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2056 microsquirt, Its alive! Now I have to tune it |
peteyd |
May 28 2015, 08:10 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 707 Joined: 27-March 08 From: Elora, Ontario, Canada Member No.: 8,858 Region Association: Canada |
I had my car on the road for only two summers until I wanted to get a more reliable engine. I was not too familiar with the microsquirt, or megasquirt system, but when Mark started to offer a kit I knew that it would be a great starting point. I also had followed the progress of McMarks, rwilner and Zachs conversions and figured they had done enough trail blazing that it would be a piece of cake.
I started to piece together my own little manuel of pictures and notes from other threads and came up with my own little DIY powerpoint. So hopefully this thread can benefit others and hopefully these guys dont mind that I am reposting some of their photos. I didnt just decide to buy the system on a whim though. It all started one night when I was driving home on the highway and I heard a pretty large bang. I had just replaced my oil pressure relief valve with the new tangerine product and thought my engine had just exploded! I pulled over and realized after digging around that my #3 spark plug blew out of the threads. I have a head temp sensor under the plug, so Im thinking that it wasnt turned in all the way and the pressure was too great for the threads to hold the plug. BTW the pressure relief valve is a great product That winter I pulled the engine and then the head and put a time-sert in #3 After bolting the heads back up, I noticed that my valve train geometry was off. So at that point I decided to measure and cut custom pushrods for the proper geometry. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aE-TJxlE7Ck And since I had the engine out, and Chris had just come out with another great engine product, I figured what the Hell, and bought his SS pushrod tubes and installed them. At this point I had been thinking about McMarks EFI kit seriously, and decided to pull the trigger. I ordered the kit from Mark @ Original Customs. I patiently waited and my kit finally came! Im using the stock 2L plenums and throttle body. Here is what came in the kit. (photos from Zach) I got the same stuff. |
peteyd |
Jun 16 2015, 02:06 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 707 Joined: 27-March 08 From: Elora, Ontario, Canada Member No.: 8,858 Region Association: Canada |
After getting all the wiring and fuel lines hooked up, I added fuel to make sure there were no leaks. When that checked out I set out to get all my sensors calibrated.
I hooked up my laptop and detected the MS This is what my gauge cluster looked like before I started getting things calibrated. I then calibrated my TPS After this, things went wrong! I attempted to calibrate the CHT sensor. I put in the correct numbers given to me by Mark, and then clicked "write to controller" I dont know if this was the correct step, but somehow the firmware disappeared from the MS unit. I attempted to reload the firmware but it hung up every time. I tried a dozen times but nothing worked. I moved on to other things and I think I was able to get the MAP sensor calibrated. After the firmware was lost it wouldnt connect to the MS unit anymore, so my night was kinda pooched. I am going to have to reload that firmware before anything else happens. |
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