Topic: megasquirt ?

[davehall]

I'm all over the place.  huge learning curve, but fun so far.

I'm thinking of putting in a megasquirt thing to completely replace my computer.  my primary goal is education and this seems like it is about as open (as in opensource like software) as anything out there.  also seems like it is possible to have it not work at all, if you don't know what you are doing.  i dream of some day putting in a turbo and i'm thinking that if i already had this thing in and had a good understanding of it, putting in a turbo would be easier. who knows if that will happen tho.

what do you say.  squirting a TJ.  will i learn anything? will it make a turbo easier down the road? will i get much/any performance boost with just the magasquirt?  or will i just end up with a pile of wires and a jeep that used to run?

i should say that i am much better with electronic stuff than mechanical stuff, but this is all new to me.

[sharpxmen]

would be a great project for a writeup - a standalone ECU is probably due in the Member's Projects section

i will follow up the progress closely if you end up going that route.

[sbsg2005]

alot of people use these systems on turbo swaps because the give you complete control over everything. Keep in mind though that this is not a emmisions legal unit. You can find good a good write up on www.turbododge.com were alot of people use these. The bigest problem I can see is in the file shareing. there may be not previous tunes for the amc 2.5 that our jeeps uses and the dodge 2.5 is a completely different motor. But if you look for a tune for a jeep and can't find one use a 96 and up 2.5 dakota tune since it is the same motor it should get you close. I have been doing alot of reading on these controlers since i will be swapping a 2.5 turbo engine from a 89 daytone into my 95 wrangler and it looks to be a cheap and viable solution to getting the electronics up and running. i plan to use the msII controller for all the extra options.

[dwtaylorpdx]

Vastly controllable, very "fiddly" most I've seen work fine for racing, but I haven't
seen any long term street ones that seemed to shine,,, Like to see someone figure it out!

Dave