March 2, 200719 yr MegaSquirt looks Bad Arse I was in love with that pick-up before I read more about it. dreamed of a twin turbo AWD rod and that makes it look easy. little pricey for the 87 GL FI conversion but Bad Arse none the less
April 8, 200718 yr Awesome info.Any new info or pictures?I am really seriously considering doing this conversion.
April 8, 200718 yr Author Awesome info.Any new info or pictures?I am really seriously considering doing this conversion. What do you want pictures or info on? GD
April 26, 200718 yr What do you want pictures or info on? GD Got it General.Love the pictures of the disty.
April 26, 200718 yr We have a couple other threads going about problems we encountered but have it all figured out and hopefully pass smog next week. let me know what you need and can go out and take pictures and send info as needed. Good Luck with your projects, it's worth it.
July 3, 200817 yr I don't know if this has been covered before, but I just pulled the gauge cluster out of my '85 hatch and noticed a difference from the standard SPFI conversion outline. My ECS lamp is there and so is the speed sensor. However, there are two extra wires coming from the speed sensor. One wire is light blue and the other is white, both meeting in a blue, two pole connector. What does this mean, and how do I work around it? Also, my car does not have cruise control, but does have a Hitachi carb with an o2 sensor (I'm pretty sure).
July 4, 200817 yr Author One wire is light blue and the other is white, both meeting in a blue, two pole connector. What does this mean, and how do I work around it? Those are the infamous 60,000 mile EGR switch leads. Ignore them. Use the other connector for the speed sensor per my write up. GD
February 20, 201214 yr I'm still tweaking things, and I still need to take some more pictures, but it's ready for people to pick it apart. Here ya go: http://home.comcast.net/~trilinear/EA81_SPFI.html Be prepared to do some reading.... As soon as I get another harness to convert, I'm going to enlarge the harness conversion section with a TON more pictures. The weather is keeping me from it right now, but that should change this next week I hope. GD This link doesn't work any more. Could you repost it?
September 10, 201312 yr This link doesn't work any more. Could you repost it? Bump. I'm considering this swap, and I knew the write-up was out there, and now the link is dead. I thought I saved it to my computer too, but I can't find it. EDIT: Never mind, found it!!! http://www.leoneturbo.com/docs/EA81_SPI_guide.pdf Edited September 10, 201312 yr by Numbchux
August 20, 201510 yr Hi I got a ea82 multipoint fi engine on my trike need help with wireing it up .ie make harness for moter to start. Any suggestion apprecated daryl
August 20, 201510 yr We didn't get SPFI at all in Australia but a few have imported a kit. I bought one off a fellow Subie owner nearby. Apart from some sensors like the TPS and MAF being old and faulty it was workable and it ran but not 100%. My bad as I wasn't knowledgeable enough to get it running just right. Being in a regional area makes it hard too as no one has the know how to work on them in terms of wiring. Also the CR isn't the same on a stock ea81...8.7:1 (if in good order) compared to 9.5:1. I had to file 2mm of alloy meat off the centre of the block halves to get the manifold to clamp down. Be careful, later on when the engine was reconditioned the builder told me I wasn't far off going too far with the filing. In USA/Canada it would be much worth your while. In Oz not so much. Any part you need has to be imported. Hence I went for simplicity with the 32/36 and kept the SPFI manifold on. Goes great now.
August 21, 201510 yr Daryl, From reading your post, it seems that you're trying to get a MPFI engine to work. This thread was about the SPFI that wasn't available in Aus, so you might be better off starting a new thread, or looking on some local forums. How much of the harness do you have currently? The MPFI cars have a different body loom, but only available for 2 years on the Leone, and longer for the XT/Vortex. FYI, the early Vortex (which black ECU) has a separate EFI loom (plus a few extra wires like wipers) which plugs into the rest of the harness (I'm not sure about the later models with gold ECU). My suggestion would be to try to find a wreck of one of those. The harness will need to be severely shortened as the ECU is mounted under the rear parcel shelf, but that's an easy job of cutting & resoldering.
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