stichill99
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Please carry on posting your work.I love to see it!
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Richard Stowe
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So is it still on point's and condenser or has it got electronic?
Richard Stowe
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I know it's not original but they do need it
bert
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Well maintained points are fine for show/weekend cars. The problem is few people know how to maintain them now so they become an issue for non starting and breakdowns.I know it's not original but they do need it
Richard Stowe
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yeah puddles become a bit of an issue aswell
Edward Teach
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They never did with my Mini Van back in the day,yeah puddles become a bit of an issue aswell
The little plastic grill guard can help
DuncanCallum
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Later a plus guards are the best but God awful.
Nice job. I've my cooper to doubt I'd get it anywhere near your level in a 1000yrs
Nice job. I've my cooper to doubt I'd get it anywhere near your level in a 1000yrs
Points and condenser for me, sorry..
I'm a time served electronics guy, and while I see the advantages, sometimes the environment you put these things in just gives you grief.
Many years ago I had a small, part time business that fitted ecu s to race engines that I'd be building. So, as part (a big part) of an electronics degree I was taking, I designed and built an ecu that ran one of my minis - fuel and sparks. My intention was to develop it, and market it in what was then either a very expensive market, or at best fledgeling. But I came across a South African company, which I dare not name, that sold the very thing I was going to develop, at the right price. So, why bother re-inventing the wheel, just sell their kit?
Except it didn't work... I spent a massive amount of time, many hundreds of pounds, bought their kit, sold some of it, bought it back, hundreds of emails, all grief and lies.
In an effort to get to grips with the causees of all these failures I fitted one of their ecus to my roadgoing mini at the time (the same one I put my ecu on), just doing the sparks. What I found was that every now and again, I would get random misfires, and then it would run well. So, part of the ecu capability was logging, and I logged everything, in turn. What I found, astonishingly, was that at times the ecu would reset itself, as if from a cold start. On its own, a bit strange, but why? It turned out that the supply from the ignition switch on my mini wasn't clean - it intermittently cut, causing the ecu to reset. On points I never saw it...
Anyway, the SA ecu had bigger issues, on a customer engine the thing would backfire all the time, run backwards, all the crap you could imagine. It turned out to be a dos based setup screen that conflicted with the windows gui. Effectively it fired the injectors on power up to clear them, but somehow the dos setup wasn't overwritten by the windows gui, and the coil drivers thought they were injectors...
After hundreds of emails, during which the lying cheating SA batstewards denied they had a problem and blamed me, I offered to help them sort their product out, they refused my offer. So that was that, lost time, money, goodwill, a year or more of my life, put down to experience. And electronics and old cars don't allways mix
I'm a time served electronics guy, and while I see the advantages, sometimes the environment you put these things in just gives you grief.
Many years ago I had a small, part time business that fitted ecu s to race engines that I'd be building. So, as part (a big part) of an electronics degree I was taking, I designed and built an ecu that ran one of my minis - fuel and sparks. My intention was to develop it, and market it in what was then either a very expensive market, or at best fledgeling. But I came across a South African company, which I dare not name, that sold the very thing I was going to develop, at the right price. So, why bother re-inventing the wheel, just sell their kit?
Except it didn't work... I spent a massive amount of time, many hundreds of pounds, bought their kit, sold some of it, bought it back, hundreds of emails, all grief and lies.
In an effort to get to grips with the causees of all these failures I fitted one of their ecus to my roadgoing mini at the time (the same one I put my ecu on), just doing the sparks. What I found was that every now and again, I would get random misfires, and then it would run well. So, part of the ecu capability was logging, and I logged everything, in turn. What I found, astonishingly, was that at times the ecu would reset itself, as if from a cold start. On its own, a bit strange, but why? It turned out that the supply from the ignition switch on my mini wasn't clean - it intermittently cut, causing the ecu to reset. On points I never saw it...
Anyway, the SA ecu had bigger issues, on a customer engine the thing would backfire all the time, run backwards, all the crap you could imagine. It turned out to be a dos based setup screen that conflicted with the windows gui. Effectively it fired the injectors on power up to clear them, but somehow the dos setup wasn't overwritten by the windows gui, and the coil drivers thought they were injectors...
After hundreds of emails, during which the lying cheating SA batstewards denied they had a problem and blamed me, I offered to help them sort their product out, they refused my offer. So that was that, lost time, money, goodwill, a year or more of my life, put down to experience. And electronics and old cars don't allways mix
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With respect, while that is undeniably a bad experience and obviously caused you pain, it is not everybody's experience
I built an early Megasquirt that was fitted to a turbo conversion I built, 2ltr 8v vauxhall, it was then transferred to a 1.8 small block vx engine I fitted bike throttle bodies to
Both ran perfectly fine for many years, and in the case of the 1.8 upset many a golf gti at the traffic lights in Bradford
DuncanCallum
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Megasquirt or emerald both reliable.
Also the rover MEMs systems solid not very tuneable but very robust.
Sounds like that SA system was just a bit ****
Also the rover MEMs systems solid not very tuneable but very robust.
Sounds like that SA system was just a bit ****
I had an emerald on my zetec silver striker jenvey throttle bodies. It was one if the very first ones from Dave walker. I had all sorts of problems with it. To be fair, I spoke to Dave regularly on the phone but between us we just couldn't get it sorted. And we gave up and I got a full refund. I replaced it with a gems unit, fired up straight away and ran sweet even before it was properly tuned.
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I converted the Xflow in my locost to EFI using an Emerald ECU and a set of Kawasaki throttle bodies about 15 years ago and apart from a problem with the TPS which was supplied by Emerald it has missed a beat . My old GTM that had an electronic ignition system conversion however was nothing but trouble even after a 2nd kit was fitted so points and condenser sorted that
I used to compete in the standard class of the MGCC speed championship. The rules required me to retain the distributor. So I fitted an electronic trigger like Powerspark and an Aldon Amethyst to provide a taylored advance curve. I was unable to get the Amethyst to work properly. When Aldon tested it on my car they found there was a source of electro magnetic interference that was upsetting it. That probably explains why I have been unable to get a clean spark signal on my data logger. Aldon were unable to identify the source of EMI so kindly refunded the cost of the Amethyst. They had put a lot of time into solving it.
Indeed, maybe I should have kept that to myself. But, the point was, the ignition feed to the unit had issues, issues that never showed themselves on points. These in dizzy transistor switch points replacement things - if anything will fail and leave you stranded it's these. So points for me or original spec electronics on my minis.
I have a 1st gen emerald ecu here that I ran my 2l metro on, it worked fine.
