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Old 18th November 2009, 05:17 PM
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Default Megajolt DIY

Well I thought I'd be smart and take advantage of the strength of the pound and order my Megajolt direct from the states in a kit form. I got the TPS kit, programming cable, mounting brackets and a hard rev limiter for £80 delivered to the UK.... In 3 working days!

Its bloody hard to put it together though. I've seen bigger fleas than some of the components. But after 3 hours I'd finished it. I've dug out an old windows xp laptop from the IT cupboard at work. So I should be able to test it out with the loom and engine in the near future.

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Old 18th November 2009, 05:35 PM
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Well done mate

Looks horrible to do !
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Old 18th November 2009, 10:24 PM
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Looks great - how hard was it to assemble? I'm currently toying with ordering the kit from the US to put together over the xmas break.
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Old 18th November 2009, 10:30 PM
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That looks like you've done a good job there.

I never did get on that well with soldering, although I did design and build my own Oxygen senser based on a quad op-amp circuit. Grabbed the wrong end of the soldering iron a couple of times though

I looked into the MegaSquirt DIY kit, but I don't have a steady enough hand to do it myself*

Any ECU I buy is going to be pre-assembled

*I have some residual nerve damage from a diving accident, at times, I get really, really shaky hands - no, it's not the drink
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Old 18th November 2009, 10:41 PM
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Take a look at the Trigger wheels website loads of good stuff on there Ray
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Old 18th November 2009, 11:00 PM
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contact Ray Ward
on locostbuilders he suppliies them built and tested with cable and disc of advance curves etc about £110 he charged me ...
i cant do fiddly soldering with my sausages
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