Satisfying feeling when it starts for the first time with no major issues!

Damn right, just need to get around this Megasquirt tuning phase now.

 

Well done for getting it running, starting my td04(scooby) build soon have megasquirt to go on soon as it passes mot on Wednesday (hopefully) have had the stuff for nearly a year in a box in my living room so I can't forget about it!! Lol so choo choo for me too soon! Again well done , great work!

 

Well done for getting it running, starting my td04(scooby) build soon have megasquirt to go on soon as it passes mot on Wednesday (hopefully) have had the stuff for nearly a year in a box in my living room so I can't forget about it!! Lol so choo choo for me too soon! Again well done , great work!

Thanks for the kind comments roadrunner, hopefully this will provided some drive to get yours going.

Make sure you do a build thread, I like to snoop around on others methods h34r: .

 

Oh dude that's awesome. Really really want to Turbo now.

 

I asked the lady and she looked at me disapprovingly... "I thought you wanted to save..? <_<"

Stupid JDM woman.

 

Tell her to do one.... boost is more important than anything.

She should know that with her JDM ways, 'live by the turbo... die by the turbo'

 

Looks great man. Cant wait to see you at a drift day now. this is gonna be a weapon.

 

You not thought about up rating the cooling system?
I refitted and tidied up my ghetto coolant reroute today.
Bleeding knuckles to prove it.

 

Looks great man. Cant wait to see you at a drift day now. this is gonna be a weapon.

Cheers bud, yeah should be a good chuckle. Shame my skills will let it down.

You not thought about up rating the cooling system?
I refitted and tidied up my ghetto coolant reroute today.
Bleeding knuckles to prove it.

I have a MX5Dan radiator coming end of this month. I would like a coolant re-route, possibly look at getting one made up or go group buy.

Hard to fab one up?

 

I didn't fab shit, did need the engine out tho, grew some big balls and got out the drill and drilled some big holes in my head, tapped them for Ecu sensor and a horsetail barb, butchered the thermostat cover, fitted that to the back of the head, several bends of silicone and a long length of pipe from b&q to get it all connected, then a blanking plate for the old thermostat location.
Done.
Just need to get my mixing manifold chopped up and welded as it's annoying as fuck where it is.

 

Nice one! I remember my first turbo'd start up! pissed myself laughing the first time I drove it with the sucking and blowing off noises !

I was just looking at your wastegate actuator bracket, I'm trying to work out a decent solution for the t28 atm. How sturdy is that plate you've made?

My wastegate nipple pressure source is in the same orientation as yours and I think its too close to the manifold!

Have you wrapped the silicone hose and how's the tuning going?

I'm considering getting one of these http://shopping.kinugawaturbo.com/kinugawabilletadjustableturboactuatorgarrettdsmeclipse2gt25t28.aspx

ebay uk is £65 posted.. although this build is costing more than I thought it would

mine so far..

 

Love all those shinny oil lines that comes with a turbo set up

 

Nice one! I remember my first turbo'd start up! pissed myself laughing the first time I drove it with the sucking and blowing off noises !

I was just looking at your wastegate actuator bracket, I'm trying to work out a decent solution for the t28 atm. How sturdy is that plate you've made?

My wastegate nipple pressure source is in the same orientation as yours and I think its too close to the manifold!

Have you wrapped the silicone hose and how's the tuning going?

I'm considering getting one of these http://shopping.kinugawaturbo.com/kinugawabilletadjustableturboactuatorgarrettdsmeclipse2gt25t28.aspx

ebay uk is £65 posted.. although this build is costing more than I thought it would

mine so far..

Ah man I cant wait until it actually runs right, so I can rev it up without it cutting out. I sit in bed a night making turbo noises to the misses to see if it turns her on as well.... yet to happen .

Wrapped which silicone hose, they all are excluding the oil in?

Im not so sure on my bracket, it is pretty study and seems to be holding. Yet to have the actuator engage yet, so time will tell. If it comes to it I will make it an L shape and meet both bolts on the actuator, then weld another length onto it perpendicular, as to make it 3D if that makes sense. Should stiffen it up.

Looking good, got a build thread?

 

Nice one! I remember my first turbo'd start up! pissed myself laughing the first time I drove it with the sucking and blowing off noises !

I was just looking at your wastegate actuator bracket, I'm trying to work out a decent solution for the t28 atm. How sturdy is that plate you've made?

My wastegate nipple pressure source is in the same orientation as yours and I think its too close to the manifold!

Have you wrapped the silicone hose and how's the tuning going?

I'm considering getting one of these http://shopping.kinugawaturbo.com/kinugawabilletadjustableturboactuatorgarrettdsmeclipse2gt25t28.aspx

ebay uk is £65 posted.. although this build is costing more than I thought it would

mine so far..

Ah man I cant wait until it actually runs right, so I can rev it up without it cutting out. I sit in bed a night making turbo noises to the misses to see if it turns her on as well.... yet to happen .

Wrapped which silicone hose, they all are excluding the oil in?

Im not so sure on my bracket, it is pretty study and seems to be holding. Yet to have the actuator engage yet, so time will tell. If it comes to it I will make it an L shape and meet both bolts on the actuator, then weld another length onto it perpendicular, as to make it 3D if that makes sense. Should stiffen it up.

Looking good, got a build thread?

The small vacuum line going to the wastegate actuator.

Yeah on my td04 it just had steel sheet across the compressor housing to mount the actuator. I would prefer to move it to the comp housing bolts on the back(the ones you undo to clock it) as it'd just be a sheet.. an so you can read the writing on the housing aperbag: .

Nope never got round to making a build thread.. probably should have started one this time round...

What fuel an spark map are you using? If you've got rx8 injectors I could send you my map an it should get you running. However i'm running ms2v3, so not sure you can directly plug the tune in.

 

Ah, nope not wrapped it. Better do something to it I suppose.

I dont have any bolts on my compressor, so stuck with the outside edge. I like that one you linked, I could make the bracket up pretty easily.

I using Supra 7MGE's 305cc injectors, on MS1V3. I could really do with a decent base map, trying to find one on the internet but nothing as yet.

 

Pm me your email address and i'll send you some base maps. You'll have to change your req fuel to suit your injectors, but its pretty easy to calculate.

old injectors flow rate /new flow rate gives you the ratio then scale your req fuel by that.. I think thats how I did it when i changed from stock to rx8.

305/420 = ~0.73

When I switched I did that then I think I just altered the req fuel by a tiny amount until it started.

If nothing else it'll give you a decent spark table

 

Pm me your email address and i'll send you some base maps. You'll have to change your req fuel to suit your injectors, but its pretty easy to calculate.

old injectors flow rate /new flow rate gives you the ratio then scale your req fuel by that.. I think thats how I did it when i changed from stock to rx8.

305/420 = ~0.73

When I switched I did that then I think I just altered the req fuel by a tiny amount until it started.

If nothing else it'll give you a decent spark table

Cheers bud, I appreciate it. Will drop you my email address.

 

Oh yeah it was my mums 50th birthday on the weekend, so what does a family of car nuts get as a present.... an other car.

This absolute beauty of a Triumph Herald Convertible, which was her first car and and has always wanted one again.

 

Fuck sake I have zero idea whats this Megasquirt tuning is about.

Plugged it in, loaded a map onto it that towelie gave me, but when I turn the key to start the engine nothing happens and the radio dies. As it I have switched it off, but the lights are still on the MS1.

Think I need to do some reading on what is what!

 

Fuck sake I have zero idea whats this Megasquirt tuning is about.

Plugged it in, loaded a map onto it that towelie gave me, but when I turn the key to start the engine nothing happens and the radio dies. As it I have switched it off, but the lights are still on the MS1.

Think I need to do some reading on what is what!

Scratch that, fucking immobilisers!!!!!

 

errr...........lol?

:rofl:

 

FUCK MY LIFE.

Got it started on the original ECU, lovely plugged the MS1, started. Sweet........ oh is that smoke, yep thats smoke, yep thats smoke from the MS1. Left the fuel relay in!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Dude! I put a note on it saying pull it out.
Think it just toasts some diodes

 

Errrrr.........not lol.

 

Dude! I put a note on it saying pull it out.
Think it just toasts some diodes

Yeah I know, but in my tracing the not starting issue I had put it back in to run the original ECU. Forgot to pull it out.

Photos to come of electrical toast......................