Buggy Megasquirt Project...

13-12-2005, 10:01 AM

Going to be Megasquirting the buggy over winter, gonna document my thoughts here, do photographic diary etc.....

Plan at the moment...

1) get some CB Fuel Injection end castings

2) modify a stock centre section to accept a Mondeo 2.0 zetec throttle body

3) John (Sunroof_64) has kindly agreed to build my megaquirt box in a deal for some odds and ends

4) the remainder of the mondeo Fi parts will be utilised wherever possible (pump, injectors etc should be well up to the job)

5) once the Fuelling is sorted and running nicely I will ditch the 009 dizzy and let megasquirt handle sparking duties also utilising an EDIS 4 box (prob from mondeo) and a wasted spark setup

depending on timescales and budgets the 1641 lump will be bored out for 94mm b+p either before the FI or at least ready for Bug Jam / Big Bang to take it down the strip. (doing a day trip to bug jam this year as my Bro in Law is over from the states!)

Task List

1) Order End Castings/Fuel Rails to collect in January - In Progress
2) find source for Mondeo parts - Done
3) Order Megasquirt Kit - In Progress
4) find out if 8mm copper tubing is good enough for fuel lines
5) work out how to get 8mm tubing plumbed into fueltank (out and return)
6) Sell Motorbike
7) lower buggy

fit smaller tyres to rear of buggy
9) swap front tyres on buggy
10) fab windscreen frame support and seperate dash from hood to make wiring/plumbing easier

wish me luck!

13-12-2005, 10:05 AM

good luck

13-12-2005, 12:40 PM

right , cool you started a thread

Soldering iron at the ready :-)

13-12-2005, 01:51 PM

Just to make things interesting I'm setting a budget of £500 for engine mods/megasquirt...

13-12-2005, 07:41 PM

looks so much easier to fit nitrous as well

13-12-2005, 11:09 PM

8mm tubing should just be big enough. I'd not use copper though - i used it before and while its OK it gets brittle and doesn't like rubbing against anything. Steel tube is cheap.

I drilled out the nut holding the outlet in the tank and fitted a 10mm tube into it. My return is currently a T into the breather on the filler neck. not ideal but works. Better to return into bottom of tank.

Get the relay board.
Check what injectors and get flyback board if needed.

have fun

20-12-2005, 05:23 AM

ordered my cb performance end castings yesterday (from texas bug shop, reckons he can get them cheaper than the cb wesite

), also noticed one of these on the cb website...

solves another problem... replaces the stock fuel tank outlet

also had another interesting phonecall yesterday of a work colleague, wants to know if i'd be interested in building westfields in my spare time for people who don't want to do it themselves but don't want to fork out 16k for a prebuilt one from westfield themselves - watch this space...

Garrick · 20-12-2005, 06:01 PM

liking your ideas Phil!!!

definately the way forward!

20-12-2005, 06:34 PM

drlas sold now so time to order the megasquirt

Coxy · 22-12-2005, 09:07 AM

Sounds like you've got a busy winter ahead! Who had the carbs in the end?

and we need regular updates of how your doing with pictures for the entire duration of the project!!!