Hello from NJ

[Flying]

What's up? I've got a Ninja 250 waiting to shed its carburetor and enter modernity. I love the work that is being done with rusEFI, especially after realizing that Megasquirt wasn't quite open source.

I've been tinkering with my motorcycle for about 3-4 years now. I'm no stranger to engine work nor making a full wiring harness, and I look forward to learning a lot while working with rusEFI and hopefully helping to promote it.

As for my background, I'm a student of biology with a half-done engineering degree.

[AndreyB]

Welcome! Where in NJ exactly? We have two cars in the north and one in the south.

What's the next step?

[Flying]

I've been living in Edison for the past 5 years. A transplant from Los Angeles, born and raised.

As for the next step, who knows? I'm a bit of an open book at the moment.

[AndreyB]

Oh you are really close to @! See http://rusefi.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1146

[stefanst]

Welcome to this strange and wondrous place. You're not too far from @ himself either and I work in the greater Princeton area, but still live in PA, so it's not a huge trip either. I have currently one Miata running on rusefi and just started work on the second.

More details on the engine please? How is the mechanical conversion to throttle-body and injectors going to be accomplished? Pictures?

[kb1gtt]

Hello and welcome.

Have you found the wiki yet? Just incase you have not, here's a link http://rusefi.com/wiki/index.php?title=Manual:Hardware_Frankenso_board

Pleasure to meet you. I look forward to seeing you around.

[Flying]

Welcome to this strange and wondrous place. You're not too far from @ himself either and I work in the greater Princeton area, but still live in PA, so it's not a huge trip either. I have currently one Miata running on rusefi and just started work on the second.

More details on the engine please? How is the mechanical conversion to throttle-body and injectors going to be accomplished? Pictures?

Should be under EX250J specifications.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kawasaki_Ninja_250R

In short, it's a budget motorcycle engine (read: very well designed lawn mower engine). For pretty much the entirety of its US market production (1983-2012), the motorcycle has been carbureted. The stock ignition system and voltage regulation is ancient. The bike is a modern marvel using 80s technology (albeit very reliable) into 2012.

Luckily, it has a stroked out descendant. The Ninja 300 enjoys the benefits of EFI. I recently snapped up this thing:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/401310996290?_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT
The carburetors are mounted to the engine and air box and just hang off the rubber boots. The throttle off the newer motorcycle pretty much just hangs there as well.
This conversion has been previously done by a racer using European OEM parts in order to get the benefits of EFI while remaining in the stock class.

Currently there is a standalone plug-and-play EFI solution out on the market for this particular bike: http://www.ecotrons.com/products/kawasaki_ninja_250cc_fuel_injection_kit/
It's decently made and works well enough. But it uses new parts ($$$) and uses a comparatively basic engine management solution compared to the current iteration of rusEFI.

The goal is to use parts from readily available Ninja 300 salvage, document the wiring required, and produce a very cheap EFI solution for the 250 using rusEFI to integrate the hardware.