VEMS ECU in a Griff 500

[dnb]

It does still work. In fact, the steering feel is a little bit lighter than it was, as the fluid isn't getting as hot. The pump seems to suck the fluid up well enough to work.

Just make sure you shield the PAS bottle overflow vent thingy from being able to spray a nice mist of combustable PAS fluid on to the exhaust. I have a bit of thin stainless sheet wrapped round the top of the bottle (not shown in the pic) as a safety measure.

[macdeb]

Oh, right. Thanks Dave, I'll give it a try.

[dnb]

I finally sourced a nice air temperature sender - cost me £1 from the local scrappy Now it's mounted in a tapped hole in the manifold. That's the last of the intake side sensors. Just the wideband lambdas to go in. (This means manifold mods... )



The wiring's mostly finished now.
I still need to:
tidy up the fan triggering
tidy up the power and ground connectors (just bodged in the old loom at the moment )
Fix the idle stepper
get rid of the Lucas stuff

But it was complete enough to test the car this evening, running with "semi-sequential" (batches of 2) injection. It started first time!! Even though half the parameters are total guesses! It won't idle, but that's not surprising given the stepper isn't configured. The main point is that it ran, so phase 1 is very nearly complete.

There's a few more photos to put up, but right now, it's time for a
Here's to phase 2 - getting ignition & full sequential injection working.

[dnb]

Finally had the time and enough good weather to get some "project work" done...



All the engine work is now done and it looks fairly tidy under the bonnet. Just a few bits of tidying up and it should be in good shape for the Growl.

[2Munkys]

Looks good Dave; will look forward to havin' a chat about your Engine Doin's at the Growl and seeing how it all performs on the rollers.

[knightly]

where did you get the 500cc/min Bosch injectors from?....at what rail pressure is the 500cc/min rated at????.....cost???......a mate needs some for a supercharged V6, and is struggling to locate some - are they the high impedence type? - are they end feed metal bodied injectors?...... or fully plastic?

cheers

[rev-erend]

What idle stepper did you go for - I understand there are some disc valved steppers that are supposed to be much better than the Lucas item.

[dnb]

Injectors are 600cc/min Siemens items sourced from RaceTronix in the US - cost was just over £200 (depending on exchange rate) They're end feed high impedance type.

Still using the Rover idle valve - it works OK, although I may change to the Ford type I saw on Pete500's car at the Growl

Edited by dnb on Tuesday 8th August 21:00