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Thanks - now I'll have to try and find an Orion

I have searched both the FAQs and here on the forum, but can't find an answer: For UK cars, where is the EDIS module located on donor vehicles - Fiesta and Mondeo seem to most popular in my local scrap yard? I can find the coil pack and the VR sensor is easier to remove from a Fiesta, but I haven't ...

KLAS wrote:this could be from a MPi engine, IIRC

I'm pretty sure they're both from MPi engines. One was from a much later car (~1998) - I'll have to ask on the Rover forums.

FWIW on the Rover 200/400 series, the OEM coil was originally mounted on the passenger side front wing, behind the headlamp, with a long HT lead. On later models, they changed the design of the coil (to a more "coil pack" style although still with just a single HT lead) and put it on the b...

Over the weekend, I had a look at a couple of spare K-series flywheels I've got laying around. One is as you say, a machined grove with the trigger "wheel" folded and pressed in. On the other, the trigger points are actually machined into the body of the FW itself; this one is a 36-4. I ch...

Ooohhh, sounds good

I'll have to go back and have a look at the flywheel that is under my work bench. I didn't realise the timing ring was seperate - I assumed it was all machined in to the original wheel. Have you worked out the relative posistions WRT to TDC? IIRC the flywheel has a single dowel, so will the VR senso...

Sorry if I'm asking a silly question, as I said I'm just starting out on this MJ/MS lark!!

What do you mean about using two trigger rings? Are you intending to run with the flywheel sensor AND the trigger wheel?

Just thinking about installing either MJ or MS-2 on a 1.4 K-series (Rover) engine. I know the standard flywheel is 36-2 with (I think) a VR sensor (the sensor certainly contains a magnet - this how the VR sensor works?). Given I can overcome the problems of welding cast iron/steel, is there any reas...

KLAS wrote:The later MEMS, 1.9 on, can be modified i know

Oooohhh!! Got any details? I don't know if the v1.9 would work with the old single coil/distributor setup of the old MEMS, but I guess it wouldn't be any problem to swap to the wasted spark setup...

I used to be an electronics engineer working on submarines and ships, so I know exactly the problems demanding environements can create :D Putting it in the engine bay would have been a "nice to do" as the loom is all set up, so it would look "nice" (always an important considera...

That's the MEMS unit - a nice cast alu box that is designed to mount in the engine bay. Other that issues of componet specification, it was my aim to re-use one of these boxes for a full Mega Squirt/Mega Jolt (MSnS v3?) system.

I thought I'd post the MEMS details just in case anyone is interested!

The MAP sensor is made by Mototola and has two part numbers on it: 5143770U01 and 1010BA.

It is a small plastic "box" about 3 x 4 cm and stands about 2 cm off the PCB.

Where to get a MAP sensor in the UK == where to get a MAP sensor in the world ! ..and at the moment, it seems incredibly difficult, if not impossible :( I'm considering putting MS and MJ in my Rover rally car. I've got some "spare" MEMS (Rover OEM) ECU's, so I thought I'd take one apart t...