Lextreme II
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Anyone try it yourself. Seems like its DIY ECU. Feedback?
Its standalone.Lextreme said:Nice ride.... beautiful.... So it is consider a stand alone or a piggyback?
Thank you. It's not mine though.. I just built and tuned the megasquirt. I also helped with mounting the ford throttle body and modifiying the fuel rails for different injectors. The owner of the car is very happy with all aspects of the performance.. I have done around a dozen megasquirts on a few different motors, and they have all turned out very nice. This marine 1uz doesn't have the dual dissys, so I used edis and put the pair of ford coils under the intake manifold. The next one I do will have the dissys, as the vvti street motors have weaker rods. The marine one has the earlier rods, but these motors are hard to find and expensive.Lextreme said:Nice ride.... beautiful.... So it is consider a stand alone or a piggyback?
Yes, I have been in electronics for 35 years, and I am very good with mechanical things of any sort. That being said, you can buy a ms v2.2 with a ms1 processor built for 240 usd ( no! not from me). There is a lot of help on the forums. YES, you will spend a lot of time reading. You will also learn a LOT about FI. Regarding the photo's and assembly,Zuffen said:Megasquirt comes in a variety of forms.
The two main things to consider with it is do you buy the unassembled kit or the assembled kit.
You can buy Megasquirt as a stack of parts and assemble them yourself. To do this you would need to be very proficient with electronics and soldering. Take a look at the photos and ask yourself if you could solder all those components correctly and in the correct place. Can you identify the different components.
I've heard a lot of good things about Megasquirt but you almost always find it was built and installed by some one who knew all about electronics.
MegaSquirt can pretty much run anything.Lextreme said:Interesting and would this computer support 1UZFE? My brother is an Electronic Technician and I am pretty good with basic electronic work too. I would like to explore little more about it. I am sure other members have the same questions too. Would it support MAP?
Hah, yeah, i have an Adv Diploma in Electonic EngineeringZuffen said:MWP,
My suspicions about you were right. An electronics man.
I think the megasquirt is excellent value for money and it certainly does the job. If my old Dad was still with us I would be running it too as he was an electronics guru as well.
Maybe you could sell assembled Megasquirts to members. At least that way they would know they are getting a system that suits the 1/2/3 UZ-FE.
As an alternative perhaps you could do a short article on which one suits our engine best.
Information such as you have is priceless and saves members wasting money on the wrong gear.