Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2006 23:40:45 -0400
Reply-To: Sudhir Desai <sudhir.desai@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Sudhir Desai <sudhir.desai@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: INLINE MEGASQUART
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I did the MS swap into my WBX in a weekend (outside of building the ecu itself).
The hard part is finding a nice place to mount it. (If you have an 83-84.5).
I ended up putting it in a nice hard to reach place. lol.
There's the mount pic. :)
http://pictures.rawsuds.com/d/11315-2/ms_mount_location.JPG
Sudhir
On 9/8/06, dooley <pdooley@gte.net> wrote:
> The beauty of Megasquirt is it can be run on almost any engine, not just the
> I4 VW. MS is relatively easy to adapt to the WBX engine, the fuel delivery
> part(injectors, rails, fuel pump, lines, etc..) is already there.
> You can even calibrate MS to use the factory VW sensors.
> No more AFM, the MS has a built in MAP sensor for speed density operation.
> You can even run the ignition from MS, all you need is the Hall sender input
> from the WBX distributor.
> Bear in mind this is a true stand-alone system, with programmable fuel and
> spark tables on the fly with a laptop computer.
>
> Granted, this is not a weekend project for a novice wrench, the average
> person will need to spend many hours reading the MS manual and other
> resources, and more time installing and tuning the system.
> The benefit is a much better understanding of how fuel injection works along
> with the ability to source inexpensive, reliable parts and make them work
> with your custom ignition and fuel maps for optimal results.
> The benefit for me was to be able to run forced induction on my Rabbit
> pickup without meltdown.
>
> The best place to start for more info is: http://www.megasquirt.info/
>
>
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> Sent: Friday, September 08, 2006 10:06 AM
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> Subject: INLINE MEGASQUART
>
> Well for all you inline 4 cyl. people hear is a Megasquart
> for you engine. My inline is running great these days, but
> if I was to do it all over this guys alreasdy got it all figured
> out. Click on his signiture for a ton of info.........
>
> http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=2801727
>
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