gallery (0)
|
| Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2005 8:57 am Post subject: Re: EOI: Small megasquirt group buy |
|
|
| ive been looking at ms for a long, long time... id prolly go te whole kit n caboodle |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
| |
| (c)2002-2008 Matti Jones and Brad Evans |
[36 queries :: 0.04375 seconds ]
|
|
