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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Hi All,
I apologize if this is a lame question, but I'm a Megasquirt newbie, and I can't find the answer to my question. I've searched the archives, and can't seem to locate the information that I need. I am working on converting my CIS equipped '82 Mercedes 380sl to megasquirt. I am pretty solid on the fuel portion of the conversion, but am stumped as to what option I have for spark control. I plan on purchasing a MSII v. 3.0. and running the stock distributor with no spark boxes, etc. Can you tell me what type of dizzy and what type of signal I will get from this (hall, vr, etc.) Thanks to all of you who help make this site go!! I can't wait until I can post my setup in the success stories!
--Jay Swann
'82 Mercedes 380sl--still in the design phase
I agree that looks to be a VR pickup similar to GM types. To control the ignition you will have to disable both the vacuum advance (cannister on the side) and the mechanical advance mechanism - if it has one - under the pickup. You can usually tell if there is a mechanical advance if you can turn the rotor a few degrees in the direction of rotation (just moderate finger pressure) and it springs back to the original position when released.
