I totally agree, if a customer is going to pay you to build and tune it its a waste of money. Just interested to know if you had played around on the side with one. Dont worry, im not going to put you down for having an opinion on it. To most it is not worth it, but i found it really fun to build and play around with and learnt a lot about engine management in the process. I was a uni student at the time so had spare time to read the massive manual that goes with it.
I built one for an old Z31 300zx Turbo. It was pretty easy to assemble, and with the stimulator pretty easy to get going. Now the real skill is being able to tune it properly (however there are a lot of base tunes floating around for different motors). I would say not possible for complying with emmissions, but good fun to play around with for an older motor.
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i got put down on the lexus forums for writing something bout megasquirt
here is the deal
if u have alot of time and u kno whow to diagnose stuff then build yrself a megasquirt
read the forums spend days even weeks researching it
then build it and make sure u solder properly
or buy prebuilt one
now wire it up and sort the niggly probs
if u dont have time or not to good on diagnosing then buy a microtech
megasquirt is a build yr own and tune yr own ecu
so if u understand that by all means buy one
i run a shop and if i told a cusotmer its 1000 dollars to build and wire a megasquirt
thats ok then i wil say it migh tbe another 1000 bucks to get it running thats what kills it
me as a shop cannot afford somehting i cannot give warranty on
if i buy an ecu form someone else and if fails i send it right back
if negasquirt fails then i have to resolder all the stuff or see where i fkt up
anyway its a good ecu no diff to microtech i guess but u have to sort the problems out yrself
so y would i bother when i can buy somehting for bit more wire it and it will start first go
then i say here take it to tuners i get paid see ya later
its aimed at backyarders thats y its so popular only on forums
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