Goodbye CIS-III, the Haltech IG5 is in!

[Jim Green]

--- Marc Swanson <mswanson at sonitrol.net> wrote:
> >
> > I hear you, but the closest thing I could find is
> the
> > Link ECU at ~$800 and that will do individual
> coils on
> > a five cyl.
>
>
> sounds like a pretty cool ECU but I have yet to hear
> BTDT on it (which
> is why I went 034).  It will be cool to hear how
> Ken's luck on it turns
> out.

I was real close to getting one, but I added it up,
and by time you buy the ECU and the serial unit,
you're at $1320.  I have no reason to change my fuel
system, and I couldn't justify the extra cost and
hastle (still have to do a timing pin for the
invividual coils) to change systems.  Honestly, do you
really need direct fire for 350hp?  It would be nice,
but I doubt that it's necessary.  Then you start
getting into transmission and other issues if you get
too crazy.  I'd rather spend the money on a header and
better cam.

> > Try it out, but I have a you'll want to put the MC
> > ignition back.  Hopefully you still have your
> flywheel
> > with the timing pins?  I should have said that I
> would
> > have tried a MAC-11 if it didn't involve putting a
> pin
> > in the flywheel.
>
> nah, I have no desire to go back to the MAC ignition
> setup.  Even with
> all of the MAC 11 electronics in place you still
> need a set of pins
> driven into your cam to signal the fuel ECU as it
> expects one pulse per
> cam revolution per cylinder.  I didn't want to have

True.

 to do that as it
> seemed a bit hackish to me.  Whatever setup I end up
> using will either
> use a set pins on the flywheel or the 5-window style
> of audi
> distributors for signaling (like used for CIS III).
> I hear the linkplus
> is supposed to be able to deal with the Motronic
> style of ignition
> timing (one flywheel pin to indicate x degreese btdc
> cyl. #1, then the
> teeth on the flywheel and the single window
> distributor to keep things
> running) .. Ken, how are you coming along?

It's cool that we're all doing this, I'm not saying
mine is the best system, but it's what I've ended up
with and it works great.  I've came to the point with
the car where I have to stop dumping money into it at
some point, and I haven't even visited my brakes yet.
Have fun everyone!

=====
Jim Green
'89 90tq 034EFI, Haltech IG5
http://www.geocities.com/jeg1976/car_home.html

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