What's a Haynes Worth?

[norton]

I can echo some of these thoughts.

I can't help myself when it comes to building new things. I've not long finished a load of audio stuff inc a tasty valve amp, valve phono stage, cd player and I built a turntable including machining the arm from scratch.

Now that I've achieved my goal would I sell them? No way! They're there ready to be used whenever I want and the same will go for this car. It will spend extended periods sat in the garage once done not being used. These are just improvement times to help soothe my bug.

Expect the engine to grow, then obtain a supercharger, then a duratec, then this, then that. If you want something to entertain yourself with fit a megaquirt ecu. Losing the air flow meter will yield a healthy gain (the ms uses a map sensor) as will a performance orientated tune. Once you have that fitted and working you can then allow for any further upgrades.

[CTWV50]

Originally Posted by norton

If you want something to entertain yourself with fit a megaquirt ecu. Losing the air flow meter will yield a healthy gain (the ms uses a map sensor) as will a performance orientated tune. Once you have that fitted and working you can then allow for any further upgrades.

Skov (John) made his own piggyback ECU, when I say made, he designed the circuit board, had the pcb made and then soldered on the components, and then programmed it too!

Why don't you convert it to a short range performance electric vehicle John, now that would be mental, and entertaining!

[norton]

Blood. E. Hell.

[skov]

Originally Posted by CTWV50

Skov (John) made his own piggyback ECU, when I say made, he designed the circuit board, had the pcb made and then soldered on the components, and then programmed it too!

Yeah, I never quite finished that...
It will run the engine, but I need to write a load more software to make it practical to use.



Thanks for the replies guys.
I haven't completely decided what I'm doing yet... but I don't think hanging onto it for ever more is going to be practical. Maybe if it was the size of a turntable, but a car does take up a fair bit of space!

Porkchop - I won't take less than 83p and a kit cat. Curly Wurly's are far too complex for my simple mind.