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Offline F17BAD

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Re: ABF, megasquirt and ITB's.
« Reply #10 on: 22 April 2012, 14:50 »
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Re: ABF, megasquirt and ITB's.
« Reply #11 on: 22 April 2012, 15:02 »
180ish I would be happy with tbh.
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Re: ABF, megasquirt and ITB's.
« Reply #12 on: 22 April 2012, 16:52 »
If your not a technical, wiring, sensors and information kind of person, dont even attempt it. If you dont mind reading lots and lots and lots and lots and lots of missinformation, contrasting methods, sensor spec sheets, wiring diagrams, dont mind doing wiring and making things and dont mind beong thoroughly confised at times then go for it  :smiley:. Personally Im of the latter persuasion but I still havent finished TB'ing a mates engine after several years lol. One thing I would advise is trying to use as many of the stock sensors/ignition system as possible, this will mean having to work out how to get it all to work with the megasquirt (crank angle I seem to remember not liking the VW sensor much) but will save you the hassle of tracking down alternatives.

I went for ZX12R Throttle bodies btw, the bore spacing is pretty much spot on for the engine (and very easily modifyable to get it spot on whilst keeping the ZX fuel rail), they are pretty well matched to the airflow demands of the engine and the injectors are more than man enough for the job.

As for the mapping, once its all done and running on the road, take it to a megasquirt friendly rolling road and get them to do it for you, it will save a lot of hassle in the long run. You may think this is more expensive and that may be true, but at least it means it will run right from day one rather than being a bag of sh!te that needs constant tweekage to get it to run ok.

If I could offer you one piece of advise though, get a standard ABF installed and get that to run properly before thinking about putting it on TB's as thats reasonably well documented, gives you an imediate increase in power and teaches you enough about the system that you can progress to harder elements of the install. It also lets you know how much space you have in your engine bay for the new inlet system.
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Re: ABF, megasquirt and ITB's.
« Reply #13 on: 22 April 2012, 16:57 »
180ish I would be happy with tbh.

girl. put a 1.8T in it you know you're gonna want 200+ eventually :tongue:

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Re: ABF, megasquirt and ITB's.
« Reply #14 on: 22 April 2012, 17:11 »
Ahhh but the ABF makes a nicer noise.  Let's face it, unless a lot of money's been spent on it a 1.8T makes a sound like an asthmatic kid being squeezed by a bear.
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Re: ABF, megasquirt and ITB's.
« Reply #15 on: 22 April 2012, 17:12 »
The ABF has all the sensors you need. I use the 60-2 trigger wheel with internal ignitors from the MS. You can also use a KR setup with 4 window dizzy and ignition amplifier for the ignition. You can also go wasted spark using crank wheel.

For coolant and IAT you use standard vw sensors and set them up with easytherm. Its not that difficult if you read the right info.

For ITB's you should really use Alpha-N mode for this.

Get a Base map sorted so it can be started and then you can tweak. With my base map i could drive it fine was just rich.
If the correct settings are used, it shouldn't run crap. Alot of the problems are down to acceleration enrichments which is hard to do without a wideband and datalogging.

If you are gonna attempt to play with the map, and with MS you should be. Then you WILL need a wideband and gauge installed or a portable like an LM-2 to tweak fuelling. A dyno would then be needed to optimise ignition and fuel maps after.


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Re: ABF, megasquirt and ITB's.
« Reply #16 on: 23 April 2012, 21:00 »
What I found with mine, if your going map it your self then your going to need to do lots of research, I kind of did but after a problem developed I just lost all interest as I couldnt find the problem, ended up being so simple it pisses me off now!

Wiring it up was hard at first not knowing about car electrics, but wiring up my 2nd one up was soo much easier now I knew what goes where. Once you get wired up, you could just get it on trailer a to R-tech, they quoted me £250 to do the whole lot, they would have it for about a week. So once they are done it's ready, no need to touch the map. Thats what I would of done, but instead of diagnosing a faulty fuel rail I got a new abf engine with megasquirt lol

So I have an ms1 ecu going now and a lc-1 wideband datalogger. :wink


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Re: ABF, megasquirt and ITB's.
« Reply #17 on: 24 April 2012, 08:35 »
It would still need tweaking after a week.  :wink:


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Re: ABF, megasquirt and ITB's.
« Reply #18 on: 24 April 2012, 17:16 »
It would still need tweaking after a week.  :wink:

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Re: ABF, megasquirt and ITB's.
« Reply #19 on: 24 April 2012, 22:36 »
you never stop tuneing for drivablity / power delivery

it's not that hard to duff an engine with itb's together, getting it to be all it can be is much harder.

the spec othese projects also seems to evolve over time.   i'm still not happy with the abf for my golf and its been getting tinkerd with for over a year now and not near going in the car. and there are a few previous versions sulking in the rain outside.


What are you not happy with on it. WOT is easy enough to tune but i found driveabiltity is what takes time.

Whats the spec of it?

Smugde on cgti gave a nice 187hp on a mainly standard ABF on ITB's

ported solid lifter head,  290 degree cams,  13:5:1 CR.  main bearing caps ladderd  revs to 9k,  dual fuel rails,  primary rail  is petrol squirts  just behind butterflys,  2ndry rail is stood off the trumpets by 30mm and methanol,  ms2 ecu  running in alpha-N

it gets astma at 6500 sorts itself out by 7000. makes power,  in a cordoba shell  it's quite quick  seen off most 20vts without issue just has power delivery issue that pisses me right off so your a bit weary of driveing with 100% faith.   not done anything with it for months now half thinking about binning that motor and starting again with an fsi head
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