[Luce]

I got mine started last night. It started and ran after only 3 seconds of cranking, but loaded up and stalled. I made a little control panel that let me turn on Megasquirt, MDS, fuel pump, injectors, and the fan independently, so I then turned off the injectors and cranked again to clear the flood, try again.

I had (as best you can without it running) dialed in 10deg static advance, but forgot to turn off the advance curve and zero trigger offset, so it was running 0 deg. Fixed that, reduced the fuel pressure (cheating to get an idle) and had an idle. I'm having communication issues I need to clear up. The gauges on the computer would freeze, and it wasn't flashing.

Now that I can make it start idle and rev a bit, I'll get the pipes finished and O2 sensor installed, and fix a coolant leak in my lower radiator hose.

Time to read the MSextra forum and see if there's a common problem and solution to my com problem.

I'm really stoked! MS is a super cool setup.

One piece of advice I can give to anyone messing with MS, or any fuel injection system... check each and every little subsystem one by one as best you can before you have it all together and ready to crank. I first plumbed up the fuel system, put power to the pump directly, and checked for the proper pressure, sniffed the throttle body for no leaky injectors. Then spin the dizzy and verify spark and injector noise and sensor readings. Then I cranked the engine with no fuel pump or injectors, and a drizzle of gas to hear a few cylinders kick over to verify ballpark timing, THEN add power to the fuel pump and injectors. And do anything you can to get comfortable with the software. Exciting stuff!!!