Wow, where to begin. It's been a few years since I've been active on the board, so I'm not sure how many of you remember me. I see some familiar names here and there, but a lot of new ones. My Z24 has been sitting in storage for the last couple years and I really haven't done much with it except drive it in a few autox competitions. I don't think I've put more than a hundred miles on it in the last few years. I bought a motorcycle a few years back and bought a Mazdaspeed6 and kind of lost interest in the Cav while it sat in storage at my parent's house.

Since then I've sold the Mazdaspeed6, mainly because the factory warranty ran out, and a few things started going wrong with it. Parts are NOT cheap, especially when it came to the AWD drivetrain. A little background on what happened to it... I kept that car meticulous and it was like it came off the showroom floor. Anyway, the new owner flew from NY to pick it up, had it for two weeks, and totaled it. That was the second Speed6 he smashed in less than a month. Kind of broke my heart. I couldn't complain though, because I sold it for more than what I paid for it, and was able to put a nice chunk of change in the bank. I've been looking at STIs, a few WRX Premiums, and some beamers. But, it's nice to not have a loan payment, and I'm looking at buying a house soon so I'd rather not have a car payment and a mortgage payment.

Suddenly, I remembered the Cav collecting dust back at my parent's house. And I thought why not stick a few thousand into it and make it a fun car to drive again and make it my daily driver! It's already got a fully built motor that I've got thousand of dollars stuck into, practically rust free, rear disc brakes, Tokico suspension, nice wheels, and really nothing wrong with it. It's got the M45 blower on it, but I've never been able to boost with it because of tuning problems. I had pretty much given up on HPTuners and was just totally frustrated. So.....I bought MegaSquirt3. I had an extra engine harness lying around and I'm in the process of tearing it apart, getting rid of everything I don't need, and soldering in the Megasquirt harness.

I don't have too much for pics just yet, but here are a few teasers.






The plan is to get it running on the supercharger, play around with it for a while, and go turbo Questions and comments welcome!





2010 Subaru Impreza WRX Limited
1999 Cavalier Z24 Supercharged
1999 Grand AM SE (Beater Car)
1997 GMC Sierra
2007 Honda CBR 600RR
2005 Honda TRX450R

nice to see you messing with the cav again, but not sure why you couldn't get that setup tuned with HPT. You should have no problems with a M45 setup.



FU Tuning

Well it's a '99 and no matter how do you it with HPT, it just seems hacked together. MS3 has all sorts of things built in like boost controller, MAP sensor, alky injection outputs, etc. I plan on going big turbo in the future, and I just feel better running it off of MS3.



2010 Subaru Impreza WRX Limited
1999 Cavalier Z24 Supercharged
1999 Grand AM SE (Beater Car)
1997 GMC Sierra
2007 Honda CBR 600RR
2005 Honda TRX450R

Good luck man, if i was to try ms over again i would do a external 36-1 or 60-2 crank trigger wheel to make life much easier. how are you planing to run yours?


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Glad to see you around Luke. My 99 ran fine with HPT, though I cannot take ANY credit for tuning it

Good Luck



Jason
99 Z24

LG0/LD9 for Life
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Blwn LD9 wrote:Glad to see you around Luke. My 99 ran fine with HPT, though I cannot take ANY credit for tuning it

Good Luck

My friends 99 has been running for 4-5 years with a M45 and he drives it daily.



FU Tuning

Will be watching this thread, I to one day will have a MegaSquirt.


- Your not-so-local, untrained, uncertified, backyard mechanic. But my @!#$ runs

i dont remember you.. just who the hell are ya?



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