Fuel Injection Pro to Megasquirt II

So when i bought my car from Cregg he had a FIP fuel and ignition controller in it(pictured at left). I tried to mess with it some, but i had absolutely no idea what i was doing. I asked friends, they looked at it some, but I was still right where I was at to start. Then in May of 2008 I went to work on a normal saturday morning. After doing some reading thar morning i realized that DIYAutotune was hosting their Mega-Meet that day! So when I got off work I decided to stop on by and see what all was going on, there was a bunch of cars getting dynoed, and a bunch of ppl sitting around. I ran into Bill, a quester from Florida, and John and David of Garage Zero. I stood around and hung out for a bit. Matt even came over and looked at my FIP setup. Said it looked normal *shrug* Well that very day i was bitten by the bug. I decided i HAD to swap out my FIP and install me a nice pretty Megasquirt.

So i did some reading and talked to Russ, he helped me decide what to buy. I ended up buying a unassembled MSII and we were going to set it up a distributor ignition setup just like FIP had. I also bought a harness, injector clips, and a couple sensors. Thanks to Cregg i was able to route the Megasquirt right in the same Gdamn impossible place he somehow routed the FIP harness. Then I connected up the power, injectors, all the timing stuff. and tried to crank it. nothing. nadda. nichts. no tach signal, no spark, nothin. so then I tried it a with a tach adapter. nothing. then I tried it with direct coil control. Got a tach signal!... but its like it was sparking every 5th crank or something... Couldn't get Timing to work right. So i was talking to with russ about how much a half finished megasquirt install is worth and he said "well I got a box of EDIS parts in my attic, you want 'em?"

I got all those parts, wired it all up, got Cregg to mod my crank pulley and installed it all. and finally with a bit of persuasion I had a running MPI Megasquirt EDIS car. I love this thing. It drives so smooth. Alot of people were asking why bother going through all that effort to switch from one stand alone to another. Its the experience and the lessons learned. When i first looked at megatune it was latin to me, now i can open Tuner Studio and tell you exactly what every setting does. I can look at a datalog and interpret it and tell you why your car is doing something. I NEVER would have understood this stuff before!

This experience has given me enough knowledge to help numerous Starquesters. I've even took a 1976 Toyota Celica with a 2.3 turbo-brick Volvo motor and got it all wired and running! That thing was wicked!

When everything was said and done, I regret nothing. I look forward to working on my car and continuing to help others as the opportunity arrises