EM: Engine management

[Tobert]

There's always megasquirt

megasquirt.info

[Joe_Black]

Yup, Megasquirt is the way to go.

[MoonRaker]

Ive been working with the greaddy E manage ultimate for some time on my Mazda, I was thinking of trying one on the VX to see if it will work. Acording to the manual it says isuzu. Since my warrentys done im thinking a S/C settup, why not I have one on my RX-8, RXP [jetski] and work at a high performance shop. I havent read around much on the sight, whats been done and whats been broken because of it. How are the alpine kits, i dont like the fact that there none intercooled.

[MZ-N10]

Ive been working with the greaddy E manage ultimate for some time on my Mazda, I was thinking of trying one on the VX to see if it will work. Acording to the manual it says isuzu. Since my warrentys done im thinking a S/C settup, why not I have one on my RX-8, RXP [jetski] and work at a high performance shop. I havent read around much on the sight, whats been done and whats been broken because of it. How are the alpine kits, i dont like the fact that there none intercooled.

if u want intercooled u could wait for Morgan-tec for his sc kit.

[WormGod]

It CAN be done, as the MoonCraft VX did it, but wow was that pipe routing a rat nest. A front bumper clip also had to be created to extend the front end for the FMIC. I would LOVE to throw a turbo into the VX, but I am skeptical about an automatic tranny with use of a turbo. It just takes the FUN out of the whole driving experience without manual shifting with that boost, heh. I have been in serious internal debate about adding a FMIC to my WRX but from my research, nothing is gonna beat a solid TMIC with the factory scoop design. Owing a WRX that is made to be modded only creates a larger void for me when it comes to the VX. So much can be done to one, but I want to incorporate it all into the other as well. *sigh*

[Joe_Black]

What we've been planning on the rally VX is smaller dual turbos feeding an intercooler mounted on top of the engine and fed by a low-profile hood scoop. The intercooler would be about 6 square feet and of a dual-inlet single outlet design, which are common in a variety of sizes. This keeps plumbing short, simple and efficient. Planned engine management is Megasquirt since it's supported, open source and uses no exotic components.

[Tobert]

Planned engine management is Megasquirt since it's supported, open source and uses no exotic components.

Are you going to piggyback it to keep TOD or come up with a separate TOD controller? I've read that you can run a second megasquirt with different firmware to do automatic transmission control, so it's possible that it could run TOD. Since they ported the firmware back to C, any reasonably competent C programmer (with some embedded experience) should be able to make it fly.

Most people just piggyback though.

[MoonRaker]

It CAN be done, as the MoonCraft VX did it, but wow was that pipe routing a rat nest. A front bumper clip also had to be created to extend the front end for the FMIC. I would LOVE to throw a turbo into the VX, but I am skeptical about an automatic tranny with use of a turbo. It just takes the FUN out of the whole driving experience without manual shifting with that boost, heh. I have been in serious internal debate about adding a FMIC to my WRX but from my research, nothing is gonna beat a solid TMIC with the factory scoop design. Owing a WRX that is made to be modded only creates a larger void for me when it comes to the VX. So much can be done to one, but I want to incorporate it all into the other as well. *sigh*

I havent seen it, if you could post a place for me to check it out. Ive been working with autorotor twin screw superchargers for 2 almost 3 years now, The problem we ran into with air to air I/Cs is a anoying harmonic sound. Im thinking a ford style water to air setup. That hood scoop idea might help with space.

[MZ-N10]

i dont think ur gonna get much out of 2 small twins, other then complexity. thats why most rx7/supra owners ditch the stock twins and go with a large turbo or parellel instead of sequential. if you have an open enough exhaust, turbo lag shouldnt really be an issue with a 3.5.

TMIC r nice but there always the problem of heatsoaking. on a hot day after a few runs the area ontop of the engine might be extremely hot, thats the problem wiht TMIC. the best place to mount the ic is acutally in a V or H mount with the rad and oil coolers, if space allows. V and H mounts allows teh rad/oil/ic to receive maximum cooling without the blockage of a FMIC.