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I have bought microsquirt for my bmw, its installed but not running right yet, but looking threw the options of what it can do for the price, I'm really impressed.
Is anyone else running it yet?
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froggy
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Had micro on my twin turbo 1uz for the last few years , great value but does lack enough I/o to do much monitoring . Upgrading to ms3 this year to add some protection .
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Had Megasquirt MS2 running on my Triumph Vitesse since mid 2000s. MS2 is very similar to Microsquirt functionally and uses same firmware and software, Microsquirt is just more neatly packaged. It works really well. Also converted a Triumph 2.5 PI to electronic injection using the same system.
Nick
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1967 Triumph Vitesse convertible (old friend)
1996 Audi A6 2.5 TDI Avant (still durability testing)
1972 GT6 Mk3 (Restored after loong rest & getting the hang of being a car again)
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some of the Rollign road blokes i know say they are rubbish, but a few ive spoken to say they are good.
I'm looking forward to getting my car sorted with it on.
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some of the Rollign road blokes i know say they are rubbish, but a few ive spoken to say they are good. I'm looking forward to getting my car sorted with it on. They aren’t universally popular with rolling road operators. Often because they don’t sell them or have any way of communicating with them. It’s probably also fair to say that build quality of the ECUs is variable (not an issue with Microsquirt) and the installations more so. My suggestion is that you get to know the basics and make sure you have a laptop and leads that will reliably connect and communicate. Tuner Studio is my favourite tuning software. Worth paying for the full version but you probably can get by on the free version. You can do a lot of tuning without a RR but strongly suggest that the fuelling and timing for the full throttle, high rpm areas is done on the RR. The guy I use puts me in the passenger seat to drive the laptop while he drives the car and the RR. Works well. Nick |
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1967 Triumph Vitesse convertible (old friend)
1996 Audi A6 2.5 TDI Avant (still durability testing)
1972 GT6 Mk3 (Restored after loong rest & getting the hang of being a car again)
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ah interesting, my mate bought a built megasquirt for his e30 turbo, and the ecu had to go back 2 times, and then was only fixed when the RR guy knew the fault.
The guy who recommended microsquirt to me also sells efi parts LOL!
With out saying so much, one guy i got to know who RR cars, good with factory ecus, meant to be really good, and he is a good guy, i sms for a time to RR he said as he had lots of no turn ups he needed a deposit, so i said id check with work to confirm i can get teh day off, and i got no reply the next day , or for the next week or so. I thought he was being funny with me and saw my ar se.. he was on holiday but no one knew.
Now doing the microsquirt, ive learnt loads... its properly interesting and not as hard as you may think to learn if you have time.. unfortunately i don't have time atm,, so I'm really pushing to get my car running and roaded...
but its really good...
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What made you go for microsquirt over megasquirt? I had planned to use megajolt as I wanted to keep carbs but I like the idea of fuel injection now
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1967 Beetle
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my mate said... its really small, powerful imho, its a base for a lot, instead of buying bits you don't need, you build it to what you want. Also, its prebuilt properly. for £360 from ebay for a programmable ecu, it seems to be fantastic.
But ive not the car running properly yet.
With it too, i got pdfs, and if you read them properly, itll teach you so much. Understanding them is really easy too, each wire is laser printed with what it is, and you have a pin out too on the back of the ecu. The PDF will say, connect this wire to that etc, and also give reasons why .
For the bmw, ive had to buy a few bits, not nothing too expensive, a map sensor, ignition amplifier, etc.
the tunerstudio , that is quiet powerful too, my laptop just plugged into it and it recognised the ecu straight away, you can do tests like get teh injectors to fire, or turn the fuel pump on, or get it to spark. As for mapping, ill get a local rolling road guy in runcorn to do it.
So far, i really rate it.
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madwrx
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Mar 17, 2019 16:32:37 GMT
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once you get a decent map on it -it will give good service i think -if you push the engine a little harder the logging and anti det strategies become very important though -paying more money will give access to live monitoring of the engine parameters with bluetooth gauge displays - if a turbo car try to log fuel pressure and ACT -often the car behaves quite differently on the road to a dyno cell-often the actual air flow at speed on the road far surpasses the piddly fans in a RR cell- i always try to get the mapper to check the map on the road afterwards (there not always keen lol) not for the full throttle stuff but in the low to mid range fuelling and timing where free power and torque can be found witha bit more airflow through the engine allowing abit more timing.
been logging mine this week after a map tweek where the mapper said fuel pressure and ACT was getting to their limits in a RR cell
did 10 runs on the road and never saw ACTs above 18 degrees and fuel pressure tracking boost spot on,EGT never went above 860 degrees-- spot on numbers at 2.1 bar and over 600 brake,,,,
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