Build Thread The Hoopty Chronicles - New House, New garage, New Car?

[a91what]

That’s what bugs me about MS. There’s so much info out there that all says different things. The manual says use VR+/- and ground (3 wire). The guy that sold me the cam sync says use VREF and SGD for my +/- leads. I find info that supports both. So maybe it doesn’t matter?!

For what it’s worth, I’ve got the cam sync going to VREF and SGD, signal to VR2

I’ll give it all a try. If it starts on the first go, I’m buying a Lotto ticket

Ok sounds right, 3 wire will be a hall effect sensor. Needs 12v or 5v input gnd and signal out to vr2. Looks like your good to go, if you have troubles with cam sync we will need to add a pot resistor to r39 and tune it in.

 

[hoopty5.0]

Ok sounds right, 3 wire will be a hall effect sensor. Needs 12v or 5v input gnd and signal out to vr2. Looks like your good to go, if you have troubles with cam sync we will need to add a pot resistor to r39 and tune it in.

Cool. Thank you!

 

[5.0Thunder]

The thing I find with megasquirt is that I'll have some question where multiple answers are supported (similar to yours), then eventually after months of looking through other parts of the system or doing other research, the answer kind of just becomes obvious to me. It's like if you look at a sentence in chinese long enough, you'll eventually understand it. Lol

 

[hoopty5.0]

My hot parts are now ceramic coated. Going to hold off on pics until I see some color parts. Im excited!!!

 

[hoopty5.0]

Coatings by Coates killing it as usual

 

[slow84lx]

Nice looking parts! I really like the valve covers.

 

[hoopty5.0]

Nice looking parts! I really like the valve covers.

Thank you! I’m thrilled. They’re also going back, we are going to do some more stuff to them, we just needed to set them on the engine to make sure the rest of the plan was going to look alright. Intake is getting done as well.

 

[Davedacarpainter]

My granddaughter born December 6th. Congratulations on the baby!

Car will be there waiting for you so don’t fret about it. Enjoy the journey!

Congratulations Todd, beautiful little girl

 

[Davedacarpainter]

Thank you! I’m thrilled. They’re also going back, we are going to do some more stuff to them, we just needed to set them on the engine to make sure the rest of the plan was going to look alright. Intake is getting done as well.

Boy does that look good!

The headers look sweet

 

[hoopty5.0]

Boy does that look good!

The headers look sweet

Thank you! I’m really happy with it. Can’t wait til the teal goes on the intake and valve covers

 

[Chuckman]

i think someone got some glitter in your powdercoat

 

[5.0Thunder]

Man I love Scott's ceramics. He does cerakote too which looked great on Mike Hennessey's turbo kit. I need to have him do my on3 kit. lol

 

[hoopty5.0]

What happens if my engine harness doesn’t match the online diagrams? For 87-91 or 92-93 for that matter

 

[hoopty5.0]

The sensor signal, ground, and power wires don’t match the color codes above

 

[a91what]

Ok ring them out with a dmm

 

[General karthief]

Paint 'em

 

[5.0Thunder]

I want to say I read about the colors varying a tad from year to year, and that there are year-specific diagrams out there. I don't remember for sure though.

 

[hoopty5.0]

I spent several hours working on the coil mounts.

They don’t fit with the headers.


Time for plan B.

 

[A5literMan]

Coatings by Coates killing it as usual

Looks really cool. I really like that.

 

[Mustang5L5]

I'd defer to the FSM wiring diagrams over that online universal graphic. What year you need?