Well, the fuel mixture on my Spitfire is, anyway. Always knew it was… you can tell by the smell! But, today I installed my Innovate LC-2 wideband oxygen sensor (WBO2) and wired it into the Megasquirt and confirmed it. I didn’t take the car for a drive to take any readings under load, but the [...]
Put a header on the Yaris today. Picked it up cheap from someone who bought it 3-4 months ago and decided they didn’t want to use it. It’s about a $350 piece, I got it for $165 shipped. Cool. And it’s a nice piece, too. Most of the available headers for the Yaris are copies [...]
Today was the day. No fuel injection yet, but completely computer-controlled ignition timing. A major milestone in development! I’ve spent a lot of time over the past 2 days researching both the stock Spitfire distributor advance curves and “theory” on how ignition timing should be tuned. With that knowledge, I created a base ignition timing [...]
Nothing Earth-shattering today. Installed the coil pack, the MS junction box and the EDIS module and started on the wiring harness. Soldered all of the connections on the harness for reliability. Got the harness from the EDIS to the coils and the crank sensor done. It’s a couple inches too long, but I guess that’s [...]
Not as much excitement today as yesterday (well, except for the new Bond movie that I saw this morning), but I got a lot accomplished. First thing I did when I went out to start work in the garage this afternoon was start the car. Stone cold, didn’t touch the throttle (I usually pump it [...]
Overall, I’d have to say this was a pretty awesome day. I had good success in the garage, I got to take my beloved Spitfire for a drive for the first time in two weeks, and my dear wife made me some delicious chocolate chip cookies! I started my morning at the crack of 10:00 [...]
It’s probably the only virtue I have! I’m finally making some progress, though. Huge thanks to my buddy Jeff at First Place Engineering for taking my spare crankshaft pulley and my 36-tooth motorcycle sprocket and making them one. A little time on a lathe and some precision welding was all it took, two thinks I [...]
First, my apologies for being a sucky blogger. I’m sure a blog should be updated more than once every 4 months! Maybe now that I’m doing more with the car, I’ll post more? Maybe. Meanwhile… Let me preface this post by stating that my Spitfire lives in my garage. With the top down. I drive [...]