[rusEfi] Aussie Ford ba 5.4L v8

[Jamie]

Hi,
I am A Newbie to forums so I apologise if I don't get things correct.... I am a mechanic so I know a bit about cars.
I have started a frankenso 0.4 board build to go into my Australian Ford Falcon xr8 quad cam 32 valve 5.4L engine with 5 speed manual cog box.
This is going to be a long project as I only get a couple of hours a week to populate the board.
I hope to complete the ecu and start the engine in Feb 2018.
The engine is simular to the USA Mustang 5.4L but the block is cast iron and our aussie version starts at 260kw at the flywheel na and up to 315kw na for the hi compression variant.
It runs a e-throttle that I hope to run with the Frankenso 0.4 or I could build a Arduino to do the throttle as standalone system.

[AndreyB]

No e-throttle for us yet Welcome to the forum!

[kb1gtt]

Welcome to the forum.

We have a thread in here about ETB. So far it has had limited success.

[Jamie]

Hi.
I will try to set up E throttle but if it wont play along I can put a mechanical one on it .
The car uses a can bus too so i will sniff the system and data log the current timing etc befor plugging in the frankenso .

BA sedan 6 cyl with quad cam 5.4 v8

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BA XR8 quad cam 5.4L engine installed

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[Jamie]

Hi everyone.
I have populated the 0.4 board and while testing the power supply i managed to touch 2 pins on the voltage regulator with the multi meter probe and popped a a227c and the a19t ####.

I replaced them and now have 5v to the lcd pin and discovery pins.

As i was setting the voltages for U601 - U604 i noticed that the power led would go off when i installed the jumper on P607 which is U604 s vp4 to 5v jumper pin .
I then started looking closer at U604 and found that i have 1 x ic with 4621 on it.
The other 3 have tc4427ac on them as per the schematic ! not sure how i missed that !
I have ordered one from alliexpress so i will be close to getting it soon .

[Jamie]

Hi.
I have a ecu plugs and socket from another vehicle that i am making a patch lead from and can start to move the inputs to the 0.4 board.

[Jamie]

My basic pin out hopefully goes like this ..

1b - key on 12v + power
1f - ignition coil 1
1h - ig coil 2
1g - ig coil 3
1m - ig coil 4
1i - ig coil 5
1l - ig coil 6
1p - ig coil 7
1o - ig coil 8
As the cop coils are dumb i have a 8 channel bip373 driver to install .

2a - crank vr +
2b - crank vr -
2c - cam vr +
2d - cam vr -
2g - knock 1?
2h - knock 2 ?
2m - e-throttle or isc with mechanical
2n - efi relay and coil relay
2o - coolant fans relay
2p - fuel pump relay

3a - ground linked to engine and chassis all 4.
3b - ground
3c - ground
3d - ground
3i - tps2 from pedal
3j -
3k - 5v + sensor power
3l -
3m - tps
3n - wide band o2
3o - map
3p - iat
3q - cts

3t - inj #1
3y - inj #2
3u - inj #3
3z - inj #4
3v - inj #5
3w - inj #6
3s - inj #7
3x - inj #8

Well that is plan A

[Jamie]

Hi.
Its not a good wiring diagram.

[AndreyB]

Something not right with images - can you spell out how are you trying to add these? Do you have files on your desktop or are they internet files?

There is "attach" button for local files

[Jamie]

The images are on my phone and used the attachment tab below .
Serched files and uploaded them .
They showed up in preview .
I will try again .

[AndreyB]

2m - e-throttle or isc with mechanical

No e-throttle in rusEfi really at the moment

[Jamie]

2m - e-throttle or isc with mechanical

No e-throttle in rusEfi really at the moment

I was thinking ahead a bit .
Will try to keep the factory ecu in the system to run e-throttle but i can change the throttle body to mechanical and run isc valve .
The factory ecu seems to have only 75% throttle up to 4000 rpm then gives 100% to 6000 rpm.
Torque limiting !!
Might need to put resistors on old ecu injector and ignition coil circuits to stop error codes ?

[Jamie]

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Funny things smart phones .
Could not post the photos i took but can take screen shots of them and up load them .
Hmm smart phone ???

[Jamie]

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I had it running and drove it on to the hoist to pull the engine out .
Was fun to remove as the chassis rail was wrapped around the headders and timing cover .
Normally there is about 25mm each side of the engine

[kb1gtt]

Looks like they where a tree huger. I wonder if they decided that being a tree hugger wasn't the best idea they have had
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=tree%20hugger

[Jamie]

All the tree huggers over here have Lexus and Range Rovers so they can bond with nature in the big citys .