Bill Shurvinton

I have contacts in the cheese engine world

MS2 is IO limited compared to MS1 so you cannot take advantage of a lot of the processing power unless you add the GPIO board. Stepper vs PWM idle aside its a matter of taste as to which CPU does it for you. You can certainly implement more advanced algorithms on MS2, but few actually tune that last few %

Ah good. Helps in my negotiations with him

For ign only MJ is good. They are now made by a friend of mine as I simply couldn't support the demand along with MS. Keep meaning to do a SM redesign but other things get in the way. Your $50 becomes £45 by the time parcel farce have fleeced you...

Something else I intend to get under ECU control at some point

I'll think you'll find that PTP were selling those to caterham long before lotus came along. I am not aware of any lotus development on that engine. (but could be wrong).

ah yes oops. Have I met Dan? I assume he was loitering somewhere at sodbury?

And a big slobbery Dog that they all love

well getting out next week could be hard as half term, but If I have a week to plan I can usually have a day off. Ah the joy of daughters. I hope one of them wants to learn to weld oneday:)

I'll do some research. Certainly all the stuff I am used to playing with no one cares. I suspect footman james who do my kit car wouldn't be bothered, which is handy as nearly everything on that is not like any other westfield.

I'll look in the diary and see what I can get a pass out for. You should have said you could get the welding rig to me

Thanks, might take you up on the offer once I have worked out what I don't have in the pile of bits. Oh and once I have got it muddy for the first time , just in case I slide it into a tree. Well it will do me nicely for the time being until I decide to do something silly with it. One bag is going down over a 2-3 day period. So there is a small leak to find. But not a huge panic. Well as many insurers don't care about aftermarket ECUs, not sure why an aftermarket EAS would be a problem. I'll need to phone and ask them. Either than or just fit the new controller in the old case and no one would know.

Well the EAS still isn't working, although as I have said I fancy getting GPIO to run that. As soon as I get the bits to fridge so he can get it an MOT I'll get it up to my hampshire hill and start on sorting the table switching out. Zuz has done a lot. I need to fit the new tailgate and reaplce the nearside bits but as far as I can see it comes with almost a complete set of body panels. Heated seats are still bust, but who cares. Engine is sweet, to the point where when Dave Haynes put in on a trailer it he honestly thought it still had a 3.9 in there! So hopefully it will get better and better over the summer. Mind you my westfield has been in bits for 5 years now...still with a se7en and a range rover I have nearly all the bases covered

Yeah, that's what I said... Only got about half the history so far, need to read more. Safe to say I need to keep up the tradition of making it better and better as a high bar has been set.

Hmm. IE at work doesn't like this forum. Curious. Firefox here we go: Geoff: I am hoping to get the truck registered as a company test mule. As a result I think I should have a way around the fact that is it changed. but will be looking carefully into this. And 'that truck' is now 'my truck' David: I've seen the Kicker. Thing is I want control, not just the ability to reset. I have the hardware that I can program myself so it seemed like a fun challenge to try and use it to prove the capabilities of MS beyond engine control. The read 4 pots and adjust until you reach the cal values is easy enough to do. Its the error handling that is more interesting as is getting more ability to control from the driving seat. Lets see. I have to get the thing through an MOT first...

Well you will be pleased to know that this is now recognised as the defacto 'how to MS a rover V8' thread amongst UK forums!

As the proud new owner of the truck that Fridge is desperately trying to get out of welding for me I'm quite looking forward to getting to grips with what the air springs can do. I have noticed that most people here seem to want to remove them and put coils on. Is this because people know where they are with coils, or becuase the EAS controller is a locked box that requires either huge investment in diagnostic tools or wallet emptying trips to a dealer? As the trucks main use for me (as well as a tow vehicle) is as a demonstrator for what MS can do I am currently planning to try replacing the EAS controller with an MS GPIO board. From a first scan of the specs I have more than enough IO and the control algorithm is hardly onerous unless I am missing something. Not likely to happen immediately as, with all my projects work and kids slow me down, but hopefully something by the summer. I suspect this will end up as a bit of a curiousity, but if anyone is interested let me know and I'll track progress on the forum Bill