A happy little bedtime story

[roccit_53 at scirocco.cs.uoguelph.ca (C Boyko)]

Yeah, after a few months of downtime for the "extensive injector insert
swap", Klaus is alive and very well. Thanks to Drew Mac for advice and help
on the mechanical end of things (which was no small feat, it incorporates
fourteen cars so far), and to Dan B for the MSnS advice and endless online
support, and to a host of others for ignition system troubleshooting (Mark
F, for example) Anyway, my ignition woes turned out to be a badly screwed
up .msq file. For anyone doing an MS conversion, do whatever Dan B says,
the pretests I did (for example tesing fuel flow and driving on CIS and the
spark part of MS only) gave me whatever shred of sanity I maintained during
this whole process.  Yeah, I lost it quite a few times.

Anyway, this is a very unique build, and I really like it so far. I have to
to learn about tuning with MS, but my first driving impressions today have
been very positive. The car ran like shit till I got one of the values to
where it needed to be (again, Dan's online support got that sorted out),
and even in its relatively untuned state, the car seems faster and smoother
than it was after two years of tweaking straight CIS. (mind you, I am
working with a tested map)

Unlike CIS: you have feedback on everything, second by second, variable by
variable, and you can just open the file you used last Wednesday instead of
figuring out how many quarter turns you moved the CIS dizzy screw and what
else you changed since then. And you can make datalogs of as much driving
time as you want to log. If you're thinking of doing it, budget for a wide
band O2 sensor and put it in even before you do the conversion. I had my WB
in for a whole year to tune CIS, so I have decent idea of where my car was
running as far as AFR. Again, it helped me know if MS was in the ballpark.

Anyway, I drove and drove today, then got to help my son volume test 16
injectors one at a time (the 'stang, new set and old set), then there was
beer too. (Klausie's injectors are are bigger too, ah, remember the days
of:"how big are your injectors?" LOL) So I need to give my brain a rest.
Dan, I'll send  you some files in the morning, okay?

Anyway, my darling son gave me my Mother's day gift early (a case of beer,
what a nice kid eh). Right now he's revving the 5L beast right under my
bedroom window, so I guess I'm not doing bedtime just yet. Anyway, it's
been a challnge for a few of us to get this car back on the road, but he's
back and feeling pretty good too! Beers for all!!
Cathy