Jan 20, 2009 alright folks, an ignition upgraded is in my future for this upcomoing year. Sample wiring diagram v8 png amp efi pressure transducers. If you wanted to use individual coilpacks coilonplug like on the wrx, you would need to use a ford edis 8 cylinder system, as it is basically a 4 plug wastespark setup. Beginning with the mspnp2, we redesigned the core of the mspnp hardware, basing it off of the much faster megasquirtii processor which will give you all of the control youve been looking for. Once drilled, measure from each hole made for the spark plug holes. Jun 12, 2010 heres the megasquirt ii with coil on plugs setup. Beginning with the mspnp2, we redesigned the core of the mspnp hardware, basing it off of the much faster megasquirt ii processor which will give you all of the control youve been looking for. Unconfirmed some 3 wire cops might contain a driver.
Because i sending my megasquirt thread dismally off topic i decided that i would start a new thread for going coil on plug. Megasquirt offers a full range of engine management systems, from singlecylinder up to 16 cylinders and beyond. Megasquirt, microsquirt sparkignition output msextra. The driving force behind this was the use of an integrated heat sink bus. Megasquirt has been installed on thousands of engines from purpose built racecars to restored classics.
All basic components pwm flyback damping circuit components hall sensorcoil and vr sensor ignition trigger components jumpered for hall sensor, optical sensor, points, or fuel. It is specially designed for driving highpower, dwellcontrolled ignition coils commonly found on performance engines. Ms3pro drop on 24x ls plug and play harness w ecu 1st gen by alex. When installing flowforce injectors, start by setting the dead times and re. Megasquirtii is an addon option for a standard megasquirt controller. The software application you use to tune and configure your megasquirtii or microsquirt controller is called tunerstudioms by phil tobin. A megasquirt v8 custom loom kit this is the easiest way and probably the most reliable for the future. We take out the hard part all you have to do is pass it through firewall, connect the plugs, and 3 wires 12 v battery, 12 v switched and ground. Megasquirt and coil on plug ign pelican parts forums. This eliminates the need for additional driver hardware and also eliminates high current. This will tell the megasquirt to ignore our ignition table and hold a fixed advance. As i mentioned, ignition timing with this motor has been an ongoing journey. Later on in the development, they came up with a way of replacing the distributor by fitting one coil per spark plug or one between two and triggering which fires and when electronically. There is a router board in planning that will eventually do sequential fuel and coil on plug, but until that is available the only install running true.
Megasquirt v3 main board megasquirtr faq main page. The windows 9xmexpvista7 software application you use to tune and configure your megasquirt or megasquirtii is either tuner studio by phil tobin or megatune by eric fahlgren. Configured to suit your individual needs the looms range from 2 to 16 injectors, coil per plug to distributor ignition and can contain everything necessary to run the entire injection system. Just remove your stock ecu and plug this in, and fire up your car.
Check out the broad offering, there is something for everyone. It runs a different version of the megasquirt software that has more bells and whistles. The difference is in the harness and software configuration. Matt cramer at diy autotune 1966 dodge dart slant six running on megasquirt. There are two hardware versions of megasquirtii, and two corresponding code versions. Please see for all of ms3pro plug and play documentation. The ms3pro pnp is the fullyfeatured stand alone ecu you need for full control of spark, fuel, and so much more. Any tips on using megaquirt to drive coil on plugs ignition for porsche 911. The microsquirt is the same as msii but in a small sealed case.
Megasquirt direct coil control, no spark ra65 do the led coil check thing mentioned in the megamanual. Ms3pro based mspnp takes plug and play engine management to the next level. Integra with coil on plug using megasquirt standalone ecu. Hi, can anyone recommend an oem ttl ignition coil to work with my ms3. Instead they are complete singlecylinder ignition systems. This is where you hook up an led instead of the ignition coil, and see if it flashes whilst trying to crank the engine. The system features eight coils one per cylinder mounted on the valve cover, with short spark plug wires to connect the coils to the spark plugs. As far as the timing cover i believe that uses the short style sn95 water pump so youd have to. Sequential firing a coil on plug cop setup using a variety of camcrank signals. It should plug into the cpu socket on an existing megasquirt board.
Megasquirt efi and edis for the bmw 2002 part 1 engine. The general motors ls1 coils are not just conventional ignition coils. The same thing youd order if you were going to use the afm. It has more memory and program storage, is faster and has all sorts of other features. Ms2 does have many extensions using the extra firmware. Generally this means a 0 or 5 volt signal that changes from one of these levels to the other at appropriate times generally to initiate dwell and spark. Is your 1997 wasted spark with two 4tower coils or coilonplug wasted spark is easy to setup with a ford edis module. The module is wired to the vr sensor and the megasquirt, and also the coil pack. You stick vb921 ignition driver chips in the megasquirt and use a crank sensor and coil packs or coil on plug and the megasquirt does all of the ignition function. Starting in 1997, general motors used a new for them coilnearplug ignition system for the then new corvette ls1 engine.
These professionally built looms are completely lined in high temperature heat shrink tubing, terminated with weather seal connectors where suitable. However there are changes to both the front and rear panel. Msd is excited to offer blaster coils for late model ford engines with coilonplug technology. It has 8 fuel and 8 logic spark outputs offering full sequential fuel and spark for hiz injectors and logic level coilonplug coils or highcurrent coils with suitable external ignition module. Your engine will run smoother, with excellent driveablity as well. Ms1extra is a firmware modification to the original bowling and grippo megasquirt. I am hoping for some discussion and input from people that have already made the conversion in a more diy fashion. To tune it, you load a bit of free software on to your pc and plug it in via serial rs232 or usb via.
Edis coil pack connector plug kit megasquirt new kitcar mega squirt ecu for ford. Get the best deal for megasquirt from the largest online selection at. The ls2truck coil has a visible external aluminum heat sink near the connector. The generation 2 mspnp and all new mspnp pro reaches out to more of your favorite vehicles. For the new megasquirt v3 main board, the case will be the same as used for the other megasquirt boards lmb 6x4 case or equivalent, however the endplates are different as the db connectors have moved.
Megasquirt 1 2 3 plug and play harness for datsun z zx. Will the megasquirt work with my stock ignition system. The new blaster cops are designed as a direct boltin replacement coil for many sohc modular motors. On cars that use this, the ignition module is controlled by a voltage signal from the ecu.
The edis system has an edis module and a coil pack. Ignition coils with internal ignitors 3 ignition coils without ignitors 8 ignition coil amplifiersignitors 2. Ignition systems components including single and multitower ignition coils, ignition modules and related wiringconnectors. Megasquirtpnp plugnplay standalone engine management systems by. Even compared to the ls1 coil, these are just crushers. Thats the hardest part and the only fabrication work. Ms2 extra megasquirt 2 ems stand alone engine management system assembled with the latest surface mount pcb3. If youre in the us, the ls2 truck coils with the heat sink on the back are one of the hottest oem coil per plug coils out there. There is a router board in planning that will eventually do sequential fuel and coil on plug, but until that is available the only install running true cop is using dual edis modules.
Megasquirt pnp gen2 manual megasquirtpnp by diyautotune. The wired differences 2011 icaia fall conference ranken technical college, st. Megasquirt support forum msextra coil on plug view topic. May 20, 20 this is my custom setup of coil on plug. All basic components pwm flyback damping circuit components hall sensorcoil and vr sensor ignition trigger components jumpered. Megasquirtii controllers can be triggered from the negative terminal of the coil, just like msi, as long as msii is not being used to control the ignition timing. A megasquirt ecu can give you mappable ignition using. All msii controllers sold since august 2005 are v2 the vast majority of msiis have a blue solder mask and use the code and ini from the blue box or red box with hardware and firmware modifications below, as do all microsquirt controllers.
Note that megasquirt may refer to the hardware board, or to the software code. Still need to tune it cause when the throttle opens up its to rich. Mark each spot on your strip and drill with the hole saw. The megasquirtii daughter card plugs in to the existing megasquirt processor socket, replacing the megasquirt 68hc908 processor. Coil on plug cop you may by all means pursue and cop system and drive it with megasquirt, and i think several 2002 owners have done so. Megasquirt ii programmable efi with coil per plug programmable ignition. Official support forum for megasquirt, microsquirt, ms1extra, ms2extra and megasquirt3. Start with someone elses fuel map for a similar engine then by looking at the mixture via the lambda oxygen sensor readout in the software tweak the settings to be better.
Megasquirt etc land rover technical archive lr4x4 the. I am planning to use megasquirt, coil on plugs on my 3. Megasquirt 2 is going to be better than going with megasquirt 1. All megasquirt v8 engine brackets trigger wheel, twin coil pack mounting. Used if when you start your engine it refuses to turn off on the key. Click here for megasquirt megamanual information, guides, and links configuring your megasquirtii or microsquirt controller. The firmware is designed to operate using either a supported ignition system, such as gm hei, or ford edis, or it can decode certain trigger wheel signals from crankcam sensor pickups and directly run wasted spark or coil on plug. Once done, lay the strip back down on the valve cover. By white90, july, 2006 in land rover technical archive. Megasquirt ms3pro plugnplay standalone engine management system.
The megasquirt thread ive had a fair few people ask me questions about megasquirt ecu, so i thought id share some of my knowledge and experience. The megasquirtii is what i would recommend for edis control and will take full control of an edis ignition system easily. Jul, 2006 msii not to be confused with revisions above is an upgraded processor for the megasquirt. On the driver side valve cover you can attach four a. This value is a static value that the megasquirt will use to command ignition timing. So, after driving the car for a few trouble free years with my original megasquirt install which ill call msi, i finally got going on adding programmable ignition. Aems 4 channel coil driver is designed to drive two wire dumb coils in coilonplug applications. For example, megasquirt ii code can run on the megasquirt i board.
On the ls2truck coil ac delco d585, there is 120 milliamps. Is your 1997 wasted spark with two 4tower coils or coil on plug wasted spark is easy to setup with a ford edis module. Variations include the original megasquirt, megasquirt ii msii and the latest microsquirt. For example, megasquirtii code can run on the megasquirti board. On the ls1 coil there is around 40 milliamps of peak secondary current with 5 milliseconds of dwell time. This is the present top of the range ecu in the traditional megasquirt range. Discussion in efi tuning questions and engine management started by millhouse, jan 20.
How many coil drivers does the ms come with, or can you get. Aems 4 channel coil driver is designed to drive two wire dumb coils in coil on plug applications. Most megasquirt vendors ship the ms1extra firmware as standard on ms1 boards. To tune it, you load a bit of free software on to your pc and plug it in via serial rs232 or usb via a serial adaptor. Megasquirtii programmable efi with coil per plug programmable ignition. Megasquirt support forum msextra support and discussion forum for megasquirt 1, 2, 3, microsquirtmodule, diypnp, mspnp2, ms3pro.
Coilonplug coils cop are typically used in overhead cam engines. It is specially designed for driving highpower, dwellcontrolled ignition coils commonly found on. But my advice on this one is frankly dont bother and just stick with the ford edis. Finally a complete drop in plug and play high quality custom megasquirt 1, 2 or 3 harness with fuse and relay box.