Time to meet Rotary NARP, welcome to the restart of my project Options

[Rotary'14]

Hi All,

I've been lurking around for a while now and felt it's time to get off my A$$ and put a teener back into my life. I went and rolled my last project car out of my ma's garage, a 1974 2.0 914. It has some rust issues in the rear trunk and the PO had some crappy repairs done to it, but I'm not complaining. This car has been sitting for over 10 years in my ma's garage. This would be my second rotary 914. The first rotary 914 I ever had was over 10 years ago, and it survived stop and go traffic and a vacation to SF california, I live in LA. It was my daily driver to my first "real" job for 3 years. But 3 years of daily driving really took it's toll on my poor 914 and lack of parking forced me to send it to the autobahn in the sky. I kept all the parts and I'm starting the project again.

[soloracer]

One of the downsides to the Microtech is that the unit has to be configured in Australia. If you buy one you have to tell them what motor it is for and what you are running with it. If at a later date you decide to change engines or want the unit to control something else (like a BAC valve for example) you have to send the unit back to them. It seems ludicrious to me that you would have to keep sending the unit back to get it configured when the whole point of buying a stand alone is to get away from having a pre-configured system (ie: chips....make some changes need new chips burned.) Also the Microtech does not have the same resolution as the Haltech so the control of fuel, etc is not as precise. A friend of mine bought a Microtech based on the reported ease of use and quickly changed to a Haltech. Most of the guys running Microtech in Australia do so on their drag race cars where all you need to do is dump the fuel in for a short run. Having a stable idle or good transition from on/off throttle is not as important and you can get away with less. I'm not saying the Microtech won't work. I'm just saying that the Microtech has several built in faults that the Haltech does not have and it costs the same. As for the Perfect Power units - I have an SMT-6 for my 944 Turbo but in the 7 years that I have been involved with guys in the rotary community I do not know of anyone who has used the Perfect Power unit. I'm assuming there must be a reason for this. It may work fine but I don't expect there to be much support for you if you need assistance with tuning and installation. Just my $0.02

lybones: Really nice cars you have and the quality of your installs looks top rate. I will aspire to get my install in as neat and clean as you did. Good work Ollie!