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Old 07-02-10, 09:19 PM
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Clarkson m8, it is all relative. The 'not a lot of cash' statement I mean. A guy I know considers himself nearly skint when he gets down to his last 4 million in the bank. He then embarks on the next money making project / deal.
When someone tells me they are skint, they don't have more than 100quid in the bank account. Lol
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Old 08-02-10, 09:28 PM
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Alternatively go megasquirt on the engine, (utilising the OEM knock sensors if possible), get some decent exhaust manifolds made as BMW ones are truly awful and strangle the engine, tune it via a laptop and some spirited driving and you'll have a rather nice combination.

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Tony.

I have had a reply from megasquirt asking is there anything other than fuel & ignition we require the ECU to run. Can you please advise.

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Old 09-02-10, 02:30 AM
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Tony.

I have had a reply from megasquirt asking is there anything other than fuel & ignition we require the ECU to run. Can you please advise.

cheers Tom
If they are asking, I'd certainly ask them to see if they can accomodate knock sensors, traction control, soft rev limit, cooling fan, road speed, oil pressure, revs, volts, amps and oil temperature. ( use the ABS sensors to run traction control system)

This would enable you to use one point to wire in dashboard.

To give you some indication of how clever the original BMW ECU is, it monitors each and every denonation to ensure it is clean and sharp. Any misfire and it closes down that one cylinder until the ECU is reset. This means that should you set off a bit sharpish when the engine is still a bit cold ( lets say a bit of childish showing off when exiting a pub car park) and a trace of unburnt fuel causes a miniscule backfire the the ECU will cut all fuel and spark to that individual misfiring cylinder until the ECU is reset.

Thus you can drive home for 30 minutes thinking " Shit, I've dropped a valve doing that burnout" only for the car to reset itself between stopping in front of the garge door and running it into the garage. Bastard.

Or, for example, if a hose comes off and the engine starts to overheat the ECU will configure the engine to use cylinders to cool itself, firstly by injecting more fuel and then secondly by cutting the spark and using alternate cylinders as heat pumps to cool the engine.

Then if you're too stupid to stop the engine , when it gets to 117 degrees celcius it cuts out completely and wont start until it cools to 80 degrees. Absolutely impossible to overheat. Hence its things like this which is why I like standard ECU's.

Megasquirt will never be able to emulate that degree of complexity but if you can get it to run using the standard BMW sensor package, plug into the standard engine loom and give you functionality into the future re boost / forced injection compatibility you won't go far wrong.

I'm looking at using megasquirt as a simple piggyback controller for an additional injector or two on a boost sensor which should be adequate for my turbo backyard engineering requirements. I've got all the standard functionality from the original ECU, ignition, knock sensors, open/ closed loop fueling/ spark etc.

Good luck on making your own "aluminum" body, if you do one there may be orders waiting in the wings.....

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Thumbs down Front suspension problems

At the moment I can't sort out how to get away from the top rocker idea without major redesign to the lower end of the leg.

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because the leg has to revolve say 90deg can't see how I can get the coilover secured at the bottom??
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At the moment I can't sort out how to get away from the top rocker idea without major redesign to the lower end of the leg.

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because the leg has to revolve say 90deg can't see how I can get the coilover secured at the bottom??

Try this
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Thank you young man, whats the date for the March Kenn meet. Is the 1st Sun every month.

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Thank you young man, whats the date for the March Kenn meet. Is the 1st Sun every month.

cheers Tom.

Hi Tom

Are you not on our Area Rep's email list if not PM me your email address and I will forward it to Chris and you will be updated as to where the meets will be.

As in 2009 we are moving around for each meet, the next one is at the Fishermans Cot, The Fisherman's Cot, Bickleigh, Tiverton, Devon, England - ensuite bed and breakfast accommodation in traditional historic and haunted inn in Devon


Here's the programme, venues to be updated

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MARCH 7th - FISHERMANS COTT

APRIL 11TH - ANDY LOVEDAY

MAY 2ND – BARRIE PIPKIN

JUNE 6TH –. STEVE AND NICKIE

JUNE ? CULMSTOCK ?

JULY 4TH STEVE AND DIANE

JULY ? DEVON/CORNWALL RUN?

AUGUST 1ST - ANT AND EM

AUGUST ? MT EDGECUMBE ?

SEPTEMBER 5TH - LESLEY AND JERRY

OCTOBER 3RD LAURIE AND CHRIS

OCTOBER 22ND KIT CAR SHOW

NOVEMBER 7TH - NEIL OAKLEY TREASURE HUNT TIN TOPS

DECEMBER 5TH
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