MegaSquirt II Successfully Running on 7M-GTE!!! (Lots of pics and walkthrough)

87_7MGTE

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here you go

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miekedmr

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Kai said:
Is it possible to get the MSII to work on a 7M-GE? Cause thats what I got and i dont want to go turbo :/

Yep. MSII doesn't care whether you have a turbo or not. It just needs to know manifold pressure, air temp, rpm, etc...
You don't want to go turbo??
 

Kai

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Dont particularly want to go turbo, for only 30bhp more and to have all the expense of paying out £2000 for a decent engine and box, hacking the loom to bits to make it work etc - too much hassle for such a small horsepower gain, not to mention being on a virtually shoestring budget. Personally, i'd rather supercharge the engine - lot simpler that way :D

As for the fact that my engine uses a distributor - does the MSII unit not care about that? And would it use the Hall sensor as input instead of me having to get a crank pulley sensor?
 

williamb82

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if your using the distributor, you just midify the pickup in the stock dizzy, and the turbo motor is alot more then a 30bhp gain, why the heel would you leave it bone stock. that n/a 7m with headers, intake, port work etc.. wont make 200rwhp. the stock 7mgte wit ha full 3in turbo back exhaust, a good manual boost controller, an air filter and a good clutch should lay down ~300rwhp. if you add fuel and an upgraded turbo/i/c etc.. your knocking on 400rwhp easily. dont look at stock for stock, since you wont be running it bone stock. an exhaust alone on the gte makes ~40more rwhp, whats it do to the ge, 5-7?
 

Kai

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Owning a turbo car is loads of trouble - i've owned two before (Sierra RS Cosworth & an Escort RS Turbo - both UKDM).

The thing i hate is a) turbo lag b) reduced fuel economy c) way more expensive road tax d) way more expensive insurance.

I have an N/A specifically because its the cheapest Supra to run and insure, as well as having the benefit of no turbo lag.

Already had the car dynoed at 204bhp by Power Engineering - hasnt lost anything since it was made, in fact its *gained* 4 bhp just from the 2.5" exhaust and the K&N :)

Dont forget, i'm in the UK, and an '88 means no catalytic converter and i can have CO levels of upto 3.5% :p
 

blackout_89t

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Help? The 7m ISCV is a stepper motor, correct? So I only need to jumper s12c and js9? Not all the others, correct?

From megamanual:


22. Now you need to make a decision on the first 'optional' component: if you are going to use an IAC stepper motor with MegaSquirt-II, you must install a jumper from the hole marked S12C to the hole marked JS9 (+12C). These are on the bottom side of the board, on the DB9 side of the processor. DO NOT INSTALL THIS JUMPER FOR NON-MegaSquirt-II APPLICATIONS - IT WILL DESTROY THE PROCESSOR!!

If you are going to use a stepper style IAC (such as the GM IAC), you need to connect jumpers to bring the controller signals out to the DB37:

Connect (1A)JS0 (under the processor socket) to IAC1A (near the DB37 connector) - this brings out IAC1A on DB37 pin #25
Connect (1B)JS1 (under the processor socket) to IAC1B (near the DB37 connector) - this brings out IAC1B on DB37 pin #27
Connect (2A)JS2 (under the processor socket) to IAC2A (near the DB37 connector) - this brings out IAC2A on DB37 pin #29
Connect (2B)JS3 (under the processor socket) to IAC2B (near the DB37 connector) - this brings out IAC2B on DB37 pin #31


All the jumpers on the bottom are confusing me, do I have to do those?
 

Clifton

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Doward said:
I'm confused.. why can't MS read from the stock CPS?


MSII doesn't have a wheel decoder. MS isn't reading the 36-1 wheel, the EDIS module is and sending a signal to MS. You could use a GE distributor.
 

87_7MGTE

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Doward said:
I'm confused.. why can't MS read from the stock CPS?

MSII cant read from the stock CPS because it has 2 wheels, one 24 tooth wheel for crank position and one 2 tooth (i think) wheel for tdc position. MSII cant add these 2 things together, yet. MSI has a wheel decoder built into the msns-e firmware, so the stock CPS can work with this firmware, but its on old hardware.
 

figgie

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87_7MGTE said:
MSII cant read from the stock CPS because it has 2 wheels, one 24 tooth wheel for crank position and one 2 tooth (i think) wheel for tdc position. MSII cant add these 2 things together, yet. MSI has a wheel decoder built into the msns-e firmware, so the stock CPS can work with this firmware, but its on old hardware.

more specifically

Ne signal is the 24 tooth signal. No missing teeth or anything

Ge1 and Ge2 are the TDC signals for Cylinder #1 and Cylinder #6 respectively.

damn brilliant if you ask me. they put the sync AND the ref signal in one.

24 tooth x 2 for 48 teeth per engine CYCLE. TDC event happen once per cycle (tdc for #1 and 36)