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Sunday, 29 May 2011

36-1Triggerwheel in place... (Rebuilt in later post)

Mounted my adapter on the pulley. As you can see it's put above the pulley since I didn't want to loosen anything and then fixated with 4 screws into the pulley.


This is how it looks...



Attatched the trigger wheel to the adapter and placed the 6'th toot after the missing one right infront of the sensor.

Friday, 20 May 2011

After a nervous wait my fuelrail finally arrived...

After a nervous wait my custom made fuelrail arrived, had some difficulties to measure the exact distance between the injectors on the top and was afraid that the rail wouldn't fit... but it was a perfect match...

FYI... the mesurement for a Mercedes M110 fuel injector distance in mm
   
I----93,5----I----93,5----I----93,5----I----93,5----I----93,5----I
I------------------------------ 467.5 mm --------------------------I

The injectors fits perfect into the fuelrail


Some pictures showing the fuelrail mounted with injectors




Thursday, 12 May 2011

Upgrading the ignition

Since I'm still waiting for some parts for the fuel system swap I decided to start replacing the ignition. I will mount a trigger wheel on the crancshaft pulley which will be used to trigger both the fuel-injectors and the ignition. Hopefully I will get my adapter for the trigger wheel soon so that I can start mounting it on the car.

Trigger wheel and VR sensor on pulley
The Megasquirt ECU will controll the ignition by using 3 "coil driver transistors" wich fire 2 spark-plugs at time (Wasted Spark) via a 6 Coil Pack. The "coil driver transistors" are mounted at the Relay Board's aluminium chassi and the the signals are taken from the circut board.

The Coil Pack costs about 450kr (75$) and the transistors about 50kr (8.5$) each. The Coil Pack can probably be found much cheaper at nearest junkyard...

Very simple function, the coil has a permanent 12+ connected to one side and the other side of the coil are grounded via the "coil driver transistor" when it's time to fire.This will replace the distributor, old transistorized ignition box and coil.

3 coil driver transistors connected to the Coil Pack


Inside the Coil Pack


This is the ignition table I will start with and then calibrate it while driving...

Load (intake vacuum and/or opened throttle) and RPM

Saturday, 16 April 2011

Mounted sensors in motorbay for MegaSquirt and tested everything today...

Have mounted the coolant temperature sensor and TPS on the motor today, the intake air temperatur sensor is just laying loose next to the air-filter until I remove the fuel distributor and replace it with my stripped one.
Connected all sensors to the MegaSquirt relay board and a vacuum hose to the MAP-sensor (located on the MegaSquirt ECU). Now all inputs to the MegaSquirt system are in place, the only thing left is to mount the electrical fuel-injectors which will be done as soon as I'm familiar with all settings in the tuning software.
All cables are drawn temporarly until I do the final swap...

After everything was connected I started her up and I could see all data from the motor live on my laptop, it looks like the "fuel" map is quite good since I moved around in the right part of the curve according to RPM and MAP (vacuum in the intake manifold).

Coolant sensor in place

Coolant sensor
Relay board

TPS(Throttle Position Sensor) in place

Relay board

Live view on my laptop

Thursday, 7 April 2011

The car is now sprayed with rust protective coating (Dinitrol)...

Took some photos underneath the car...
The firm used Dinitrol for the coat.








Got a bright idea, use the spare fuel distributor...

I have had some thoughts about how to mount the airfilter to the throttle-body when I swap fuel-system, then I remembered that I had a spare fuel-distributor which sat on the spare motor I bought and it doesn't fit on my car anyway...

I stript it from the air-scale, plugged the hole where the actual fuel.distributor was mounted and made a new hole for the intake tempature sensor (IAC).

IAC mounted and the hole plugged.
By doing this I can use my current airfilter without any modifications.
Modified Fuel Distributor Body

Saturday, 2 April 2011

Building Relay board and MegaView

Got the parts I ordered from https://www.diyautotune.com this Friday. I have now spent a couple of hours to build the Relay board and the MegaView unit and it did work at first attempt.

The Relay Board will be mounted in the engine bay and is connected via a DB-37 cable to the MegaSquirt ECU, 12V power supply, all sensors and injectors are attached to the Relay Board. The MegaView board are connected via a standard serial cable to the ECU. MegaView is an add-on accessory for the MegaSquirt  system, providing real-time display of all engine operating parameters, and allowing for the edit of any configuration variable in the MegaSquirt ECU.

I'm now planning to mount all sensors used by the MS. By doing this I can monitoring all parameters and tune the system while I am driving the car still using the CIS system. When everything looks ok...
  1. Remove the CIS system's fuel distributer and injectors...
  2. Put the new Bosch injectors in place...
  3. Connect fuel hoses to the fuelrail and off we go... 

Test board connected to the MS ECU instead of Relay bord