Mx is still alive look what he has done :magna:
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Hey guys
i know i have been absent for awhile or atleast not the rabid poster I once was. Still i just figure you could appreciate my current build. Its about 90% finished. Long story short I took a 95 transam and stuck the guts in a beater 94 nissan pickup. So far the truck runs but i have yet to drive it out of the garage/
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Header clearance was pretty good at about 4 inches.
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A pic of the front end as it sits not with my radiator and tranny cooler in place.
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from DIY, and a Gpio that I ordered and assembled myself. This last part was the most hair raising as most of you know im not a solder monkey. I havent gotten into the gpio much more than powering it on and nothing exploding though so i still hope i did everything correctly. My nigling issues at the moment are with the MS itself. Both my TPS and opti 12 volt outputs arent putting out 12+. They put out .02 etc for some reason. And when i just run a 12+ to where i need it the opti works fine but the tps values still do not read in a linear fashion. Before they would read constant high and now they just climb as long as the unit is powered on. And to make sure the coil would fire correctly i had to wire in a 1k resistor to 12+ as a pullup.
So if any of you MS gurus could tell me where or how to trouble shoot my issues here then i could atleast call the ems finished and move on with making sure the gpio works as intended.
Also my idea of piggying into the signal for injector bank 1 to run my tach does not work it turns out i need to figure out a way to get a scaling current 1-12 volts to run my tach.
Anyway more posts pics and maybe even a vid to come if there is interest otherwise i gues i will skulk back to internet ananimity, kinda like all the WI info I flooded the site with on several occasions.
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![](https://www.miataturbo.net/attachments/build-threads-57/50896-mx-still-alive-look-what-he-has-done-magna-img_0002.jpg?dateline=1343794571)
Header clearance was pretty good at about 4 inches.
![](https://www.miataturbo.net/attachments/build-threads-57/50897-mx-still-alive-look-what-he-has-done-magna-img_0003.jpg?dateline=1343794571)
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A pic of the front end as it sits not with my radiator and tranny cooler in place.
![](http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s205/magnamx-5/woot.jpg)
LT1 LT4 L99 Installer Package #2 DIYAutoTune.com
from DIY, and a Gpio that I ordered and assembled myself. This last part was the most hair raising as most of you know im not a solder monkey. I havent gotten into the gpio much more than powering it on and nothing exploding though so i still hope i did everything correctly. My nigling issues at the moment are with the MS itself. Both my TPS and opti 12 volt outputs arent putting out 12+. They put out .02 etc for some reason. And when i just run a 12+ to where i need it the opti works fine but the tps values still do not read in a linear fashion. Before they would read constant high and now they just climb as long as the unit is powered on. And to make sure the coil would fire correctly i had to wire in a 1k resistor to 12+ as a pullup.
So if any of you MS gurus could tell me where or how to trouble shoot my issues here then i could atleast call the ems finished and move on with making sure the gpio works as intended.
Also my idea of piggying into the signal for injector bank 1 to run my tach does not work it turns out i need to figure out a way to get a scaling current 1-12 volts to run my tach.
Anyway more posts pics and maybe even a vid to come if there is interest otherwise i gues i will skulk back to internet ananimity, kinda like all the WI info I flooded the site with on several occasions.
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Update apperently getting home at 7am after working 12's is not th ebest time to work on your car. I accidentally flashed the gpio firmware onto the ms2. Now i have since erased the gpio firmware and relaoded the bootstrap, part of the ms2 firmware, but i cant seem to complete a laod of the actual ms 3.whatever code onto the ecu to bring it back to working order. Is there anyone out there with a stim and, or more knowledge and ability than i posses who would flash this thing for me or tell me just how screwed i am?
I would contact DIY but its sunday and, im not sure they like it when i bug them about stuff.
I would contact DIY but its sunday and, im not sure they like it when i bug them about stuff.
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Update apperently getting home at 7am after working 12's is not th ebest time to work on your car. I accidentally flashed the gpio firmware onto the ms2. Now i have since erased the gpio firmware and relaoded the bootstrap, part of the ms2 firmware, but i cant seem to complete a laod of the actual ms 3.whatever code onto the ecu to bring it back to working order. Is there anyone out there with a stim and, or more knowledge and ability than i posses who would flash this thing for me or tell me just how screwed i am?
I would contact DIY but its sunday and, im not sure they like it when i bug them about stuff.
I would contact DIY but its sunday and, im not sure they like it when i bug them about stuff.
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Ok quick update guys the gpio is now working it turned out to be a pressure issue, I swapped out the force motor and now it seems to work fine I have invested in shadow dash and its pretty damn cool from what I have seen so far. But I wonder if someone would direct me as to how to display my vehicle speed output from the gpio unto the gauges as the tablet I am using right now does not have gps capabilities.
So how about it fellas send me a link or breack down what I have to do modify my ini files etc to get the gauges I want on shadow dash. Thanks in advance guys.
So how about it fellas send me a link or breack down what I have to do modify my ini files etc to get the gauges I want on shadow dash. Thanks in advance guys.
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non magna speak explanation
MSGPIO work now. Shadow dash is cool. How I make shadow dash show gauge I want but have no option to select? i.e vss output speedo reading or even odometer if possible. Trans temp would be nice as well but not as big a deal as speedo output.
Someone school me in this **** or point me to a link that explains it.
MSGPIO work now. Shadow dash is cool. How I make shadow dash show gauge I want but have no option to select? i.e vss output speedo reading or even odometer if possible. Trans temp would be nice as well but not as big a deal as speedo output.
Someone school me in this **** or point me to a link that explains it.
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non magna speak explanation
MSGPIO work now. Shadow dash is cool. How I make shadow dash show gauge I want but have no option to select? i.e vss output speedo reading or even odometer if possible. Trans temp would be nice as well but not as big a deal as speedo output.
Someone school me in this **** or point me to a link that explains it.
MSGPIO work now. Shadow dash is cool. How I make shadow dash show gauge I want but have no option to select? i.e vss output speedo reading or even odometer if possible. Trans temp would be nice as well but not as big a deal as speedo output.
Someone school me in this **** or point me to a link that explains it.