[urq] Megasquirt conversion

Patrick Carlier p.carlier at pandora.be
Wed May 2 07:27:41 PDT 2012


Forget it ,

Mr Kraus made me draw up a list of all parts I had available ,
then  told me he already had all the fuel parts , so I offered him the
electronics at a considerable discount .
Resulting in a sudden silence .....

Some people .....





----- Original Message ----- 
From: "audiqtrocp" <audiqtrocp at aol.com>
To: "Stephen Kraus" <ub3ratl4sf00 at gmail.com>
Cc: "Patrick Carlier" <p.carlier at pandora.be>; <urq at audifans.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2012 4:23 PM
Subject: Re: [urq] Megasquirt conversion


Today it's a little easier to obtain the mechanical parts for an EFI swap. 
Companies like 034 sell the fuel rail and the injector inserts...

Sent from my iPhone for, the one with the bigger Gee Bee's

On Apr 26, 2012, at 22:57, Stephen Kraus <ub3ratl4sf00 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well I'm getting ready to do the conversion on my 2.3l, and I really want
> to do the megasquirt and am no virgin to wiring and doing modifications.
>
> What might you have laying around?
>
> On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 11:54 PM, Patrick Carlier 
> <p.carlier at pandora.be>wrote:
>
>> Yes I did .
>>
>> I had a great time converting several I5's , including a few turbo's to
>> megasuirt fuel
>> injection . All with succes I might add .
>>
>> In those day's it was compleately open source , so I made my own pcb , 
>> got
>> parts locally , got the engine parts from the scrap yard and converted a
>> car from cis to efi for less then
>> 300$ .
>> I even had a bi-fuel , ordinary gas and propane injection . Controlled
>> with a single megasuirt .
>> And a swithc on the dash to change fuel on the fly .
>> Worked like a charm .
>>
>> The downside , it's all DIY . You make up the fuel rail and parts  on the
>> lathe and mill .
>> You build the wiring  loom from scratch .
>> Tuning is all your own responsability  .
>> So if you don't perfectly knwo what yout doing , don't .
>>
>> I can highly recomend the megasquirt if  you feel that you have the 
>> skills
>> , and
>> if you're eager to learn about fuel injection .
>>
>> And altough i'm no longer a dealer , I still have a box of parts and a 
>> few
>> megasquirts .
>> So feel free to ask if you need anything particular  .
>>
>>
>> Pat
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen Kraus" 
>> <ub3ratl4sf00 at gmail.com
>>>
>> To: <urq at audifans.com>
>> Sent: Friday, April 27, 2012 7:09 AM
>> Subject: [urq] Megasquirt conversion
>>
>>
>> Just out of curiosity, has anyone converted to Megasquirt from CIS-E, 
>> CIS,
>>> or other Bosch fuel systems? Pros and Cons?
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