Just wondering if one of us, some of us, or mostly all of us are too thrifty to pay much for a distributor to whack on the back of an EJ with correct cam slot to run an EJ in an EA series vehicle

 

Where would your wallet snap shut to have a used item delivered to your door that may need new points condensor, cap and rotor?

personally, I'd use the ignition portion of a Megasquirt 2/ Microsquirt to run the DIS setup. Just use a 36 tooth crank sprocket and sensor from a later EJ. That's all MS needs to run ignition only

Someone here knows how to fit a dizzy on the EJ with an already available part. I think it may have been an old Ford dizzy, but I can't remember. It was covered in a post some years ago.

Ford Escort, Subaru Justy, LADM EJ15/EJ16 are all known options.

Wow, glad someone came out of the woodwork with that 36 tooth idea, thanks. I priced a new megajolt kit ....it might be a consideration once I was convinced ej was better than my EA82 Mongrel and the one I get is deserving of money spent

 

Tell you what, it would also help using the Mk of the Ford Escort the dizzy is from whenever it is quoted.

 

Is it Mk 4 Escort? Just UK market?

 

On the megajolt was told it needs to be a 36 minus1 trigger wheel. Is that what later models use? And a reference to what year that later model is would also help

To answer the question - $0.

 

I would run the fuel injection. It's trivial to hook up and run. Once the harness is stripped it only requires 4 connections for the engine to start. Constant 12v, switched 12v, start signal, and fuel pump power.

 

GD

OK one vote for zip, zilch, nada

 

trivial for Elite Master Status yeah

 

I am not going to really be able to use petrol, not even sure it has a fuel tank underneath. Propane or LPG has enough pressure in the tank so no pump required unless I went liquid injection

 

 

OK I understand constant 12V (battery 12V+) , switched 12V (IGN +), does the ECU provide pos or neg switching to fuel pump ?

 

and where is this start signal, something from the starter motor solenoid that changes status from start to running ?

Wow, glad someone came out of the woodwork with that 36 tooth idea, thanks. I priced a new megajolt kit ....it might be a consideration once I was convinced ej was better than my EA82 Mongrel and the one I get is deserving of money spent

 

Tell you what, it would also help using the Mk of the Ford Escort the dizzy is from whenever it is quoted.

 

Is it Mk 4 Escort? Just UK market?

 

On the megajolt was told it needs to be a 36 minus1 trigger wheel. Is that what later models use? And a reference to what year that later model is would also help

 

Megajolt I think is derived from mega squirt I think using only the ignition portion and their custom software. In the case of MS, the wheel that works is 36-2-2-2 but it works fine with the right settings. If you look up the crank sprocket for a 2004 USDM WRX then you'll get the right part. It was used in many others dating back to as early as 1999

Thanks for spelling it out Matt

 

When I first saw 36-1 had no idea, then a guess was the -1 stood for a cog that started life as 36 equally spaced teeth on it, due to a full revolution being 360 degrees, divide by ten, punch out a tooth for TDC or timing degrees before TDC, still to work out

So, a 36-2-2-2 has three sets of two teeth missing equally spaced ?

Read up on Phinzinza's EJ25 carb setup on off-roading subarus (his forum).

 

He made an adaptor to fit some common dizzy to.

 

I'd imagine anything Honda that's run off the cam might work too...

 

Cheers

 

Bennie

I spied a Feroza dizzy that looked the part once

 

I know next I'll be looking for an electronic upgrade kit

Just go factory efi for something different for you Jono. No need to adapt anything except a couple of fused wires to mate the EJ harness to the L series harness. No need to tune it either

 

 

Cheers

 

Bennie

There aint no L Series harness in B3 . Sorry I confuse the heck out of people most of the time. This is my 89 Brumby running the Mongrel EA82 LPG and 22* of advance static. Cant knock an EA82 until you try that ! Pretty certain this EJ is gonna be a closet runner in a custom made box, once running, just sit there until I am ready. All this started coz of bloody Giles wanting a few EA81 spares, cant get to those until poo boxe Commodes and this Lib are out of the way, then another twenty cars or so before I can get at the depths of this 440 m2 mancave for the other EA81 wagon, 16 vehicles jammed in the front yard - mostly cripples and invalids

NZ is relatively next door to you and they got carbed EJ16's in the early 90's which came stock with a distributor.

NZ is relatively next door to you and they got carbed EJ16's in the early 90's which came stock with a distributor.

That may be true but our design laws can be very different to NZ. Subaru Australia calls the shots as to what is offered and what is not. Eg: we didn't get the L series RXII coupe, or any L series coupe for that matter NZ did.

 

NZ also hasn't had a local car manufacturing industry for a very long time and have relied on imports. I believe this includes second hand imports. They have MANY exotic JDM delivered goodies that we never got from factory over here.

 

And whe they're close to us it's very costly to import vehicles in to Oz personally. Laws make it hard and it seems everyone on the docks/wharfs has a hand in your wallet if a vehicle is imported.

 

Forget the carb'd EJ factory unit. I'd be going for the RXII coupe if could ever import something.

 

Cheers

 

Bennie

Edited January 8, 20188 yr by el_freddo

There aint no L Series harness in B3

Ok so hook it into the MY harness, it doesn't matter what it's going into you need to have the EJ harness meet the converted vehicles harness at some point!

 

Just go the efi and see what it's like, then judge it.

 

Cheers

 

Bennie

NZ is relatively next door to you and they got carbed EJ16's in the early 90's which came stock with a distributor.

I keep reading that Oz get carbed EJ's too !

 

I think more than a few Aussies have searched high and lows of NZ for these, no evidence yet!

Hate the smell of petrol Bennie, no petrol tank is confirmed in one, hate to think how bad the other utes tank is - not seen petrol in ten years !

Gas is nice n torquey down low

 

Still, might have to cobble a jerry can up to it to make it work, then work backwards to propane it.

 

Guru Greg will help:)