How a standalone SHOULDN'T be built

[therieldeal]

i think the clump of duct tape and silicone amuses me the most

not that this is a laughing matter, but seriously... wow

[Lex]

I will clean the mess up and remove any extraneous parts/wires and touch up any soldering/wiring that doesn't look right. I will then load code and make sure it runs on my own car before it will go out. Unless something big is fried it's salvageable. I also dislike that the MCU is soldered directly to the board and not in a socket - this makes upgrading to an MS2 a bitch!

[therieldeal]

jacob doesn't believe in MS2, lol

[nos92mx3]

yea i bought this from jacob last winter, needless to say, never ever again.

[matt_fulghum]

It's in desperate need of flux remover too!

[wheresthericego]

How a standalone should be built

I'm glad I bought mine from LEX!!!

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[Hot_Wheels]

man thats bad, ive talked to jacob before he seemed like a good guy i guess not though. I know a friend that live close to me, he has been running one of Jacobs ms1 set up for his EGT for about 3 months. The car has had some minor issues but most of it was just the learning curve learning how to tune it correctly, nothing to say the ecu was bad. i told my friend to pop his case open just to peak and see if his looks like that. Lex ive been on the miata sites alot and i know there seems to be a lot of ms info for those guys, and i was thinking of running all miata sensors for the DIS set up so i could run coil over plug and using the miata cam sensors and a crank sensor what do you think? i dont know if it was you or someone else but they said converting to the ford edis wasnt worth the problems.

[Kitty]

I'm glad I bought mine from LEX!!!

Fabricated by the master

red ground wires?

[yunvmyegt]

see now thats pretty....

[Shades]

I'm glad I bought mine from LEX!!!

Fabricated by the master

Definately need more duct tape and silicone!

[nos92mx3]

I'm glad I bought mine from LEX!!!

Fabricated by the master

Wheres the jb weld?

[yunvmyegt]

oh well atleast your getting it done right this time, how long ya thinking on it lex? oh and whats the average assembly time on those, im thinking about buying one?

[Lex]

oh well atleast your getting it done right this time, how long ya thinking on it lex? oh and whats the average assembly time on those, im thinking about buying one?

To fix that - hope to fix most things in an hour or so. I've just been so busy lately with the holidays ... grrr ... hope for it to be done tomorrow.

The assembly time depends on how many times you've done it and how good you are at soldering etc. I'd say that for a first timer it will take a good 4-6 hours to assemble. Then you'd need to flash software, set it up for the engine/configuration, do the wiring/harness work which will take longer than the assembly for most people and fire her up. Of course that is if you're doing everything yourself.

[Lex]

man thats bad, ive talked to jacob before he seemed like a good guy i guess not though. I know a friend that live close to me, he has been running one of Jacobs ms1 set up for his EGT for about 3 months. The car has had some minor issues but most of it was just the learning curve learning how to tune it correctly, nothing to say the ecu was bad. i told my friend to pop his case open just to peak and see if his looks like that. Lex ive been on the miata sites alot and i know there seems to be a lot of ms info for those guys, and i was thinking of running all miata sensors for the DIS set up so i could run coil over plug and using the miata cam sensors and a crank sensor what do you think? i dont know if it was you or someone else but they said converting to the ford edis wasnt worth the problems.

The simplest thing to do is run wasted spark. All you'd need is the miata CAS and I believe you can also use the stock BP DOHC disty. Coil over plug would also only need a CAS to work, but having 4 ignition drivers on the board is the tougher part.

The crank sensor is nice only if it increases your ignition resolution. A 60-2 wheel would be ideal but you'd have to mess with fitting it to the crank pulley. The later miatas came with a 4 tooth crank, twice the resolution of a 4 tooth CAS but hardly worth it. Also keep in mind that the extra resolution is only taken into calculation on the MS2, the MSI doesn't make use of it.

What I am getting at is that the simplest way to remove the disty is to run wasted spark, Miata style.

[yunvmyegt]

yea the soldering together wouldnt be the hard part for me i think the flashing it or whatever with the program, and the harness would take the most of my time...