Hi All,
Have been looking in here from time to time and have finally registered and joined you all. I am about to begin my eighth decade of being alive in one month, but don't let that fool ya. I still spend most of my waking hours in the shed building stuff. Have worked as a mechanic (cars and bikes) most of my life and for the last 12 years have been building custom trikes, which brings me to the relevance of my participation on this forum.
The current project is a 1uzfe engined trike, out of a 93 Celsior. The motor I am told has about 150k on it and to date I have not started it. I bought it in a front cut that had been ratted for a few bits and then left in the weather for a couple of years, so the plastics have gone brittle and fragile, and the alloy bits looked hideous. I've cleaned it up pretty good now though.
Originally I was going to pay a guy $1000 to hook up the original computer to the mangled loom to get it running, but I decided to spend a bit more (not much) and use a Megasquirt 11 for the engine, and the Megashift with GPIO for the trans. and have a go at doing it myself. Getting rid of a load of ugly wiring, brackets and tubing is a bonus because the engine will be fully exposed and has to look pretty.
First job is getting the engine going. They tell you when you buy one of these units that it's a DIY set up, and that you have to do you homework in order to get a successful outcome. That's what I've been doing for weeks, reading and absorbing everything I can find on the internet and You tube. I'm starting to get a fairly clear picture of what needs to be done.
The wiring is fairly straight forward except for a couple of things, (hooking up the 1UZ 4 wire TPS and the 6 wire IAC) but I'm sure that someone will know how to deal with this.
Because the engine is not in a car that has to be emissions compliant, I am able to simplify it's function substantially. There are a lot of small coolant and vacuum hoses that can probably be dispensed with once I find out exactly what their function was.
About another week and I'll be ready to try and fire it up.
Have been looking in here from time to time and have finally registered and joined you all. I am about to begin my eighth decade of being alive in one month, but don't let that fool ya. I still spend most of my waking hours in the shed building stuff. Have worked as a mechanic (cars and bikes) most of my life and for the last 12 years have been building custom trikes, which brings me to the relevance of my participation on this forum.
The current project is a 1uzfe engined trike, out of a 93 Celsior. The motor I am told has about 150k on it and to date I have not started it. I bought it in a front cut that had been ratted for a few bits and then left in the weather for a couple of years, so the plastics have gone brittle and fragile, and the alloy bits looked hideous. I've cleaned it up pretty good now though.
Originally I was going to pay a guy $1000 to hook up the original computer to the mangled loom to get it running, but I decided to spend a bit more (not much) and use a Megasquirt 11 for the engine, and the Megashift with GPIO for the trans. and have a go at doing it myself. Getting rid of a load of ugly wiring, brackets and tubing is a bonus because the engine will be fully exposed and has to look pretty.
First job is getting the engine going. They tell you when you buy one of these units that it's a DIY set up, and that you have to do you homework in order to get a successful outcome. That's what I've been doing for weeks, reading and absorbing everything I can find on the internet and You tube. I'm starting to get a fairly clear picture of what needs to be done.
The wiring is fairly straight forward except for a couple of things, (hooking up the 1UZ 4 wire TPS and the 6 wire IAC) but I'm sure that someone will know how to deal with this.
Because the engine is not in a car that has to be emissions compliant, I am able to simplify it's function substantially. There are a lot of small coolant and vacuum hoses that can probably be dispensed with once I find out exactly what their function was.
About another week and I'll be ready to try and fire it up.
