Well, I'm not sure if it was a good thing or not, but I took the opportunity while I was laid up a bit after the knee surgery and the wisdom teeth yanking to put my MegaSquirt ECU together... NOt sure if doing while on mild pain meds was a smart idea or not..but we'll see. :crazy: It's modded to run the TFI and use the IAC for warm-up only. It's also got the flyback board mod (first pic) so I can use the stock-type impedance injectors.
My laptop is dead :toilet: , so I need to wait until I get another to fully test it, but the LEDs flash as they should using the little tester...so we'll see.
Gonna build the relay box and a new engine harness (get rid of 20+ yr old wiring) before it goes into the car. I still have alot to sort out and the fun will really begin when I get into the tuning. :hick:
I read an article in Car Craft awhile back about the DIY megasquirt EEC. Sounds pretty cool. Good luck with it.
Joe
so what's the deal and how's it work ?
how do you use that inplace of your ECU ??
where can i get it ?!
http://www.megasquirt.info/
sounds decent...let me know how it goes
This is ed cool. If I had time to finish all of my other projects I would get right into this and try it myself. Hopefully some day I will be able to.
Awesome.
I was thinking about fuel injecting the 200 cube six in my zephyr with megasquirt and some left over injectors from an HO swap. Its a pretty simple setup but requires your own custom tuning & time.
Matt/nitro - You need to talk with Bird351, since I see you guys both share an interest and love for the trusty I-6.
Not to derail this any further, but couldn't you also try adapting an EEC from a SEFI 3.8 to the 200/3.3?
Heh.. I probably killed a good hour or two reading over the MegaSquirt site again yesterday. I blame Chuck. :p
I think by the time you beat your head on the wall trying to sort out the adaptation of the 3.8 EEC to the 3.3, you'd have gotten a MS to run on it.
If you've only spent an hour or so on the MS site(s)...you haven't even scratched the surface ;)
I've spent time on it before. Yesterday was mainly reading the section on boost and the MS. It's one of those things I read every once in awhile when I remember it, or someone reminds me of it.. (hence the blame part) :p kinda like that "Steve, Don't Eat It! (http://www.thesneeze.com/mt-archives/cat_steve_dont_eat_it.php)" site. :p :yuck:
Glad to see someone is playing around with the MS. I was looking into driving a CFI on a 5.0L with it, to play in NHRA's Stock Class. Let us know how you do. Good luck, Fred
This is the first of several possible projects I have use for M/S. Hell, even my daily driver turbo Ranger would benefit from it. I'd much rather be using EDIS as the ignition on the set-up in the Tbird, but I'm not ready to get into converting this engine over yet...so TFI it is for now. I can honestly see myself with 3-4 cars w/ MS on it when it's all said and done...hell even all of them, but I've got to start somewhere.
I know this is off topic a bit, but the 3.8 EEC may not work out well on a straight six b/c they were batch fire (this is the case with at least the early speed density systems; I don't know about the later ones at all).