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Coming up with your own fuel injector controller and shift controller? Programming assembly code for the Motorola chip? I'll just say you tacked an incredible amount of work and seem to be chugging through it.


No, don't mis-understand. I didn't design the EFI controller, write any code for it or anything. MS is a DIY efi controller. It was designed by a couple guys a whole lot smarter than me. I bought the kit, soldered up the board, made up the harness for it, itegrated into the truck, tuned the maps to suite my engine/turbo, etc, but all the hard work was done by others.

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When you did an engine swap and transmission swap, why didn't you get a controller that came with the stock engine. Same for the tranny shifting.

Did you *have* to come up with your own stuff, or did you choose to? And if you chose to, what advantage is there?


It was by choice. I didn't want to mess with trying to find a complete controller and harness for it. It wouldn't be programmed for my truck, it's weight, my gearing, tire size, etc anyways. I also wanted full manual control. A stock controller wouldn't really give me anything I wanted at all.


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I'm not doubting you, I'm trying to understand why you went this route. The engine and tranny I understand (more power /beefier transmission that bolts to the engine), the controller/shifter part I don't


It was purely personal preference. I really liked the idea of a torque converter and full power, clutchless shifting (especially with the turbo). I still like it. The dial shifter works ok, but it'll definitely be better when the Geartronic shifter is hooked up.

--Dan