I've got some extra MS stuff for sale if anyone is interested. PM for details and what your looking for.

 

Dave- the guy I was talking about doesnt have megasquirt, but he read up a lot on it. He had a turbo dodge powered lebaron and now drives an 05 legacy 2.5GT. He just wanted me to be his guinea pig.

 

Oh, ok. I have a feeling I'll give it a try, probably after the new cam and stall go in. What I have now will get me by until then. Then I can really tune it in with the MS once I have my setup complete.

 

I'm with you. I was plannign on running a FAST system, but really cant justify it as I'm not boosted. My nitrous setup is gonna be a full dedicated fuel system for a carb setup and be completely independent of the fuel injection. But, I'm gonna run a rather large cam, the Edelbrock heads, etc etc, and I dont see my idle vacuum beign high enough to run the truck off a stock PCM. And in the future when I step up to the 416 I'm gonna need a lot more fuel then the 318 requires. And once again, the stock PCM aint gonna run the 416.

 

Let us know how it goes. From what Ive read the only hard part on the mopar is gettign the crank signal.

 

MSD crank trigger!!

 

Put an EDIS wheel on the crank pulley and be done with it.

Look into the "second wheel decoder" option in the Extra software for MS - I use it on a variety of motors, it lets you combine the Cam position signal with the Crank position signal to get accurate decoding in Megasquirt, then you can run coilpacks.


As a comparison to FAST, (except the new XFI), megasquirt is quite a bit more intuitive and easier to understand; it also gives you user-definable RPM and MAP points for editing, whereas FAST only allows you to select "increments" that you can tune on. FOr example, every 500rpm or every 600rpm. Not any RPMs you like. Megasquirt, with the extra firmware, also has a ton more options. If I were going to run a Meany-built system, I'd go with a BigStuff3.

-scott

 

So, how hard would it be to use this on an 03+ 5.7L Hemi?

Anyone in the Southeast/ Mid-Atlantic area that will install these?

 

I don't live near you, but this wouldn't be any harder than running MS on any other motors out there.

In fact, I have been asked to MS a turbocharged, built-up 5.7 hemi in a Dakota R/T this winter. GOnna be awesome!!! How many turbo new hemi's are there out here anyways so far? I should know quite a bit more about them in the near future, the guy is getting his pullout motor this week,

-scott

 

hooking it up and making the motor run great would be easy but you really dont know what other snags you might run into with the stock computer and the rest of the truck once you start controling things with the mega. making one run in a transplant like the dakota should be easy.