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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. |
Michelj13 |
Jul 9 2015, 07:26 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 83 Joined: 29-May 04 From: Torrance, CA Member No.: 2,122 Region Association: Southern California |
The project will be waiting for you when you are ready. I was in the same situation a couple of years ago. I needed to move, and had too much to do for about a 18 months. During this time, I tough a lot about my MS project and changes that I wanted to make.
I like the kit you got from Mark. It really simplifies things and makes it much easier with ready made harness and really cool coil bracket. I really struggled with mounting mine. I Installed the 36-1 wheel the other way than you did, hence my zero timing is at 61 degrees. I think isn't it that way because it was more centered over the sensor. It works fine either way though. The microsquirt is a good choice too. Small size, nice connector, nice logic level outputs for the ls coils. In my case, going the LS2 coil route was the best decisions. My USB communication has been SOLID ever since. Knowing what I know now, I would not use the MS relay board and would wire as much as i could directly and use the car's OE relays for fuel pump, ECU power, etc. It's really amazing how well the Megasquirt system works! I'm already thinking about my next MS project ( a 924 with 1.8t engine swap running MS 3) Good luck with house and baby! |
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