Foxbody Mustang 408 stroker. Looking for advise and feedback

[area351]

Hello all.  I just joined this site, in hopes of finding my best choice of EFI Standalone for my car.

I have a 90 Mustang with 351/408 stroker. AFR heads, biggest hydraulic cam you can get, etc. More details can and will be provided. But today I have some general questions. I have been surfing

the Megasquirt site, and become completely overwhelmed at the prospect of buying a MS3. I have a stock A9L compter in the car.



I have two goals:



Replace the A9L with a standalone

Eliminate the distributor, and go to a wastespark type system. (am on my third MSD distributor, and also , from reading , I would have better accuracy with coil packs)

From what I have read, this can be done either with an EDIS-8 Ford module, trigger wheel set up, and an aftermarket computer, or computer and driver module, also aftermarket.


Many guys are trying to do this with Megaquirt, and I read problem after problem, of confused MS customers , who have cars collecting dust, that wont run, after trying to install MS.



I am a pretty handy guy mechanically, but not as strong on the electrical side. I don’t read schematics all that well, but I am capable of wiring , etc, to a good degree. I don’t feel

like running 30 wires from inside the car to every injector, etc. I have all those connections. BUT Not opposed to a complete harness swap, either.


any advise of feedback would be appreciated.

Steve

[Stinger]

Our PiMPxs is MS3 based and is designed to solve these problems you've seen elsewhere. It uses the factory harness, simplifies information so you don't get bogged down by 300 pages of univeral MS3 documentation (we only give you the info that goes with your specific ECU/engine), and we offer the best Megasquirt support available via this forum.

With that said, if you want to avoid wiring and want it to "just work", get a stock Ford TFI distributor (MSD is lower quality than Ford distributor) and it "just works".

If you want to do EDIS-8 (or some other combination of trigger wheels, coils, etc), that's fine, but the stock harness obviously doesn't support this so you'll be doing some wiring from the ECU to the ignition module, coils, etc. It's not overly complicated and we can help you with that.

[area351]

Thanks very much for the info. any recommendations for where to find the best EDIS conversion data? Most of your guys on your forum at 2.3L guys.

[Stinger]

It's just a matter of asking in the PiMPxs section of the forum. There is no thread that covers your exact situation as everyone does things a little different (different coils, different ignition module, different crank trigger, etc.). The startup guide that's supplied with the ECU also lists what all 32 pins of the expansion connector do which helps to illustrate where the coil and trigger wires would run to.

It's really just a matter of running the wires, installing the parts on the engine, and very basic settings changes (we actually have some EDIS base tunes already). So there is nothing unknown about it, no "I think this will work". It's just a matter of asking for and implementing the information.

[n20capri]

Dude just get the PiMPxs and be done with it! lol. Once you get it you'll see how awesome it is. Install and setup is cake and support here is great! Read the startup guide and you'll be good to go. I did a write-up on my experience with the original PiMP ecu (have since upgraded to the xs and it's even awesome'er) - but it will give you the basics of how things work and what to look for. As mentioned the XS is better and newer but you'll get the idea.
www.mikemartinelli.com/index.php?p=news&title=stinger-performance-plug-in-microsquirt-powered-pimp-ecu