I've talked for year on the forum about efi,ing my stroked FE Ford.
The tinkerer in me was all over MegaSquirt I think I made 2 post here about it ,I still like the idea and I understand the power.The tuning did hold me back,then my laptop died,my wifes ate a hard drive and the desk top also lost it's HD. I KNOW me,if I did MS I would never be done tuning I would always be messing with it.
I was at GoodGuys Ft.Worth and F.A.S.T. was running a sale on ez 2.0,about $250 less than Summit.
I got the Kit about 2 weeks later. The hardware is top notch and comes well packed. The instructions are also well done and easy to understand.
I began my install with the fuel system ,I decided to use my existing 1/2" fuel line as the return and added a 3/8" feed line. I used a Tanks Inc sump kit with the fuel pump included in the FAST kit. Pump is in the stock tank.
The Fast kit comes with a small 10 micron fuel filter but I felt it was too small so I reused my RobbMc Large fuel filter with a new 10 micron filter element. I then screwed the outlet of the filter to the inlet of the fuel pressure sensor manifold and clamped them both to the inside frame rail forward of the rear axle. Ran hard line forward outside the sub frame, and along the forward frame rail in the left front wheel well and into the engine compartment. The regulator is mounted low on the left front inner fender apron.
Of course the Throttle body is mounted to the intake manifold,I added a 1" open spacer instead of the 4 hole I ran with my 850 Demon. The first proplem came when I tried to install my air cleaner.
Im running a Spectra Pro Fab 14" dual snorkle set up that Im quite proud of. The ez TB moves the throttle blades up about an inch. The top of the linkage is about 1/8" above the air filter mount base and it has a TAB the sticks outward about 5/8" and it will not come close to clearing a drop base air filter. I have both a Moroso and what seems the normal GM type drop base air cleaner and everything hits the linkage. I first cut the TAB off and reshapped the inside of the drop base hit then just barely hit. In the end I cut the large hole off the top of the arm to ensure nothing hit.So if it has to be warrented I may be screwed.
After the hardware was installed it was time to wire it. The selling point is of course how few connections required,just click,click,click and run power and ground to the battery. WELL.... The problem with universal harness' is they dont fit anything. The other problem is me. I've worked hard to hide the wires in my engine bay nothing crossing over ,everything routed as clean as posible. The TB has a harness coming off the back center,it's about 36" long. The Computer harness has a TB harness about 18" long. In total they reach to the right upper kick panel fine. (Computer is mounted to right kick panel inside car). The problem is the harness on the back of the throttle body needs to be about 10-12" long to fit my sense order,With a nice 48" long one off the CPU.No problem I wire airplanes I'll just shoten the TB harness and use the wire to lengthen the CPU harnes....Nope. All the TB sensor wires are spliced in the TB harness includding 8 to 1 injector power wires,the splices are well spaced and very well done but no way to shorten that harness and lengthen the other without more wire. In the end I ran the TB harness through the firewall,basicly hard wiring the TB to the car,and connected it to the CPU harness. I ended up removing all the sleeving from the CPU harness and moved all the breakouts. After I know it all works Im going to go in and remove the unused wires from the harness to clean it up.
The kit uses a O2 sensor of course it also has a nice harness and it to was too short,I added about 16" and routed the harness through the floor to the header.
I routed the fuel pressure sensor along the right rocker panel then crossed behind the rear seat ,through floor to the fuel pressure sensor,the harnes was of course too short by 18"....
Power and ground was routed inside right rocker ,over right rear fender then to the trunk mounted battery,again 24" of 10ga wire completed the connection.
The dual fan control wires and ignition trigger wire to the front mounted MSD and fan relays run in the right fender well then into the engine compartment below the stock battery location,MSD is in the stock battery location.
The ignition /RPM pick up is triggered by a stock Duraspark distributer with the timing locked out and the roter phased at 30*BTDC. Two wire crank sensor harness is routed along the top of the intake on the right of the TB.
In the end the install looks like my carbed set up with an extra fuel line. The FAST engine control is just peaking out under the right dash high on the kick panel.
Thats it for the install details.
Set up and first drive in next post.
The tinkerer in me was all over MegaSquirt I think I made 2 post here about it ,I still like the idea and I understand the power.The tuning did hold me back,then my laptop died,my wifes ate a hard drive and the desk top also lost it's HD. I KNOW me,if I did MS I would never be done tuning I would always be messing with it.
I was at GoodGuys Ft.Worth and F.A.S.T. was running a sale on ez 2.0,about $250 less than Summit.
I got the Kit about 2 weeks later. The hardware is top notch and comes well packed. The instructions are also well done and easy to understand.
I began my install with the fuel system ,I decided to use my existing 1/2" fuel line as the return and added a 3/8" feed line. I used a Tanks Inc sump kit with the fuel pump included in the FAST kit. Pump is in the stock tank.
The Fast kit comes with a small 10 micron fuel filter but I felt it was too small so I reused my RobbMc Large fuel filter with a new 10 micron filter element. I then screwed the outlet of the filter to the inlet of the fuel pressure sensor manifold and clamped them both to the inside frame rail forward of the rear axle. Ran hard line forward outside the sub frame, and along the forward frame rail in the left front wheel well and into the engine compartment. The regulator is mounted low on the left front inner fender apron.
Of course the Throttle body is mounted to the intake manifold,I added a 1" open spacer instead of the 4 hole I ran with my 850 Demon. The first proplem came when I tried to install my air cleaner.
Im running a Spectra Pro Fab 14" dual snorkle set up that Im quite proud of. The ez TB moves the throttle blades up about an inch. The top of the linkage is about 1/8" above the air filter mount base and it has a TAB the sticks outward about 5/8" and it will not come close to clearing a drop base air filter. I have both a Moroso and what seems the normal GM type drop base air cleaner and everything hits the linkage. I first cut the TAB off and reshapped the inside of the drop base hit then just barely hit. In the end I cut the large hole off the top of the arm to ensure nothing hit.So if it has to be warrented I may be screwed.
After the hardware was installed it was time to wire it. The selling point is of course how few connections required,just click,click,click and run power and ground to the battery. WELL.... The problem with universal harness' is they dont fit anything. The other problem is me. I've worked hard to hide the wires in my engine bay nothing crossing over ,everything routed as clean as posible. The TB has a harness coming off the back center,it's about 36" long. The Computer harness has a TB harness about 18" long. In total they reach to the right upper kick panel fine. (Computer is mounted to right kick panel inside car). The problem is the harness on the back of the throttle body needs to be about 10-12" long to fit my sense order,With a nice 48" long one off the CPU.No problem I wire airplanes I'll just shoten the TB harness and use the wire to lengthen the CPU harnes....Nope. All the TB sensor wires are spliced in the TB harness includding 8 to 1 injector power wires,the splices are well spaced and very well done but no way to shorten that harness and lengthen the other without more wire. In the end I ran the TB harness through the firewall,basicly hard wiring the TB to the car,and connected it to the CPU harness. I ended up removing all the sleeving from the CPU harness and moved all the breakouts. After I know it all works Im going to go in and remove the unused wires from the harness to clean it up.
The kit uses a O2 sensor of course it also has a nice harness and it to was too short,I added about 16" and routed the harness through the floor to the header.
I routed the fuel pressure sensor along the right rocker panel then crossed behind the rear seat ,through floor to the fuel pressure sensor,the harnes was of course too short by 18"....
Power and ground was routed inside right rocker ,over right rear fender then to the trunk mounted battery,again 24" of 10ga wire completed the connection.
The dual fan control wires and ignition trigger wire to the front mounted MSD and fan relays run in the right fender well then into the engine compartment below the stock battery location,MSD is in the stock battery location.
The ignition /RPM pick up is triggered by a stock Duraspark distributer with the timing locked out and the roter phased at 30*BTDC. Two wire crank sensor harness is routed along the top of the intake on the right of the TB.
In the end the install looks like my carbed set up with an extra fuel line. The FAST engine control is just peaking out under the right dash high on the kick panel.
Thats it for the install details.
Set up and first drive in next post.
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