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8 hours ago, 95riosnake said:

I may have missed it, but is that display mounted in your cluster? I dig it

 

Yes. It is only stuck in there as a temporary solution. I am looking for a 94-95 cluster than I can cut up. Once I find one, the display will actually be mounted inside the cluster and sunk in behind the clear lens. I was supposed to do an initial beta test for a new digital cluster for our cars, but the designer started giving me the run around so I opted out.

This is actually nothing more than a small 7" TFT monitor that is plugged into a laptop in the car, which is running Binary Editor. All through a Moates Quarterhorse.

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Last night, I started cutting into a spare dash panel that I had. I want to mount the 7" monitor down inside the cluster, and try to make it look like it belongs there.

 

The initial fitment was ok, but it needed ALOT of trimming. I was able to slide the mount for the display, right into the center, once all of the cuts were in both halves of the cluster. Overall I'm pretty happy with the way it's coming along. The next project is going to be mounting some LEDs for crucial lights that were removed. Like the CEL, Battery light, and O/D off.

 

 

 

Stay tuned for more!

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10 hours ago, ttocs said:

plastiweld is great for filling the holes that you do not want there.  What are you going to do about the odometer? 

 

to be completely honest... I dont really care about the odometer.

But if I really wanted to keep it, i could run some wires off the back side of the cluster, and relocate the entire unit somewhere else.

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pretty sure removing/disabling the odometer will make fail inspection as well as just make it impossible to write the milage down.  Pretty sure with out one it would not be legal to sell the car which as long as you have no plans to do that its not a problem.

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54 minutes ago, ttocs said:

pretty sure removing/disabling the odometer will make fail inspection as well as just make it impossible to write the milage down.  Pretty sure with out one it would not be legal to sell the car which as long as you have no plans to do that its not a problem.

While I appreciate your concern for the resale value of my car... you need to understand that I've had this car for over 10 years. It's not going anywhere any time soon.

 

If I get rid of it... it'll be in pieces, not whole.

 

As for the inspection issues... this is not my OE cluster. The Cobra cluster will be kept untouched, as they are rather rare. Should the stock cluster ever need to go back in, it can.

 

But on a more serious note. You've seen what's done to my car. In a state with inspection laws that are second only to California... I assure you, nothing on it is legal.

 

But, I'm also a state inspector. So I kinda do whatever I want.

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meh, so many people have changed out clusters on their cars and have way different mileage than what it should be.  how many cars have ran with a broken speedo gear and never counted miles for years and years.   the government isnt going to come find you because there is an odometer discrepancy.  hell, almost all of our cars are odometer exempt these days anyways. 

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2 minutes ago, Blackmage said:

hell, almost all of our cars are odometer exempt these days anyways. 

 

This.  No one cares about the odometer on an old Mustang... especially an SN95

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I like the idea.  I floated that idea around in my head but never really had a reason to do it.  Digital gauges in the factory cluster openings would be rather sweet. 

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It is obviously not the best method for doing a digital dash. This I know.

 

My main concern is that there were certain bits of information that were just not available on the dash, and couldn't be shown without adding more gauges... which then leads to more clutter.

 

Atleast doing it this way, allows me to show the things that I feel are important... and it doesn't further clutter my view from the drivers seat. It has actually made several gauges redundant, like the Battery, coolant temp, and wideband.

 

I run open loop at all times, so having my target A/F ratio shown next to my wideband readout is a nice feature. Then along the bottom I have (from left to right) Load, Per_Load, throttle, transmission speed (which should match my speedometer, but the VSS gear is wrong).

Then the next line down is Trans oil temp, Coolant temp, Air Charge temp, and battery voltage.

 

So that one display shows eleven different gauges plus some warning lights, all in the space of a speedo and tach.

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9 hours ago, Blackmage said:

  how many cars have ran with a broken speedo gear and never counted miles for years and years. 

 

UM...  I'm sad to say I'm a member of that club.  I've had the new gears for about 9 months now and still haven't put them in.:wacko:

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Well, I spent the better half of the morning fixing some of the old pictures in this thread. the early pages (1-3) will need to wait until I get home and get on my desktop.

When we last left off, I had the car up and running after sending the headgasket on vacation. I started to show the first iteration of the digital dashboard, but we missed some stuff on our way there. So lets step back for a moment.

I was having some pretty good luck with the car. Everything was running well and doing what it was supposed to do. I drove it almost every day!20150803_181602.thumb.jpg.df4e6523f040351b90b5d2ccdaf00ed1.jpg

 

I snuck in a quick photo of my car next to my team leaders MK3 Supra, in the shop. 

Almost a month later (late August 2015) I grabbed a Maximum Motorsports Roll Bar kit with swing out door bars. I quickly proceeded to tear out the entire interior and got to work putting it in.
FWIW, Putting a "bolt in" rollbar in by yourself... is a tremendous pain in the balls.

 

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Money was tight, as it always is. But September saw a new mod that is hidden in plain sight. 
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Cant see it, can you?

I replaced the factory clock with the display for a zeitronix ethanol content analyzer. This was all in preparation to eventually run a stand alone EMS with flex fuel support.

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The sensor is mounted in the return line of the fuel system, and will output both ethanol content, as well as fuel temp. Two very useful bits of info.

As I said before, she was a driver. I drove this thing everywhere. We had a super mild winter, so I drove pretty much any time there wasnt snow on the ground.

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The 3.73 gears that were in the rear, were a bit too much for the car. I wasnt very happy with the way it was performing, so I grabbed another housing and started swapping back to 3.08s.

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I had my wife come out and help bleed the brakes, everything went great... right up until my 2 year old decided that he wanted to play with my 10.8v impact... (don't get ahead of me...)

My son is interested in all things "car" so I figured "why not let him put the lug nuts on?" I hand threaded each nut on, and placed the impact on the nut and let him pull the trigger. He ran all of the left side lug nuts on. Once they were all on, we said goodnight, and I put the right rear tire back on.

In my rush/being distracted... I never torqued either rear wheel on.
Shens on me.

I told my wife that i was going to head to the gas station and fill up on E85, hopped in the car and took off!

I made it about 6 miles from my house.
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The car landed on the sway bar, and slid a good 50 feet or so. My LR tire rolled nearly a 1/4 mile away!
The only damage to the body was under the rear bumper... And I didnt notice it until this past spring (2017). 
I made my second "call of shame", got a ride home, and went back out to where the car was with my truck and trailer. Im so glad I have the FLSFC's and the roll bar, because I was able to jack up the entire rear end from the right rear torque box. Now THAT is rigidity!

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Now we are caught up to the digital dashboard escapades!

 

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Along with the digital dash work, I also peeled the plasti-dip off the roof of the car (and what a chore THAT was). I had been tossing around the idea of wrapping the car, and wanted to test myself on a very simple panel. So the roof got the CF vinyl treatment. Coupled with the 17x9/10.5 10th Anniversary wheels, I was very happy with the look of the car.

 

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Mustang week was coming, and I was finally going WITH MY CAR! :dance:
I picked up a lightly used set of 28x11.5x15 Hoosier QTP's from @Rolocut, whom I had finally met in person at a car show in CT. His Coyote swapped SN is F'n AMAZING!!!

Anyway... I couldnt decide if I wanted white or black out, so I took a couple pics trying to figure it out.
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My new wheels finally came in, and it was time to mount them up. I went with JMS Savage wheels, 17x4.5 and 15x10.

I took a few days and did everything I could possibly do, to make sure I didnt look like a bag of ass at Mustang Week. (which didn't work)

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Overall, I was very happy with the way my car was looking!

 

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I saw dogtags on the mirror, are you military?

 

 

 

By the way, youve done some awesome work in here. Im going to have to look through the whole thread and see everything that happened. Also, did you ever get that microsquirt worked out?

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After Mustang Week, nothing new really happened with the car. I drove it... ALOT
Right up until about the end of November. My inspection had expired back in Feb of 2015... and a year and a half later, it was only a matter of time before something bad happened.
Thanksgiving 2016 was the last day the Cobra was on the road. I pulled the plates and transferred them to my new Mustang, knowing full well that it would take a small miracle for the Cobra to EVER pass emissions in RI again.
 

 

 

The carnage....

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I put the plates on my new 02 Vert that I dubbed "Dirtbag Cheap". I'll be doing a thread on this pile of shit soon too.

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The coming winter would see a dramatic drop in progress with the Cobra. The 900cc injectors came out, the stock PCM came out too, and a plan was brewing for a new digital dash setup.

February saw the influx of parts. I bought a pair of Microsquirts. The plan was to run one controlling the engine, and one on the transmission. After watching the forums again, i saw an MS3X come up for sale... and cheap too. I ended up trading one of my Microsquirts plus a harness, for a NEARLY complete MS3X and harness set. It had a bunch of other extras, but most didnt get used.

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It took me MONTHS to wire everything up. the project kept getting set back by silly issues, money.. etc.
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After 4 solid months, I finally had the MS3x ready to install.

 

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I was also working on the new digital dash setup.

This time, its completely stand alone, and doesnt need to be connected to a laptop. Infact, it completely takes the place of a laptop, and will do all of the datalogging and tuning duties that i require.

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Its a Raspberry Pi 3b, running Raspbian Jessie w/Pixel with a 7" Official RPi Foundation touch screen display. 

More on this later.

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6 minutes ago, LWARRIOR1016 said:

I saw dogtags on the mirror, are you military?

 

 

 

By the way, youve done some awesome work in here. Im going to have to look through the whole thread and see everything that happened. Also, did you ever get that microsquirt worked out?

 

Yes, been in the RI National Guard for 9 years. Spent 2010-2011 overseas.

As for the Microsquirt... be patient. we're getting there.

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Chapter 5: The Third Coming of Megasquirt!

 

So this MS3X will be the third time I've installed a stand alone in this car. I had a MS2 back in 2006/2007, which didnt stay in very long. I had no clue what I was doing with tuning back then. (Not much has changed)
In 2015? I had tried to put an MS3Pro in, but I couldnt quite figure out how to make both it and the stock PCM work together for trans control. I have since figured out what I did wrong... but the MS3Pro is long gone.

My current setup is a MS3X with a Microsquirt in CAN for engine and transmission control. What a process THIS has been.

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I'm not planning on tucking any wires away until I know that I've got all the features that I want. So basically that means I wont have a passenger seat all through this year... haha!

I had to open up part of the wire harness on the car, because the Signal Ground between the engine and trans sensors, were actually paired together at the DLC connector under the hood. So I pulled all of the harness out and peeled back all the coverings so I could see what was going on.

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After spending a few weeks trying to research how to make the system work, i had all but given up. After making a couple posts on the MS forums, and bashing my head against the wall, I finally figured out why I couldnt get shift functions to work properly. 
The MLPS (Manual Lever Position Sensor, a.k.a. Neutral Safety Switch) had to actually be opened up and internally modified.

 

I had to supply a 5v reference to the sensor, so I could get a varied voltage signal out of it.
Easy fix. I ordered a new MLPS pigtail, swapped wires over from the old broken connector, and made the necessary mod inside the sensor.

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Now that I had that sorted out, it was time to move on to getting the MS3x to work.

 

When I first connected my laptop, I had no data from the MS. After getting VERY mad at the guy who sold it to me, I found out that it never had any firmware loaded. I felt like a complete ass.
I loaded up the firmware and started plugging away. I add new features almost daily. followed by something taking a dump and not running right.

 

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Recently, i was having some very serious issues with erratic signals from the PIP. So how do we fix that??? We replace it!

 

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The car ran so poorly, that it completely smoked a set of plugs.

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In my frustration with the PIP, I had a co-worker machine down my crank pulley spacer, and installed a flying magnet trigger wheel.

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After a few more days of fiddling, a friend of mine helped keep me sane. Te car would start and idle beautifully, but wouldnt rev past 2k rpm. Turns out I had a setting incorrect in the MS3.

Once we figured that out... we were off for a test drive!

 

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It was the first day the car had been outside since Thanksgiving.

nearly 8 months later...

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I loaded it up on the trailer and prepared for the events of this week.

Monday, Alternate Safety Inspection. Needed to prove to the state that it was safe to be registered.
Tuesday, 4th of July!!! :patriot:
Wednesday, printed all my DMV papers and insured the car.
Thursday (yesterday) FINALLY GOT THE THING REGISTERED!!!! Went hope, popped the new plates on and drove it to the inspection station. 
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ITS FINALLY LEGAL!!!!!!!!!!!


Now, time to hammer out this tuning. 

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39 minutes ago, 64bit_Tuning said:

 

Yes, been in the RI National Guard for 9 years. Spent 2010-2011 overseas.

As for the Microsquirt... be patient. we're getting there.

Damn man, Ive been MS guard for 8 yrs 9 months. Where were you in 10-11? I was in Afghanistan at the same time!

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