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Old 03-17-2010, 02:56 PM
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Very cool project. You're using MSD 6LS ignition box and a Megasquirt ECU instead of the factory ECU, eh? Please post some detailed info on how this works out for you. The guy a share a warehouse with put the Megasquirt on his RX7 and on his 914 Porsche and the MS has been largely a debacle. He has probably 100hrs in building the wiring harness, logging data, fussing with this and that parameter, only to have the MS somehow loose control of the timing on the Mazda (locked up around 60deg, obviously not a good thing for a Turbo car), which ended up cracking the "block" or whatever it is that the rotary engine has. The MS on the Porsche needed 100's of hrs of troubleshooting to get working. I still think the Webbers run better.

My next project I think will be a 1969 Trans Am clone with a nasty LSX engine and T56. I'd like to be able to tweak the computer with a Megasquirt in real time rather then dumping a few Benjamin's and mailing the factory ECU off every time I upgrade or tweak the engine. If you can pull this off I'd be interested to see how you do it exactly, which version of MS you use, which sensors, etc. Thanks for posting the conversion thread.

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