Hey ES,
In my searching I noticed that you have a lot of hands-on with the MS ECUs. I'm working on installing am MS 2.4l in my 87 Raider. I'm mating it up to my KM148 (I already have the Pajero 7-bolt parts) but I'm wondering what your experiences are in dividing up the transmission control from the engine management. I'm wanting to eventually run an Megasquirt 2 but I thought it was worth asking if it's possible to run the engine on the factory computer without any of the transmission functions being utilized. On a basic level, I suspect it is possible but I know that transmission codes will be thrown and am not really sure about detrimental effects on the engine management side of the house. Since Mitsubishi spent a lot of time developing the fuel management maps for hot and cold weather, there's an obvious benefit to using the work they've already done on the engine going in my truck. On the other hand, the MS allows me to start with a clean slate and tune the maps to best suit my locale. The down side of the megasquirt is that tuning to work properly in hot and cold weather and for hot/cold start will take awhile. This is a truck i eventually want to take up into the mountains around Durango and Ouray and, with the Megasquirt, i don't have that terrain, altitude, or weather readily accessible in North Texas for developing a solid, general purpose map.
Not really asking for technical answers at this point. I'm just trying to figure out if the juice is worth the squeeze. The ideal situation would be to figure out how to take the fueling maps from the Mitsu ECU and plug that into the MS2 but I don't know if that's even possible.
Thanks,
James
In my searching I noticed that you have a lot of hands-on with the MS ECUs. I'm working on installing am MS 2.4l in my 87 Raider. I'm mating it up to my KM148 (I already have the Pajero 7-bolt parts) but I'm wondering what your experiences are in dividing up the transmission control from the engine management. I'm wanting to eventually run an Megasquirt 2 but I thought it was worth asking if it's possible to run the engine on the factory computer without any of the transmission functions being utilized. On a basic level, I suspect it is possible but I know that transmission codes will be thrown and am not really sure about detrimental effects on the engine management side of the house. Since Mitsubishi spent a lot of time developing the fuel management maps for hot and cold weather, there's an obvious benefit to using the work they've already done on the engine going in my truck. On the other hand, the MS allows me to start with a clean slate and tune the maps to best suit my locale. The down side of the megasquirt is that tuning to work properly in hot and cold weather and for hot/cold start will take awhile. This is a truck i eventually want to take up into the mountains around Durango and Ouray and, with the Megasquirt, i don't have that terrain, altitude, or weather readily accessible in North Texas for developing a solid, general purpose map.
Not really asking for technical answers at this point. I'm just trying to figure out if the juice is worth the squeeze. The ideal situation would be to figure out how to take the fueling maps from the Mitsu ECU and plug that into the MS2 but I don't know if that's even possible.
Thanks,
James