zorak

By saying piggyback you meen controlling 4 extra injectors under the org intake manifold og just 2 in front of the trottle?

Have thougt of bying MS and run piggyback style for the simplicity...

Jesper Andersen

GimpyCivic

Does that Escort use EDIS? If not you can prolly easily adapt it... then you'd be golden to use all of the Megasquirt.

zorak

It have Edis 4 (i think) (the ford escort is from 1991.. Digital ignition and all that..

Jesper Andersen

GimpyCivic

You're good to go then sir, check out the MegaSquirt-n-Spark Extra code base, it supports EDIS for ignition and fuel.

aero

I run MSnS Extra using the new Hi-res code. Fuel and spark.

danman

msns-extra for almost 2 years now, setting it up on a Ford that already has EDIS was too easy

Tom-Guy

I poked a bit at a v3.0 running an older v1.0 MCU today, installed in a 3.4 liter V6 powered second generation MR2 w/ .60 T3/T04E.

I have to say I'm pretty impressed. I'm not 100% enthused about a few small aspects of the GUI interface, but there is a LOT of seriously good ---- available. To support advanced functions you need to be able to build and wire some small special circuits yourself, but for a dedicated DIYer it's an awesome piece.

GimpyCivic

Ya, esp with the v3.0 board it's pretty damn good. The V2.2 and earlier were pretty easy to cook if you were about 12 beers to the wind while wiring up a car (oops!) ... if you use the relay board with the V2.2 its alright though. But also the V3.0 has all the VR sensor ---- you need already to run a Honda, MR2 or whatever without a stupid MSD box with the stock dizzy.

I've been considering making an EDIS ring setup for Honda's though, I adapted EDIS to a couple other cars and it's no biggie. Not sure how exactly I'd like to attach the ring to the stock harmonic balancer yet.

It's one of those things, the Honda ECU's are so damn hacked it almost doesn't make sense... but sometimes doing something 'different' is fun. Plus it would be cool to see the distributor not there on my car. A feat that I can't believe nobody (like Neptune or Hondata) hasn't yet accomplished.

Anyway I'm ranting.

Tom-Guy

This guy took a $12 crank sensor ring and modified it to fit the OEM pulley with hand tools and some savvy, you savvy?

It's a pretty fun vehicle. "Your intake manifold looks like it was made out of a piece of fence post" "That's because I made it out of a piece of fence post" But everything on it is pretty sound... you don't get many people who understand that free is a quality overcoming many faults AND are willing to drop huge amounts of money or labor to get the important things done (the mounts to sling the 3.4 V6 are homemade, etc).

GimpyCivic

I've used $12 Escort rings before on a BMW M10 project, but that wouldn't work on my SBF RX7 I had (the diameter of the Ford 302 balancer is too big for the VR sensor to get a shot)... so I drew up some rings that fit on the stock harmonic balancer (50oz imbalance Ford 302). I could've swapped to newer Ford Explorer timing cover/balancer ... as they had EDIS, but that would've cost me time/money I didn't have.



I wish I could find the finished pictures, but it worked out pretty good. I used a MegaJolt Jr. Lite and kept it carb'd on fuel. As you can see one of them I slotted so I could play with advancing timing, but ended up making a VR sensor rig that was easier to advance / retard with.

So anyway, if I can't get an Escort ring to fit I was thinking about just drawing up another ring for Honda balancer/pulley.