Megasquirt? What's the Situation?
 

Having already gone through an ECM issue, and of course wondering about the DIS (anyone have a spare on their shelf they don't need?), threads related to these always end up with references to Megasquirt. However, I've yet to see a thread that goes into the whole process of swapping to it.

So, my questions are:

1) what's involved in doing the swap? How many hours for a competent mechanic to it?
2)Aside from the Megasquirt 3 (?) controller, what is needed to make this work?
3) What are the costs of getting everything?
4) What instrument panel functionality do we lose?
5) How is reliability of the system?
6) What questions do I not know to ask about it?

Looking forward to getting educated.

Re: Megasquirt? What's the Situation?
 

I think RussMcB had one. You should reach out to him. Or call MegaSquirt directly.

Re: Megasquirt? What's the Situation?
 

To my knowledge the unit is supposed to be plug and play, but will require tuning.
Nothing I don't think

Cost of the unit $2000-$3000 plus the tuning hours

all the fuel stuff (Avg, Instant, DTE)

The basic premise is used in a bunch of applications so I would expect it to be decent (Russ can answer that)

It does not replace the Ignition module, it uses the stock one

Re: Megasquirt? What's the Situation?
 

http://www.megasquirtpnp.com/docs/mspnp_gP_zr9195.php


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Re: Megasquirt? What's the Situation?
 

Thanks.
Talking to Russ too. Pretty good feedback from him.

Re: Megasquirt? What's the Situation?
 

Thank you! That answers a lot. Not a bad solution to one area of ZR-1 issues.

Re: Megasquirt? What's the Situation?
 

Good read. Thanks. That answers a lot. Good of Megasquirt to build this for us.

Re: Megasquirt? What's the Situation?
 

I'm a bit confused (not the first time). I see references to using Megasquirt to replace the DIS. How would that work?

Re: Megasquirt? What's the Situation?
 

It is my understanding that with the mega squirt you can use the factory dis for plug and play operation. The mega squirt also has additional outputs that you could setup to run individual coils for each cylinder and not utilize the factory DIS and coils.

Re: Megasquirt? What's the Situation?
 

Thanks.
I thought I read something like that.

Gonna reach out to the good folks at Megasquirt for some clarification too.