NZConvertible

Because in most cases "daily-driven FC" means "only means of transport", and if you're building, configuring, installing and tuning it yourself, your car won't be going anywhere for a while. Unless you have alternative transport, or get one that's truly plug-and-play (including tuning), that's simply not an option.

Tofuball

For my 'vert, I biult mine with the harness, outside of the car, so it didnt take long to install at all.



As for plug and play, check out our unit sometime.

Comes with a basemap and all. When I installed it on my TII, it took all of 10 minutes. Then I just plugged in the laptop and drove to church with autotune turned on. (I already had a wideband installed)

If you dont call that plug and play, I've got no idea what you're thinking.

NZConvertible

The point being made was fairly obvious:

"The megasquirt should only be attempted if you're car is NOT daily driven and you have another car to use. As already stated here, it is a pretty involved process and requires at least some electrical knowledge."

He never said it shouldn't be used on a daily driver and he was clearly not referring to pre-built units. Not everyone wants to go that route, but the DIY approach obviously isn't smart if you don't have another car to use.

91verty

thIs is a young kid with very litle knowledge of rotarys and a budget! Megasqiurt will fry his brain and then we will all be responsible for advising him of that. Safc-2 is virtually simple and can be done step by step with little to no probs. Now wich way would you recommend this to any beginning rotary nut?

ahabion

how bout rteks? are they not as easy or same as safc's? or are they a step up?

Sideways7

iTrader: (7)

The rtek is a re-flashed ecu that is usually used to accomadate larger injectors on turbo cars. I'm not even sure if it can be used on a non-turbo.

ahabion

true on the turbo cars only... on their site i believe thats what they state... which is also what i'll most likely get for my car. i think they say something about truly adding in a fuel map instead of "fooling" the ecu or something like that... i'm not sure, check it out for yourself i guess.

Sideways7

iTrader: (7)

Yeah, the rtek actually modifies the fuel map, where the safc modifies the signal going to the ecu to fool it into adding more fuel. It works perfectly fine, though.

masao

Woah. You suck at life. That only controls the mixture idle, dude. And you can't really mess it up. Once you adjust it beyond what the computer think is ok it will ignore that switch completely.

And an SAFC is "ghey"? sigh... You have much to learn young grasshopper.

To answer the gentlemans original question, Megasquirt is cheap, can save you gas mileage, and can give you a boost in performance. It is a good start to making a fun N/A FC.


Edit-- I just finished reading the thread, which I should have done before, since everything that I said had pretty much already been said.

The Megasquirt can be used as a full standalone, or as a piggy back to just control fuel, and leave the rest alone. You can get pre-built units for very little and then the tuning is the hard part but there are tons of people you can ask on here when you are trying to get it perfect.

Unseen24-7

Thanks for all the info.