Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 15:46:44 -0800
Reply-To: David Marshall <mailinglist@FASTFORWARD.CA>
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From: David Marshall <mailinglist@FASTFORWARD.CA>
Subject: Re: 1985 Vanagon - Ford Focus Engine alternative
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Jim and list
To connect a TDI harness to the vangon would result in
connecting the following:
Necessary to have a running engine
that will tell the user if something is wrong oil and water wise:
1 12V always on
1 12V on when key is on
1
12V when starter is on
1 Ground
1 Plug for
accelerator pedal (group of five wires)
2 Oil pressure wires
1 Water temp
-----------------------------------
8
connections - 13 wires
Really everything is plugged into the
round connector in the engine bay and a cable to the front that plugs into
the accelerator
If you want cruise control
1 Bake
pedal
1 Clutch Pedal
1 VSS from speedometer
-----------------------------------
3 connections - 3
wires
If you want to see the MIL and GIL it would be two more
wires to the instrument cluster. Tach is another wire... really
can't think of much else.
Really the wire harness isn't going
to be an issue. I assume you know what you are doing and you would
had the customer a completed wiring harness that they just plug in.
Can't see why there would be any more connections than the TDI.
David Marshall
http://www.hasenwerk.ca
http://www.fastforward.ca
Box 4153, Quesnel BC, Canada V2J
3J2
On Fri, January 11, 2008 14:49, Jim Akiba wrote:
>
Wow someone brings up complexity.. good good. No you're absolutely
> right adding more thing increases risk and increases the chances
of
> failure. However the zetec conversion itself is so simple,
that adding
> what we need to offer outstanding power to weight
and great power
> levels STILL keeps things simpler than what's
out there. That's the
> arguement for having both power adders.
The turbo is more efficient,
> but comes at the cost of
simplicity.. there is another cooling system
> for the
intercooler, and there is more intake plumbing, and there is
> an
oil feed and return. The supercharger on the other hand while not
> offering the same output levels of efficiency of the turbo,
still
> offers great torque in the low end because it's a
positive
> displacement blower, and doesn't have any additional
oil lines intake
> plumbing etc.. just an extra idler and longer
belt, both still widely
> available.
>
> We only
have 27 wires in the main harness for either implementation,
> how
many in the R-TDI? Scott how many in the subies?
>
> Jim
Akiba
>
>
>
> On 1/11/08, David
Marshall <mailinglist@fastforward.ca> wrote:
>> So let me
get this straight...
>
>> Adding things to make an
engine more complex isn't upping the odds that
>> something is
going to fail because to have more stuff to fail? Cool!
>