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Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2013 10:54 am
by Wilts289
With reference to Stevieturbo's earlier mention of the Nodiz system, and only being 5 miles from them I contacted them and received the following reply.
"We haven't yet created a bespoke 8 cylinder controller, however, we have carried out testing using 2x NODIZ units with them each running a crank sensor set 180* opposite each other on the crank trigger wheel. Loaded with the same map, this gives 8cyl control.
We will be looking into 6 & 8 cylinder control versions in the next few months, though I wouldn't want to hold your project back. If you are willing to wait however please let me know and I will prioritise development on this. "
Seemed knowledgable and helpful and worth encouraging them.
Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2013 11:18 am
by DaveEFI
Using two four cylinder units seems a cack handed way of doing things - you're doubling up on all sorts of things unnecessarily. Unless there are no options - which of course there are.
Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2013 3:24 pm
by stevieturbo
I agree. If they dont have a single controller to do an 8cyl engine, I would forget it
2 setups would work, but it's just messy....and of course twice as expensive as it needs to be
Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2013 4:13 pm
by kiwicar
But one way to see if you can get it to work before building a dedicated prototype
Best regards
Mike
Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2013 4:28 pm
by DaveEFI
Assuming there are enough output ports on their processor, I'd guess writing the software is the hold up.
Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2013 4:10 pm
by motorsportelectronics
Dave,
There's plenty of head room on the processor, we just haven't yet dedicated the time to 8 cyls as we are finding hard to keep up with the demand for 4cyls at the moment!
We are planning on building an 8-cyl version in the next weeks/months, but as with anything we like to firmly test it prior to release.
The 2x option was a 'get you running option'.
Phil, interesting comments about M-Tech, though anything we could find was either by you or 5+ years out of date...
Anyway, as soon as the 8cyl version is available we will be looking for a guinea pig to come down and try it on the rollers, so will keep you all posted with the news as we go!
Regards,
Matt
Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2013 6:12 pm
by mateyboy67
It's going to take me few weeks to get my engine swap done but I'd put my name on the guinea pig list. Only thing is a 4.6 gems Land Rover 130 aint exactly a racing machine!
Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2013 9:22 pm
by motorsportelectronics
In my book V8=:) regardless of what its fitted to!
Give me a few weeks and I will 'hash' together a prototype (just 2 extra coil drivers) and do some code tweaking for 8 cyl
M.E.
Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2013 10:47 pm
by mateyboy67
Grand job sounds like a plan!
Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2013 9:42 pm
by mateyboy67
Hi Matt just dropped you a pm I'm gonna be prepping the 4.6 in next few weeks, cheers Martyn.
Posted: Fri May 10, 2013 10:18 am
by motorsportelectronics