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Trim ring and gauges set in place.
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Drawer and lid installed all open.
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Drawer and lid installed all closed.
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188 hits | 58.2 KB | Posted: 3/10/16
Display for the Tech Edge wide band O2.
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Big ol pile of fuel injection parts. This isn't all of it either. Takes a bunch of little bits to do things.
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Assembling the Megasquirt. Lots of soldering.
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Mostly done. Had a bit of trouble getting the laptop to talk to the ECM but I got it figured out.
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Made a bracket to hold the intake flat for boring the injector holes. Simple 45 degree plate bolts to the intake flange and bolts to the drill press.
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Welded lug supports the intake port. I bored a hole under this so the bit wouldn't ride down the flange and screw up the hole.
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Boring the injector bung holes. I used normal water to lubricate the bit so there wasn't any oil to soak into the aluminum and contaminate the weld. I had to constantly spray water but it worked fine. I already spent a lot of time boiling this intake...
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Boring another hole. Setup worked just fine.
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The more angled holes rode a little so I had to ream them later but it wasn't much of an issue.
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Eight holes all drilled. Just need to make a quick fixture to hold the bungs properly.
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Driver's side bungs welded.
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Passenger side bungs welded.
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Fuel rail mockup.
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Bungs ground flush inside intake runners.
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Intake bolted down and rails on checking for clearance.
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Another shot of the intake and rails. Turns out the rails clear but not the fittings. Had to melt a little of the wiper box away but nothing too bad.
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Custom chisel I made to fix the slight bulge the welder left in on bung.
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Megasquirt bolted up behind the glove box.
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View of the ECM from the passenger foot well.
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Aluminum panel for fuse and relay blocks.
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Electrical distribution center.
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Working on the wiring. I have the main relay and fuel pump relay half wired in this picture. You can see the wiring diagram I created (based on a Megasquirt diagram) that I'm using to wire everything. I only have 30 or so more wires to connect before...
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Most of the fuel injection wiring harness installed. Took a long time but I tracked down factory connectors and terminals for every thing. There are no pigtails and almost no splices in the entire harness. It's just loosely zip-tied here but I'll pul...
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Pulled the entire harness out of the car to wrap it up. The whole thing pretty much pops out as a single harness. All the wires terminate in OEM or at least OEM-style connectors. The Megasquirt 37-pin connector has to have the shell removed to fit th...
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The harness fully wrapped in wire loom. Mostly high-temp split loom but there is some high-temp braided loom in there too. The high-temp stuff lets you use heat shrink on the ends for a clean finish. Everywhere the loom splits or changes size it's wr...
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The tuning software running on the laptop talks to the ECM and the ECM talks to the sensors. I calibrated the TPS right after this but everything else looks normal.
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Harness installed on the car. It hides pretty well. I was going for an OEM fit and finish and I think it looks pretty close.
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Laying out the rails to hold the injectors for welding. 3/4" extruded aluminum square tube.
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View from the driver's side.
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Better lighting. Short pieces of 1/2" threaded rod hold each bung and allow me to adjust the bung height pretty precisely. Had to make the cross pieces angled a bit to account for the angle of the carb mounting pad.
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The lower nuts holding the bungs had to be ground down to 3/4" diameter to fit through the holes with the bungs. I ground flats on them so I could tighten them with a wrench. The bungs ended up withing a few thousandths of each other in height. ...
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Everything bolted down and ready to go to the welder.Nothing moved much during welding so I suppose the fixture worked well. I still have the bits in case I ever end up doing this again. Not hard at all.
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The car has a convenient factory hole to run wires to the trunk. The factory trunk lighting wires run through here with no grommet so my battery cables should be fine in the flexible conduit I'm using.
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Flexible conduit run. This is all behind the rear seat and behind various panels and whatnot. It's invisible once the interior is in.
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Joining the flexible conduit to the battery box. I used a special bulkhead fitting. Should be nice and airtight once it's all said and done.
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Battery box vent. Hose plastic epoxied into the 90 degree bulkhead fitting and into the trunk sheet metal.
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The former battery location is full of air filter. Running the two cables through the conduit was not easy; it took a lot of lube but it worked out okay. The battery is grounded to the trunk floor and then to the frame in the rear and the engine bloc...
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Pile of parts ready to install.
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Flexible conduit running down channel by doors. Well protected.
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Conduit coming out in engine compartment. Came up through a factory hole.
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Vent tube. Epoxied into the fitting and to the floor. No movement, no leaks.
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Crimp fitting, solder to cover the open end, marine heat shrink to seal and act as strain relief. That's how I do it at least.
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