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can't argue with that - makes a lot of sense. My 1.8 Zetec will be coming out in the next couple of weeks, to be replaced by a new 2.0. It's been fun having the zetec in the kit car, and it easily kept up with the 2.0 pinto's of my friends. all in all a relatively cheap upgrade without a lot of drama.

no problem, here's my map attached.

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As promised a few new pics - proper air filters now fitted to carbs. MJLJ comfortably located on cabin side of bulkhead, and mounted on the same fixings as the coil pack

Hi Guys,
Thanks for the kind comments on my Zetec conversion, I must admit I'm very pleased with the results. I will post a couple of new pics over the weekend, showing the new air filters, and the MJ location.

These pics are of my Robin Hood 2B shortly after carrying out the conversion to 1.8 Zetec. I am running 4 x bike carbs, on a home made manifold, and ignition by Megajolt. I am running the Map option, with a threaded take off into each inlet tract, with four individual pipes into the balance plenum (...

Hi Brent, Hopefully the problem is resolved, tests again today show that communication with the laptop is good and the controller is taking care of the advance correctly. I'll get a few miles in over the next week or so, and keep you informed of any developments - though I have a good feeling about ...

I've just been running the tests again, everything connected as usual, when the engine stumbled for a brief second or two, then picked up again and the readings appeared on the laptop! Everything seems normal, RPM steady, advance dancing around 22-24 degrees. After yesterday's testing when the lapto...

Interesting- so in summary, the MJLJ plugged into the engine's harness drives the ignition advance to 15 degrees, but with it unplugged, it goes to 10. That would only mean the MJLJ is sending the SAW signal back to the EDIS module in response to a PIP signal. Where in your ignition map do you have...

Hi Bob, Any updates on further testing? Have you been able to observe the controller work for any extended period? No change from yesterday - still showing 'blank' map, and no readings for rpm, adv etc One thing to check is the PIP connection from the EDIS module. if you have an intermittent connec...

Hey, that's good- it seems the controller is alive. Let's clarify some things: Next I clicked to get ignition config:- All bins are correct to 'my' map, red moving 22/23/24, RPM correct, advance moving correctly So when you clicked the button to read the configuration, it populated the main ignitio...

Hi Brent, I wasn't intending any critiscism, I'm glad you're covering every step, I certainly need everything spelling out. Now for this morning's testing: Bench test of the oscillator, QG1 shows 2.52v at the pin diagonal to pin 1 I then fitted the MJLJ back into the car, connected up the laptop, an...

Ah- so to clarify, what behaviour did you observe before, when you thought it was working correctly? What I usually do for testing is to fire up the software with the MJLJ powered down. As soon as you power up the controller, it will connect and read the runtime data- and the timeout message goes a...

I opened up an 'empty' map on my laptop - zeroes in all bins, then clicked on the icon to retrieve configuration from the MJLJ. Screen flickered once, but the view stayed the same. I then opened a Zetec map on the laptop and attempted to write it to the MJ, with the same result.