16v ECU/hardware swap or Megasquirt?

[bmcgarvey at gmail.com (Brian McGarvey)]

Daily driver..

keep the CIS-E in it. Like it or not it is pretty simple and will 99% of the
time get you home.

cases where it wont.
the hall sensor conncetor on the dizzy break/craps out. -- no ignition and
no fuel depending on the FP relay.
toasty fuel pump.
busted motor.

generally even if its running bad it will let you limp home. And it harder
to get more simple than factor that has already worked for ~20 years on that
car and willingly takes engine mods with no changes to the fueling system.
think about that add 20% more air flow and do nothing to the fueling.. it
just works. Thats the beauty of a mechanical based mass air flow meter. --
yep thats what the air flow plate is. Im sure that a few MEs can correct me
if i'm miss-stating, but its a gravity vs. mass air flow thing (force
applied).

remember that ferrari used this on their V8's they just used 2 of them.

The Bentley applies

My 0.02USD

Stuff that you will be irriated with.
the idle will hunt...Havent been in one that it doesnt yet... its all how
much.

Bigmac

On 3/22/07, Mark F. <mk1mark@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hey list,
>
> I'm going to be swapping over most of Michael Abatzis' old 16v I
> hauled up here from New Orleans recently into my 82 (cirrus grey, w/
> snowflakes Neptuno!).  The donor car has a nice 1.8L 16v punched out
> to 2L, w/ TT race header, and a bunch of other goodies.  I've never
> owned a 16v in my 17 years of Scirocco ownership (!?), so I don't
> really have an opinion of the stock 16v setup.
>
> My options are to use most of the stock 82 setup, swap over the
> complete 16v setup (w/ enrichment module), or Megasquirt (w/ coil pack
> ignition)...  I have not looked into how difficult the 16v fuel/spark
> swap would be, so if anyone has some insight into what to expect there
> that will help me as well.  As for Megasquirt, I've followed the
> development of it since quite early on and I know what to expect in
> terms of the hardware required and how to implement it.
>
> I'm leaning towards Megasquirt, especially since my MS project got
> scrapped last year, but as this car is (and will be) my daily driver
> I'm not overly concerned with wringing every last hp out of it.
> Anyone care to talk me out of it?  :)
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mark.
> 75
> 82
> 82 Caddy
> 91 Jetta Coupe
>
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