DIY_EFI Digest Sunday, 13 October 1996 Volume 01 : Number 312 In this issue: Re: Ignition Project... or..."That dog don't hunt" joke of the day Re: Using pc parts hooray! See the end of the digest for information on subscribing to the DIY_EFI or DIY_EFI-Digest mailing lists. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jim Armstrong Date: Sat, 12 Oct 1996 13:45:54 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: Ignition Project... or..."That dog don't hunt" >From: Mark Pitts >Subject: IGNITION PROJECT > > >Objective: Replace the distributor and points with a blob with some = >inteligence. >Reasons: My engine is a 4 pot normally aspirated 1.5 liter engine. Its = >distributor is shot, and needs replacing. It eats points, and condensers = >and coils, and no there is no fault, all spitfires do this! > This comment has nothing to do with what you propose doing though I would refer you to other threads regarding adapting other oem systems to your purpose. My Problem is with your basic premise or "reason" in which you blithely claim that there is "no fault". There is a "fault" and it's name is Lucas. To ascribe such failures to Triumph is silly, the only way the mfr is at fault is for installing anything from that supplier and, at that time in Britain, there may have been little choice. There's no magic in original equipment design for conventional ignition. There's only shoddy manufacturing and Lucas in mid-century is synonymous with "socialist government mandate", failure, and "shoddy". And it's amazing how much more reliable those cute little cars become when you remove any part, with possible exception of lamps, having to do with Lucas and replace it with OEM Bosch or Delco. This includes all ignition including the ballast resistor which should be replaced with part & value designed for the Coil. Jim Armstrong Been there, done that. ------------------------------ From: "William A. Sarkozy" Date: Sat, 12 Oct 1996 19:54:56 -0700 Subject: joke of the day Question: Why to the English drink warm beer? Answer: Because Lucas makes refrigerators, too. ------------------------------ From: Jennifer Rose Date: Sat, 12 Oct 1996 22:17:19 -0700 Subject: Re: Using pc parts hooray! >Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 22:25:52 -0500 >X-Sender: pantera@xxx.com >To: diy_efi@xxx.edu >From: pantera@xxx.com (David Doddek) >Subject: Re: Using pc parts >Sender: owner-diy_efi@xxx.edu >Reply-To: diy_efi@xxx.edu > >much deletion > >>That's why, in another post on a diff. thread (I think), I asked for >>discussion about modifying OEM EFI controllers. Seems like that may >>be the most efficient, quickest, satisfying way to go. >> >> >>Tom Cloud >> >> >Modifying an oem controller would be easy with the opcode list, processor >info and schematic. Do you happen to have that for any particular >manufacture? If you do then I could give you some ideas on what to do. > >David J. Doddek |pantera@xxx.com >Owner SGD Electronics & Development Engr for Caterpillar |h 309 685-7965 >Formula SAE Team Sidewinder 94-95 |w 309 578-2931 >89 T-bird SC, 69 Fairlane w/SGD EFI |fx 217 428-4686 >74 Pantera w/Electromotive Tec-II Twin turbos and Nitros | >Hey, If you are going to go fast, go REEEAAL FAST. | > > I would like to find out about GM controllers for tune port injection. Hope to see more info on the subject oem,if any one would like to share. Thanks Vance, javer96@xxx.net ------------------------------ End of DIY_EFI Digest V1 #312 ***************************** To subscribe to DIY_EFI-Digest, send the command: subscribe diy_efi-digest in the body of a message to "Majordomo@xxx. A non-digest (direct mail) version of this list is also available; to subscribe to that instead, replace "diy_efi-digest" in the command above with "diy_efi".