*shrug* you came here to discourage me from trying to do something ambitious, to instead achieve rolling mediocrity. Thanks.bradartigue wrote:You own a very rare car. It is no small effort to put in megasquirt, especially when the prevailing sense is "it can't be done." So don't LOL - it takes a ton of work to get these cars running correctly and un-screwing all the PO "enhancements" - much less to install an EFI.ORFORD2004 wrote:So, I own a very rare spiderI just know that about 1 out of every 1,000 projects like this ever see the light of day.
I tried to make a point here and failed. Won't be the last time. I have this notion that if you do not understand how things work you cannot improve them.
It may have even worked. Who knows.
You're a guy who clearly has a grasp of automotive electrical systems. So, when you hear people groan about how much they hate wiring, how hard wiring is, how electrical problems are the hardest things to figure out - i presume that, like me, you wonder WTF is wrong with those people. Because wiring isn't hard, and 12v DC debugging is pretty simple stuff. Time consuming and tedious sometimes, but not difficult.
I have worked in the software industry for 18 years. A few of those years were in embedded systems testing. Tech that i can plug a laptop into and talk to directly doesn't discourage or scare me. I've actually gotten a lot of use out of the VCDS cable i bought for my VW. Yes i paid $$$ for the real one, and it gets plugged into other peoples cars for diagnostics and reconfiguration pretty regularly.
35 year old tech with no direct diagnostics doesn't really scare me either - it's just not something i go out of my way to bring into my garage. A black box that won't really tell me when something is wrong isn't something I'm going to grow to love. It's less welcome than those wonders of hydraulic engineering we call carburetors, fiddly though they are.