Megasquirt in my 16v by JonnyPhenomenon

3 minute(s) of a 208 minute read

3-17-2008

I have a computer in the car already. not a laptop, but a 7" touchscreen lcd in my center console. works great as a GPS, and I have some 40+ gigs of mp3s on there too. 

I figure I can leave the megasquirt software running on it and log all the time..

Im not that excited about paying for the controller and having yet another guage in my dash.. I got a friend who is going to Give me a wideband sensor, if megasquirt can interface with it without need of the other 200$ controller and guage, then I might opt for that. 

I have to find ways to cut corners, without doing it wrong...

what can be done to an injector to adjust them? can they be taken apart and tuned? I thought they were just so and that was that...

yup. been reading like crazy. lots of good info. lots of overwhelming info too. heh. my head hurts.

I think I am going to do this in stages. instead of shelling out all the extra money for the trigger wheel and VR sensor and coil, Ill just use the hall sensor on the stock dizzy. ultimately I want to get rid of the dizzy, but one thing at a time...

Ive rebuilt my share of leaky dizzy's - which is the main reason I want to get rid of it. 

come to think of it, I even wrote a DIY on how to rebuild a dizzy on here. 

I can still use MS and spark to drive my ignition coil with dizzy cant I? 

as for the wideband, - I dont understand what the point of it is if it isnt patched into megasquirt all the time. is it just for getting the tuning right to start and then its ignored? I havent got that far in the megamanual...

I think you lost me there. what is the point of using the stock ICM And the hyfire 6a at the same time? wouldnt it be one or the other?

I thought the whole point of getting megasquirt and Spark was to let the megasquirt ECU handle everything. now you are saying I should get another 130$ ignition system as well?

maybe I am overlooking something..

I am going to go sink my teeth into the ingition section of the megasuirt manual. be back in a couple days 

ahh. I got it now 

not much to the stock icm. 

how big is that 6a?