iracemine's purpose built N/A ST2 thread

Hey man,

Not sure about how exactly the microtechs setup as they flash the ecu before you get it. i.e. What im trying to say is im not sure if the microtech purely works off the crank sensor or if it uses the trigger wheel and cam sensor for home like it does on Aussie cars. I believe the E6X just uses the trigger wheel but you will want to talk someone who has one of these as I excluded them from my research.

By flashing the ECU it means that it works out of the box. This is why I'm selling mine, as it wont work on a aussie car.
 
There for a BP. you can tell a because it says mx5/escort and also cause of the absence of the three magnets on the cam gears. :)
 
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I see three magnets. And if it fits.......
 
Serves me right for posting from phone.

On the phone the left picture looked like a blown up version of the right :S

Apologies :S
 
Installshield 2 said:
^^have you contacted megacycle? Its a shop in California iirc, who bought all the specs from Integral when they went under...

Twiggy's are the originals...then Integral made a bunch of 'staged' cams, interestingly soon after they did a bunch of repairs on twiggys haha...then Megacycle bought all the shop specs from Integral...so its somewhere to start if you're having no luck with used parts...

I guess i should've mentioned...Twiggy's are very close in most ways to Integrals...the Twiggy exhaust cam is the radical one...fitting in with a Twiggy stage 2.5 iirc (i don't have the paperwork in front of me though)...the Intake twiggy is more aggressive than a J-spec ZE cam, but not quite as nuts as the exhaust...most saying its a little 'less than a stage 2' integral...

thats not the best way to compare all these though, anyway...A pair of twiggys is pretty mild on lift increase...and integrals go a slight bit higher in that regard...but Twiggy's have a huge amount of 'built in' overlap, the LSA is pretty intense...and Twiggy's also have a VERY steep ramp angle (especially the exhaust, which is why it needs to be shimmed)...making the valves open and close extremely quickly...which is especially useful at high rpm...

i'm not sure what cams you currently have...you could definitely look into some adjustable cam gears, and move your power band a little...which would give you a better idea of how aggressive you want to go with cam specs...but even proper cam gears will be hard to source, as to my knowledge only FocusMSP adjustable gears will work with stock triggering...you only need one for the exhaust cam, you can run any adjustable gear on the intake as there is no sensor...

look up Big Lou...I almost bought a gear from him, but then found my twiggys and the seller was including two new focusmsp gears with it...so i went that route...he may still be looking to sell it though, not sure...
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OK getting much closer to being finished. Did pay for the focusmsp cam from Big Lou. Hope he can get that out soon. I will also call up SR to see if they will part out one adjustable exhaust gear.

Will be packing up my JDM cams an shipping them off to megacycle this week too. I should have them back within two weeks after that,

THEN I guess the last part is the Microtec. I kinda hope they have a plug n play harness like aem.........
 
No plug n play harness with microtechs. (That I've ever seen anyways!)

Only one that does that I know of is Haltech's unsure if its a Crossover only item as I never really looked into it as you guys have different wiring looms to us so plug n play harnesses wont work for us aussies :(

There was a guy some time ago who would make patch looms for a price (cant remember for which ECU). Sure if you do some searching you'll find more details.
 
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cams have been sent out. And SR will not sell just the one cam gear. So I will see if I can't find anyone on here with just one or at least selling them cheap.

Also started to do some research on aero dynamics but will post up the on goings of that in another thread to keep this one on topic.
 
OK so anyone else think this is a problem????

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OK paid for the microtech, and recived the focus gear from Big Lou. Thanks!

Now just the other cam gear and the waiting for the ECU and Cams..........
 
Out of curiosity how much did you pay for the microtech? on account of I want to sell mine...
 
OK second cam gear coming from Australia. Microtech already here. I am looking into the install while I wait for my cams to get made, and I noticed that there is a spot to be wired into the stock O2 sensor. Will I still need a wideband?
 
You will have to check that your Microtech has the Wideband feature enabled. I believe that the Microtech uses a 0-5v signal, whereas the stock O2 sensor is 0-1v. My suggestion is to look into an Innovate MTX-L unit, which should cover most bases.
 
Wideband is a seperate module from what microtech told me Orion. All the new LT10s have it added I've been lead to believe its the older versions that need to have it sent back for the modules to be swapped.

And yes you will want wideband so that you can tune it. As narrow band only covers 0-1v, as such its fidelity is very low. Thus you need a wideband sensor for the increased fidelity so that you can tune the car. You needn't have the wideband module as some of the innovates have a logging feature but it will make tuning easier :)
 
Ice88 said:
Wideband is a seperate module from what microtech told me Orion. All the new LT10s have it added I've been lead to believe its the older versions that need to have it sent back for the modules to be swapped.

And yes you will want wideband so that you can tune it. As narrow band only covers 0-1v, as such its fidelity is very low. Thus you need a wideband sensor for the increased fidelity so that you can tune the car. You needn't have the wideband module as some of the innovates have a logging feature but it will make tuning easier :)
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Microtech may have enabled all of the newer units to receive a wideband signal, that is something Pat will have to check on his one. The module is only to covert the wideband signal to 0-5v, so if you get something like the Innovate I described, then the 'module' is not required.
 
Wideband is 0-5 volts so why does it need to be converted to 0-5 volts?

Im confused. My understanding was that teh module that the older microtechs expected was 0-1v as such wideband did not work with it, for wideband to work the module needed to be updated to accept a 0-5v signal.

*shrug*
 
Ice88 said:
Wideband is 0-5 volts so why does it need to be converted to 0-5 volts?

Im confused. My understanding was that teh module that the older microtechs expected was 0-1v as such wideband did not work with it, for wideband to work the module needed to be updated to accept a 0-5v signal.

*shrug*
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Yes, but most widebands need that 0-5v signal to run the gauge - i.e. like a few other sensors, you can't piggy back off the signal.
Something like the MTX-L gives you a secondary 0-5v output that is meant for aftermarket ECUs and can even be programmed to match the requirements of a particular ECU.
 
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