caps fixed it, all the weird issues have disappeared. now i'm working on the idle issues, if i do pull it getting this car to the classic it will be by the skin of my teeth

So I sorted the idle for the most part yesterday(friggin a tank of gas and about 4 hours in the driveway ). so I took it for a bit of a drive, the first 3-4 miles it drove flawlessly, then the old noise came back and it took about an hour to get home from there. Tomorrow I'm going to try a different setup for the grounds and maybe add a big cap across the battery, hopefully that will fix it.

good luck hope you get it sorted and it makes it to the classic

I wired the grounds all kinds of wrong. I'm going to redo them but I still don't know if its going to make it to the classic.

Hang in there, Nick. Wiring/grounding issues can be very demoralizing --- but alot of times it's just one little thing -- and when you find it, the whole world gets right again. Keep plugging away at it.

you could just ride with me....

I'll worry about sorting this out after the classic. Billy that ould be sweet.

I finally had a chance to play with some of my new-to-a-ninja parts, friggin school load this week was insane.

so I finally got the rest of the components to finish my barometric pressure compensation circuit(when i go up of down in elevation the fuel table will automatically compensate for the thinner/denser air, don't need it around here but I'll be taking the car to colorado for the 2012 type 3 invasion, then i will need it for sure). total cost for all the componests was $13.

on the left you'll see I added a cap to the power in for the megasquirt, hopefully that will fix the last bit of reset issues. On the right is the baro circuit.


This lovely mess, hehe, is my tach output circuit, since i'm direct firing my four coils(wasted spark for now, muahaha, I have nowhere to pick the coil- from). I also added a 1K resistor on the tach's ground to clean the signal up a bit. Total cost for parts $4.


There has to be a name for guys who hot rod car management systems, there are a handful or so of guys on STF that are doing some absolutely crazy things with megasquirt3's, a couple of them have just about maxed out their processors. Anyways i'm haing a blast modifing mine and making it do what i want it to do. Way way more fun then carburators and distributors


ninja edit- I frogot to update this but monday after the classic I figured out why i was getting an obsene amount of cpu resets...wrong plugs! FML, it was something simple and stupid. I got some bosch platinum plugs that have resistors and that cleared up just about all of my resets, i get a random one on acceleration but the cap on the input power should fix that.

reset problem is all fixed, took it out on a drive and for the first time I had no drama. my tach circuit didn't work, got a different set of diodes. hopefully tomorrow i'll have the tach installed and working.

I am planning on going to the kemah show saturday, tomorrow, halla at a ninja if your on the souf side

awesome news man I am sure you will figure out the tach problem