Cheapest engine management
01-06-2003, 03:18 AM
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Re:Cheapest engine management
Originally Posted by shortyz
AFC hack.
SMC+
or megasquirt
megasquirt intrigues me... yes.. mucho
SMC+
or megasquirt
megasquirt intrigues me... yes.. mucho
http://www.sdsefi.com/eic.html
Have you seen this? Steve use's this on his Turbo DX..
Jeff
01-06-2003, 07:10 AM
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Re:Cheapest engine management
300 is more than you can pick up a MSD btm and used afc for....
thats basically like what they use in the F-Max kits right? i heard alot of people ditching that setup but how do you feel it works?
i think the cheapest possible without building your own controller would me the SMC+ for like 119 then a set of 450 cc injectors for 50 or less... this gives you fuel adjustment only in 1k increments and does nothing to control computer advanced timing in the upper rpms however so i wouldnt run this alone with high boost. '
with an FMU you also have to add a fuel pump so thats about 200 bux for both but isnt tunable except for changing the discs
also i wouldnt go on any onld a/f ratio gauge alone, only use that as a base then get yourself on a dyno to tune with a wideband. very much worth the money....
thats basically like what they use in the F-Max kits right? i heard alot of people ditching that setup but how do you feel it works?
i think the cheapest possible without building your own controller would me the SMC+ for like 119 then a set of 450 cc injectors for 50 or less... this gives you fuel adjustment only in 1k increments and does nothing to control computer advanced timing in the upper rpms however so i wouldnt run this alone with high boost. '
with an FMU you also have to add a fuel pump so thats about 200 bux for both but isnt tunable except for changing the discs
also i wouldnt go on any onld a/f ratio gauge alone, only use that as a base then get yourself on a dyno to tune with a wideband. very much worth the money....
01-06-2003, 08:10 AM
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Re:Cheapest engine management
Well if your car was OBD0, there is a current solution http://www.ghettodyne.com/
Supposedly in the next release (soon) it will be supporting boost... which kicks ***! And is the fuel mgmt setup I'll be using.
-Henry
Supposedly in the next release (soon) it will be supporting boost... which kicks ***! And is the fuel mgmt setup I'll be using.
-Henry
01-06-2003, 08:50 AM
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Re:Cheapest engine management
Originally Posted by AbaZ
01-06-2003, 01:53 PM
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Re:Cheapest engine management
Megasquirt sucks, a friend of mine runs it on his turbo Volvo, and another friend runs it on his turbo Rabbit GTI, neither has ever run right, and we've tuned the ---- out of both of them.
SDS is pretty much the middle. It's not as pricey as the TecIIs and TecIIIs, or any of the other high end stuff, but it works really well. The downfall is it doesn't do datalogging which is REALLY nice for tuning.
Anything else costs to much.
SDS is pretty much the middle. It's not as pricey as the TecIIs and TecIIIs, or any of the other high end stuff, but it works really well. The downfall is it doesn't do datalogging which is REALLY nice for tuning.
Anything else costs to much.
