The MegaSquirt Project has experienced explosive growth other the years, with hundreds of new MS installations occurring every week - a phenomenal success! MegaSquirt has been successfully used in all aspects of Internal Combustion engine applications including R&D, Industry, Race, and Research. The MS project has transformed itself from a simple R&D project into a full-featured mature engine control system. To reflect this the support structure has also changed to meet the needs of MegaSquirt Users.
Moving forward, the R&D forums for MegaSquirt project are in a read-only mode - no new forum posts are accepted.
However the forums will remain available for view, they still contain a wealth of information on how MegaSquirt works, how it is installed and used. Feel free to search the forums for information, facts, and overview.While the R&D forum traffic has slowed in recent years, this is not at all a reflection of Megasquirt users, which continue to grow year after year. What has changed is that the method of MegaSquirt support today has rapidly moved to Facebook, this is where the vast majority of interaction is happening now. For those not on Facebook the msextra forums is another place for product support. Finally, for product selection assistance, all of the MegaSquirt vendors are there to help you select a system, along with all of the required pieces to make it complete.
The ease of this venture is attributed to my son. I built the car and the custom wire harness, but he does all the computer work.
Using my sons MS, because his cars down for repair due to a little bit to much nitros, the car fire right up (after a few minutes cranking it with out the rotor - my bad) and ran good. for now we are using the stock distributor, HEP and coil. soon we will be going to wasted spark.
We (my son) will by tuning it over the next few weeks. My plans are to run 20+ psi boost and incorporate a rev limiter to help launch the car.
For the moment, we are running a TBI distributor with no window and only one hall pickup. The alternator is being controlled with a voltage regulator off an earlier year car. Fan control is handled with a spare output. The Megasquirt is a MS-II with a V3 PCB. We are running resistors on the low-Z injectors since I didn't want to mess with the PWM. The resistor pack is off a '83 Nissan Pulsar Turbo. I have modified version 2.870 code to provide boost control, nitrous control and launch rev limiting.
After a little tuning the drivability is perfect. My son used some new software and code that made it drive better then factory stock. I can't wait to start tuning for boost and get the thing to the track.