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Some more goodies I've been accumulating. Look at that ECU fly lead - this was made by Richard Welch of Autosport Wiring
http://www.autosportwiring.com/ Richard is an electrical/electronics maintenance guy for a major airline and his cottage business is producing these "better than OEM quality" patch harnesses. This is how you can get your XYZ ECU to plug into your ABC harness. No hacking the OEM harness anymore!
The other cool piece is the little cam sensor bracket. This comes from the 2UZ motor. When you decide you want to dump your dizzies and go crank trigger for the ignition, but still need to keep a cam sensor (for sequential injection) this is an elegant little way to do it. Of course it's still possible to use one of the old distributor brackets and just cut it and machine it, but this is smaller and looks better.
Then there's the dual channel (one channel for each bank of cylinders) AEM wideband AFR controller. I've looked at all the units on the market and none had the range this one does. This little puppy will read down to 0.55 Lambda (8.0:1 AFR on gasoline). All the rest stop at 10:1 or 9.5:1.
Why would anyone want to run an engine at 8:1? Excellent question, and I'd like to know the answer too, but I've got over $3500 in bills to prove what happens when you do.
When someone is breaking in a new motor and "thinks" they're "safe" because they're only running at 10:1 but the AFR controller is actually pegged because it can't read any lower, things get expensive quickly. That ain't gonna happen with this controller.
The last interesting bit is the little pump. That's a 15 bar, stainless steel pump with PWM controller that purportedly came out of a dialysis machine. Couldn't help myself when I saw it on eBay for $65, it was just too cool. Maybe it'll find a home in my M/W injection system, but if not, I've got a couple of little 12 bar pumps for expresso machines coming that might work. Who knows, if none of these work, maybe I can set up a dialysis center and serve expresso.... The UPS guy just shakes his head when he makes his deliveries to my house. He knows I'm a little nutty, but that dialysis pump really had him going.
The last pic is just the rope, soap & dope to wire the motor up. I can't say enough good about McMaster Carr & Co.
www.mcmaster.com. WHATEVER you need for whatever project you're doing, they have it, and if you're in the lower 48, you can get it the next day. This place makes Home Depot, Lowe's and all the Ace Hardwares look amateurish. I'm soooo glad these people don't have a retail store here in Houston - if they did, my family would never see me.
