Well, I've changed alot around on the car, and am still progressing along with it. Next week, it'll be wired and fired! (no shit, otherwise it'll tough to drive across country!
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For the last couple years I've been running a Haltech E6X. Good box, but had *alot* of trouble with getting solid reliable crank signal. By alot of trouble I'm of course reffering to a pile of broken apex seals, several trash housings, chewed turbines and words that only a sailor would love.
I made the ECU switch mostly out of the need for extreme trigger accuracy. The TEC series of ECU's only use their own mag sensors and trigger wheels, no adapting into factory stuff. The system I'm running has a 60-2 tooth wheel mounted directly on the crank. No more CAS gear slop, VR conditioning, gains/filters or PROBLEMS (knocking on wood
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The other benefits of the new ECU were full sequential injection and ignition. The ECU comes with its own coils (similar or the same as IGN-1 coils) but obviously, I won't know how beefy they are until 18-20psi with 800cc of straight water.
This thread will just cover the changes I've made to the car, and getting it to deals gap (plus the keys! yeah!) and back.
Now some pik-tars.
My ECU mount. I didn't hack up the one I made for the haltech, so I can later on re-use the whole gammot (with a different crank trigger other then stock)
Basically just put two flat bars across the stock ECU mount. Bolted EMS down, done. The pic shows the foam I installed under the ECU to minimize vibration....it just illustrates how much the foam is compressed.
Here's the wiring under the dash. Most of its not visible - that was the idea. Ran it all with the stock wiring. When I re-did the engien harness for the new ECU, I thought "what the hell" and decided it would be a good idea if I removed *EVERY SINGLE* piece of wiring added to the car in the past, and did once, and correctly. There was all kinds of shit in there from the previous owner (CP racing....) shit you'd never want your friends to find out about much like the fat chick you got a BJ from while hamemred.
Here's a nice shot of the a little harness. My glove box is littered with electronics, and in a stupor of some type, I thought it was a smashing idea to wire it all in straight up, no plugs. Well - when you decide to pull the glove box after doing something that stupid, you realize the error of your ways and make everything plug and play. The glove box houses: AI controller, Fuel pressure gauge, secret ninja switch..... and datalogging switch as well as the COM cable for the ECU.
Above is fuse panel #2. This one is fed of of ACC ignition, or key on only. Feeds a few devices (and one wire is missing in this pic) but its also got a few spare spots if I ever add anything. There's more fuse panels which I'll snap shots of later.
Here we see the mess that's left to wire. Not really much to do here other then wire in the last three realy plugs (two fans and AI) and tidy it up. I decide to stop the wiring progress here because I have everything I need to finish it up...............the engine however needs a bunch of things custom made, so thats where my attention is ATM.
EDIT: You can also see the neato relay mounts I made up out of some AL. Inspiration for those goes to TTT from his ECU mount. The realys had no tabs (GHEY) so I had to improvise something. This foam lined custom bit does the job very well!
87 TII, TECgt, T04-R....DGRR '09 build!
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