The MegaSquirt Project has experienced explosive growth other the years, with hundreds of new MS installations occurring every week - a phenomenal success! MegaSquirt has been successfully used in all aspects of Internal Combustion engine applications including R&D, Industry, Race, and Research. The MS project has transformed itself from a simple R&D project into a full-featured mature engine control system. To reflect this the support structure has also changed to meet the needs of MegaSquirt Users.
Moving forward, the R&D forums for MegaSquirt project are in a read-only mode - no new forum posts are accepted.
However the forums will remain available for view, they still contain a wealth of information on how MegaSquirt works, how it is installed and used. Feel free to search the forums for information, facts, and overview. While the R&D forum traffic has slowed in recent years, this is not at all a reflection of Megasquirt users, which continue to grow year after year. What has changed is that the method of MegaSquirt support today has rapidly moved to Facebook, this is where the vast majority of interaction is happening now. For those not on Facebook the msextra forums is another place for product support. Finally, for product selection assistance, all of the MegaSquirt vendors are there to help you select a system, along with all of the required pieces to make it complete.
This forum is for discussing ignition setup, tuning, and troubleshooting for MicroSquirt (TM)
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building a 528" stroker mopar big block... trying to plan everything -- have a question on timing control- I see MSII has the ability to control GM HEI and Ford EDIS... what will I have to do to control the timing on my Mopar ? I am planning on using a MSD distributor with an MSD 6AL box... do I need this stuff ? of will the MS render the MSD box useless (it sounds like it will control everything) --- however - how can the MSD distributor be modified to work with MSII ?
The VR signal from the MSD Distributor goes straight to Pin24 of the DB37. Make sure you assemble the VR circuit and jumper appropriately. You can use the IGBT driver to fire the MSD6AL's white trigger wire through Pin36.
Many of us are using Pro-Billets (not sure if anyone is using a ready-to-run though) and 6AL ignitions. Make sure you use shielded wire for the tach input and preferably the IGN output too.
Check the manual too, it has a page for setting up the 6AL.
Kris
Sydney, Australia
Successfully MS2 v3.0 squirted 1971 Holden Monaro HQ
400 Pontiac, ported #16 heads, Tomahawk intake with custom plenum using LS1 78mm throttle body dialed in with a TechEdge 2E0 Wideband Controller.
I run a Mallory Unilite with MSD 6AL and a MSD Timing Computer. I have the dist locked out (no advance) and let the Timing Computer handle the advance. Megasquirt can do spark advance with MSnS-e029q firmware but you will have to rum a MS I as the MS II cannot run this firmware. Mine is a 383, Eddy heads, 284/484 cam, 36lb injectors on a dual quad manifold with dual 65mm throttle bodies. I am very pleased with the performance of MS. I'm sure I can dail it in further and make it better. The hardest part for me was to get the fuel mapped correctly. I finally paid for dyno time using a light load and a WB sensor to get it right.