Goodbye MegaSquirt.

During all of the paint prep, my buddy Carl Osterman and I were spending a lot of time trying to get the MegaSquirt to connect to the laptop. It was all wired in correctly, and when tested with a stimulator, it works fine, but for some reason, when we try to upload the firmware, it only works 10% of the time. The few times that we were able to get the firmware correctly uploaded, we would begin to update the settings in Megatune in order to start the car, and when trying to burn to the ecu, the connection would fail, and the Megasquirt would crap out. THen it was back to square 1...trying to upload the firmware again. This went on for about a week, 4 hours a day(after work). I was so fed up and frustrated, that with only 5 days left for the challenge, I decided to abort our Megasquirt plan and go back to the stock Motronic computer. We wouldn't have all of the tuning optios we had with the Ms, but Jimmy and I had run thi stock ecu last year, so we knew how it worked. christy cut the holes out of the carbon fiber panel for the gauges.Jimmy getting the AFM ready to be put back on the car now that we were not using MS.
almost all buttoned up and ready for the event... THe car had not been started in about 9 months!


looking nice!






We then taped off the sections that were gong to be red and yellow, and I painted them in the following nights. Christy and Mariana, cut out some stencils that I designed, and we sprayed the bombs on the fender and the Iron Cross on each quarter panel. THis shot was taken the morning that we left for Gainesville.