twin carb very small block

[turbojolt]

to be honest i was looking for something i could do myself more rather then spending money on people mapping my e.c.u


and i think i want carbs because i want it to be a old school car with the old sr bumpers and so on

[Stuart]

its a 1.2 engine, its cost is about 20pence.... ideal to use for leaning howto map if you lunch it, you spend 20 mins fitting a new one and "dont do that" again in the ecu .

old skool looks with modern skool technology is cool


oh and getting carbs on the cheap invariably means the spindles will be bent/setup badly and you will enter the land of crap running etc that the old wives tales portray... good reliable carbs cost reasonable cash im affraid.

[turbojolt]

urmmm you seem to have a good point there Stuart i hate it when people use logic against me lmao


think i might have to do that to be honest but would have to wait until i car get a garage to store a second play about car in


would it be better to buy a 1.2i nova for that rather then the carb model then

[Stuart]

If I were in your/anyone with a 1.2/no budget's position I'd use it as an excuse to learn as much as physically possible with ECU's and playing with all kinds of ideas and theorys since you wont set the world alight with performance so insurance should be cheap and the engine itself is fairly robust + cheap to replace should you go too far .

Learning on expensive stuff isnt as much fun, trust me!

[turbojolt]

would be a good learning exercise to be honest

would be top knowing how to make engine maps how hard is it to set up a mega-squirt system what do you have to do set up the fueling and spark and so on

[Stuart]

piece of piss to setup. its the time and subleties that take the effort. But there is tons and tons of info about.

Ideally you want a wideband lambda sensor but you could get around that with a normal narrow band sensor and then go very rich on full load, pull a spark plug out immediately and see how sooted up they are and tune to the plugs (old skool).

Spark is a new world of intersting stuff. Lots of DIY info on an australian website if you google DIY det/knock sensor etc etc

[turbojolt]

Stuart if you know how to do it why don't you make a easy bit by bit article about it for all use noobs in the world of engine managment


help us learn

asso how easy are they to wire up

[Lee]

, he's never done it. He's suggesting you experiment and work it out for yourself. Then YOU would be in the best position to write a useful guide

[turbojolt]

i suppose has no one here set up a megasquirt system then

i could be the go to guy when it come to doing it lmfao

[Lee]

i suppose has no one here set up a megasquirt system then

i could be the go to guy when it come to doing it lmfao

I meant he's never MPI'd up a 1.2 before The mapping software is uber easy to pick up and theres loads of help online if you need it too.