can they be trusted?? i will go and do more reasearch on the unit itself also, but i am looking to buy a stand alone ASAP and am a poor poor man lol i have yet to hear anything bad about mega squits, but i havent done much reasearch yet either...

so any imput one the unit or trustworthyness of thoes on fleebay selling them preassembled like this one http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/MEGAS...QQcmdZViewItem i would be greatly appreciative


(Edit for sig violation...Check your PMs)

 

http://www.diyautotune.com/catalog/index.php?cPath=25

A few dollars more but with warranty...

 

Build your own. Otherwise when the next newfangled add-on comes along, you'll be too scared to open the box. It's a 4-6 hour job with some very basic tools most of you should have anyways. By going through the building process, you'll also have the opportunity to learn about electronics, reflashing the embedded code, and efi basics in general.

There is tons of builders support on the msefi forum, with literally 100's of people with little to no electronics assembly experience successfully building and installing these things. The kits and instructions are great. Follow them to the letter, and do the tests along the way, and you've got something worth much more than a warranty...the ability and experience to fix/mod it yourself.

Vendors are selling assembled units for $270-$330 range, while a complete kit to build the identical MS box is $130 here:
http://www.diyautotune.com/catalog/p...products_id=28
Figure 6 hours labour (half that if you've built a few), and $150 savings, that works out to $25/hr (after tax) you get paid to do the job yourself!

 

I agree with Roger. If you must have a built unit then at least support one of the groups that are helping to develop things further. I have worked with http://www.rs-autosport.com/ on some of the beta testing and can recommend them highly.

Some others just copy what the trailblazers are doing. In one case someone even bought a kit off one of the other kit suppliers and copied it.

 

so then ur saying Megasquirt is good?? lol and also, just to clarify, it is a true stand alone where i can ditch my ECU and harness (aside form the wipers and what not) completly and run this set up right???

and yeah, id do it myself, but i am a mess solderer........er lol but yeah, ill look into doing it myself also i guess......thanx for the tips guys!

 

yes, it is good

And yes, you can ditch the stock ECU, but you have a LOT of reading to do before you ditch it... I'd start by reading all the threads in the Megasquirt part of this forum, and then www.megasquirt.info (not necessarily in that order).

 

yeah, i know i have some readin to do thanx for the link though!! and i got all winter to figure this shizzle out! / lol not sure weather to smile or cry hahahha

 

Would this HEI be capable of driving an Accell ecoil with dual high voltage terminals by conecting it to the reluctor pickup in the '81-'85 electronic distributor? The goal is to provide a DFIS with low cost.

http://www.diyautotune.com/catalog/h...case-p-60.html

 

I'd suggest you start a new thread instead of jacking this one.

Sorry don't know how to help with your problem though.