Progress Thread Hoopty v2.0 - It All Snowballed

[Mustang5L5]

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I’m burnt out. It’s been an absolute beating trying to get this car across the goal line.

Man, I know how you feel.

 

[hoopty5.0]

Man, I know how you feel.

Dude! So I've decided I'm spending the money to buy a new MS eventually, so I gotta save some money as itll be a minute. So, I pivot to the pile of parts I have laying around for the bronco. Working on getting the gauges in the dash to work. Wiring in the tach adapter, 4 wires, simple job. Doesnt work. I just cant win man. Everything is fighting.

 

[General karthief]

I feel you're pain, I had two WINS this week!!
Sadly can't remember either one.....

 

[95BlueStallion]

Mine runs and still looks like this. Ive had house projects, and then a complete lack of interest lately. I have an MS3, Box R intake, $5k wheels and tires just sitting there waiting. Still need to finish molding the front lip on too. All this to say, you're kicking my ass in the motivation field.

 

[hoopty5.0]

Mine runs and still looks like this. Ive had house projects, and then a complete lack of interest lately. I have an MS3, Box R intake, $5k wheels and tires just sitting there waiting. Still need to finish molding the front lip on too. All this to say, you're kicking my ass in the motivation field.

Tell me about it. Working on a new fence in the back yard currently

 

[hoopty5.0]

Well, I got the borrowed MS installed and booted up the computer only to realize it doesnt have bluetooth.
I threw away my Serial to USB cable because... why would I ever need that again? Sigh. .
Tomorrow is the day!

 

[Mustang5L5]

I need to figure out if I can use Bluetooth on mine

 

[hoopty5.0]

I need to figure out if I can use Bluetooth on mine

You would think on the newer, fancier models it would be a basic feature. But you gotta mod the unit for it to work

 

[hoopty5.0]

Ok so. New megasquirt doesn’t have Bluetooth. Has a serial cable.

Laptop doesn’t have serial port

Ordered serial to USB adapter

After many tense hours, figured out adapter needs drivers installed, there are no drivers compatible with my ancient ass laptop that has the tuning software.

Download drivers on wife’s computer, download tuning software.

Still won’t connect to megasquirt

Battery on Mustang is dead

Loaned out charger, never returned.





I’m about done with cars

 

[hoopty5.0]

After sleeping on it, my theory is that the batt voltage was too low to power on the MS. Located charger, picking it up tomorrow. Try again this weekend.

Got a carburetor in my shopping cart on Summit just in case

 

[hoopty5.0]

Still no progress. I figured out the serial output connector on the MS is an M8 male. So Ive ordered a M8 female to USB cable for $30 and Im buying a used laptop this weekend in a last ditch effort to get this borrowed unit to work. My ancient windows 7 unit has quit working for the most part.

I want to reiterate how FRUSTRATING it is to have a car that starts and runs decent enough to drive but there are a couple neessary tweaks I need to make that prevent me from doing so and I cant do that due to things unrelated to the car. Sigh.

 

[General karthief]

Tech is "cool" right??