Search found 9 matches

by robs
Tue Nov 17, 2009 6:55 pm
Forum: MS-II Ignition Setup, Tuning, and Troubleshooting
Topic: setting spark table to all zeros
Replies: 3
Views: 247

Re: setting spark table to all zeros

Can you get hold of the original advance curves for your distributor? That's what I worked from to build my table. Car ran well afterwards with electronics doing a better job than old worn mechanicals. I haven't felt the need to tweak it since.

Just to be sure, you did set your entire advance table ...
by robs
Tue Nov 17, 2009 2:46 am
Forum: MS-II Ignition Setup, Tuning, and Troubleshooting
Topic: setting spark table to all zeros
Replies: 3
Views: 247

Re: setting spark table to all zeros

Best to set your entire advance table to 10 and the trigger offset to 10 too; but all at 0 should also work.

But a caution... if MS is doing the sparking then there is no way the distributor can "control all timing"; it will still spark when MS decides. When first installing my MSII, I tried ...
by robs
Sat Aug 15, 2009 9:58 pm
Forum: MS-II Ignition Setup, Tuning, and Troubleshooting
Topic: VR input in parallel with coil?
Replies: 6
Views: 386

Now working, but... please explain

Once again, following up to my own question.

I have done as I said, added a pull up for pin 36, and used this in place of the VR input to the Bosch 123 module. Started it up and it ran, but was ratty as get out at higher RPMs. Then it dawned on me that I had forgotten to invert Spark Output as per ...
by robs
Thu Aug 13, 2009 6:06 pm
Forum: MS-II Ignition Setup, Tuning, and Troubleshooting
Topic: VR input in parallel with coil?
Replies: 6
Views: 386

Re: VR input in parallel with coil?

Thanks for this. I've checked several logs and the only time I see Trigger change value is occasionally during cranking, and there are no unexpected zero RPMs. I think the occasional trigger changes may be due to cross/back/misfires while cranking (killing cranking speed pretty quickly). They aren't ...
by robs
Wed Aug 12, 2009 6:40 pm
Forum: MS-II Ignition Setup, Tuning, and Troubleshooting
Topic: VR input in parallel with coil?
Replies: 6
Views: 386

Re: VR input in parallel with coil?

Hello again. More ignition problems.

Having got it all running with VR tach input, direct coil output, and all squirting controlled by the MSII, the car has a pretty bad miss, especially at idle. The miss disappears if I switch back to the original ignition module doing the sparking (have to swap ...
by robs
Tue Aug 04, 2009 10:13 pm
Forum: Tuning Fuel and Air
Topic: Variable fuel pressure regulator
Replies: 1
Views: 214

Re: Variable fuel pressure regulator

Thanks, Lance, for clearing that up. It gave me the confidence to press on with tuning the generated VE table and the car's running not too badly now.

But I have another injection question.

I have it running on one squirt per cycle, but the idle's slightly lumpy and I thought that changing to two ...
by robs
Sat Aug 01, 2009 9:33 pm
Forum: Tuning Fuel and Air
Topic: Variable fuel pressure regulator
Replies: 1
Views: 214

Variable fuel pressure regulator

I have replaced my '85 Peugeot's L-Jet controller with MS II V3.0, keeping all the original sensors and injectors (except the AFM, which was starting to get patchy). The standard setup has a vacuum line to the fuel pressure regulator to reduce pressure under low load. Of course this is pretty common ...
by robs
Wed Jul 22, 2009 10:39 pm
Forum: MS-II Ignition Setup, Tuning, and Troubleshooting
Topic: VR input in parallel with coil?
Replies: 6
Views: 386

Re: VR input in parallel with coil?

Well, rather than understand the problem I just changed plan.

I have gone with ignition first, but still letting the mechanicals determine advance (setting the entire advance table to 0). Car's running now with the Bosch module unplugged and MS making sparks. I can press on with everything else ...
by robs
Wed Jul 22, 2009 12:00 am
Forum: MS-II Ignition Setup, Tuning, and Troubleshooting
Topic: VR input in parallel with coil?
Replies: 6
Views: 386

VR input in parallel with coil?

I'm installing a newly assembled MSII/V3 board to an '85 Peugeot 505. The car has Bosch LE2 Jetronic with a gradually failing AFM and a MS seemed a good project to get it running well again.

I am trying to be systematic moving to MS, starting with hooking it up as a data logger (more or less ...