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I have in the past jammed a laptop in the footwell of my Lotus 7 kit car but its not ideal. I have at my disposal an old ipaq and a iphone 3G. The car is off the road for winter and as well as fitting a new engine, gearbox and diff, i also have a set of bike carbs using TPS as well as the older ones...

When it comes to Rev accel and Load accel what am i looking for? and Does this data show any bad / wrong things? The cut and paste has pushed the data together a bit but its Time, Revs, Kpa, Advance, Rev Accel , Load Accel and event log. You can see that i hit the space bar after the backfire event ...

I can see the ignition anvance and Kpa load with revs but don't understand what i am looking at/for with the RPM and Load acceleration. Here is a section just as the car backfired. Any thoughts? 55:04.5 3355 99 27 833 0 0 55:04.8 3530 99 28 741 -32 0 55:05.3 3723 101 29 1666 0 0 55:05.3 3972 98 30 1...

Struggling yet again to get it running smoothly, have replaced all parts twice now.
First thing to try and understand is the relation ship between load bin value and Kpa.
One map that was working well has load bin values up to 154 but the gauge only goes to 102Kpa am i missing something here?

My USB serial adaptor is connected to COM Port 13, all other ports are in use, configurator only allows com ports upto 10
What do i do to solve this one?

It was on a complete bought in engine package from a Sierra, i saw it running and installed the whole lot only changing the sump and fabricating a new VR sensor mounting plate (more substatial than before). I will run the car without MegaJolt just using EDIS and see what happens. I will look at the ...

After between 20 and 30 mins running and after a period of part or very little throttle the engine will suddenly feel unresponsive then cut out, it recovers intermitently, runs rough or cuts out, then after a few mins returns to normal. I have changed Plugs, leads and coil pack to no avail. The cutt...

My conclusion is that the problem was Me leaping to conclusions. A weak or seemingly weak spark was the cause of myself and my friend trying to eliminate electrical problems when there were none or at least a few minor ones. We did find some anomalies in the main wiring loom for the EDIS and the Meg...

The coil pack annotations are correct, its a coil pack not a distributor. A coil pack like this is effectively 2 coils that fire from both ends so when a spark is sent through plug lead to cylinder 1 a wasted spark also goes to plug 3, coil packs usually pair odd and even cylinders together hence 1 ...

I get 12V at common feed to coil and 12V at feed to EDIS

No time out message while cranking

I have a spare coil pack and EDIS, i have swapped both out and have eliminated these as a faulty

Past SVA, got registration etc then went for some short runs, the car had been started and run for almost a year but had net been on the road. Previous 7.5 amp fuse failure put down to magajolt and edis from same feed so upped fuse to 10 amp no problem since after running the car on the road for abo...

Car is under cover for the winter and my mind needs things to do so i have pushed this post back for concideration
If any one has some answers to my questions i would be most obliged.

I bought an engine with Megajolt installed about 2 years ago and have finaly got it running in my (still building) kit car a few months ago. This weekend it was my mission to interagate the Megajolt, i have installed Megajolt lite Configurator V3 and am running XP through a USB to Serial adaptor, so...

MartinM's post will allow me to connect up to the Megajolt as it is not in the car yet, the engine was too good a deal to miss but wont be fully instaled for a couple of months yet. Yes i run MAP and a 285 in an injection head on a 2.1 with a thinner gasket giving about 1:9.7 compression, Oh and qua...

just what i needed will follow the instuctions and report back.