Electronics

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Battery

Currently a stockish battery (?). What are good options here? Odyssey makes several options, but there has to be better nowadays.

What does the current battery weigh?

Likely choice:

Others:

  • Mueller MotorWerks EVO2: Lithium, 3 lb, 28 Ah, 550CCA, 269$ -- Looks like potentially a really good option. How is it so cheap for so effective a LiIon battery? Something has to be fishy. Try to read up more on it...
  • GRRReen 20Ah: Lithium, 7.25 lb, 20Ah, 330CCA, 289$

Ridiculously expensive but awesome:

NASIOC Battery Post with a bunch of other misc batteries.

Need to buy a trickle charger too.

Does it make sense to weigh the battery cable that runs along the PPF? With a tiny lightweight battery like this, it might make more weight sense to put the battery up nearer/in the engine bay and drop the 10 feet of thick copper cable. ST and SP both allow free relocation of the battery.

There's a rumor that the Deka ETX9 is the same battery as the Braille B106 (that the Braille is a rebadged Deka). The cranking specs are quite a bit different, but the ETX9 is ~55$ and the weight is the same. Some people on Miata.net have run them successfully, but I'm skeptical. Maybe start with the B106 and if it dies too quickly just get Dekas to replace them?

Engine Management

Originally I bought a MegasquirtPnP. It only supports batch fire injection and wasted spark ignition, and I'd eventually need to buy a KnockSenseMS board for knock control with it.

I then realized that I really wanted to control it with the crank angle sensor, and wanted sequential spark and fuel, and useful knock control. In the end, it made sense to upgrade to the AEM. So, I took the plunge.

There's a good SAE paper on the K series engines that describes the crank/cam angle sensor issue.

Traction Control/Launch Control

Picked up the Race Logic RLTC6AL from PDM Motorsports for 1100$ CAD. It will integrate with the existing electronics in minutes using Kyle's patch cable to avoid hacking up the main harness. Don's set it up on a bunch of cars so he'll be a good resource too. Apparently Strelniks runs the same system.

Wideband

Bought a Zeitronix Zt-3, the same thing I've been using with pretty good success on the KLiata. The MS3 seems to support it just fine.

DAQ/Instrument Panel

Buying an Evo4 + MyChron3 for now. It can read from the MegasquirtPnP (MS1) via RS232. It supports as much data as we want down the road -- can do 12 tire temp inputs, 4 shock pots @ 1000Hz, and our other analog pressure/temperature inputs.

Tire Temps

Opti-Grip seems like a surprisingly affordable package. Would need to figure out how to integrate it into existing datalogging, but it could be neat...

Wiring Harnesses

Front Harness

The front harness is different for ABS and/or CA injection. So, we're going to have to steal this from the 93 car. The front harness we want is NA37-67-010B (california w/ABS).

Stuff we can remove:

  • AFM wiring
  • Airbag wiring
  • Power windows
  • Power mirrors
  • Radio wiring

I'm not sure if the front harness technically includes the stuff that goes down the PPF, but if it does, remember to pull out the antenna wiring the whole way through.

Rear Harness

The rear harness is different for ABS or not. If we get a car without ABS we'll have to swap this.

Dash Harness

Different for ABS or not. The harness we want is NA02-67-030N that has ABS wiring. Flyin Miata has one for 50$ if we buy a car without ABS and need to retrofit.

Need to remove radio/airbag stuff from this at some point.

Injection Harness

Sequential CA cars use a different injection harness: NA36-67-080. Steal it off the current car.

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