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Target-Earth Blog!
Welcome to the blog section of my website. Here you'll find my mostly useless information on various retro gaming computers and consoles and a few other hobbies…
Some useful shortcuts:
- Video Game database - Online database of all my computers, consoles and games.
- Home Power Monitor - Electrical grid monitoring reports.
- Tech stuff - Retro gaming and computers, old electronics, network installers for Unix-like systems.
- Model making - Scale model making, sci-fi; Gundam, Macross, Maschinen Krieger…
- Miniatures - Miniatures painting.
- Car stuff - Rebuilds, projects and previous cars.
- Personal projects - Days out, DIY jobs, other unsorted stuff…
- Digital Photography - My very amateur attempts at digital photography.
- Book Collection - Cataloguing my book collection.
These pages have recently been changed or updated:
| Escort Work Log | 2024/07/26 20:45 | John |
| Escort Work Log - Lift Pump & Swirl Tank | 2024/07/26 20:37 | John |
| Escort Tech Info - Corsa EPS Controller Instructions | 2024/07/26 20:18 | John |
| Car Projects | 2024/07/26 20:15 | John |
| Escort Tech Info - MSD Evo chip setup | 2024/07/26 20:13 | John |
| Escort Tech Info - MSD Evo chip with closed-loop fuelling | 2024/07/26 19:59 | John |
| Escort Tech Info - MSD Closed Loop Fuelling setup | 2024/07/26 19:38 | John |
| Escort Tech Info - MSD Wasted Spark Driver | 2024/07/26 18:20 | John |
| Games Workshop / Warhammer 40000 / Space Marines | 2024/07/24 14:14 | John |
| Miniatures & Painting - Rackham: Confrontation, Hybrid & Nemesis - Ophidian Alliance | 2024/07/22 21:21 | John |
Latest Posts
Pages which have been added most recently:
Escort Tech Info - Corsa EPS Controller Instructions
Wiring guide and installation instructions for the Corsa EPS controller as installed on the Escort:
Escort Tech Info - MSD Evo chip with closed-loop fuelling
These are the combined steps to setup the Evolution chip from MSD when supplied with the closed-loop fuelling option. The instructions jump about a bit from document to document, but this is the full sequence, in order:
Escort Tech Info - MSD Evo chip setup
These are the standard setup instructions / guide for the Evo chip as installed in the Escort Cossie ECU. In my case this is a 320bhp map.
Note: Be careful when following the guide. If you also have closed-loop fuelling upgrade, then you can follow that guide, or read the full, combined installation procedure which merges both sets of instructions into a single sequence.
Escort Tech Info - MSD Wasted Spark Driver
This is the wasted spark driver board that is solder by Motorsport Developments for converting the Sierra Cosworth from distributor and coil to a more modern wasted spark system. In addition to the wasted spark driver internal to the ECU, a loom from the ECU to a pair of OEM type spark amplifiers, a Ford Zetec-style coilpack and Zetec to Cosworth ignition leads are necessary.
In addition to the instructions here, the distributor top can be removed, with the rotor arm and cap being replaced by a simple blanking plate:
The distributor should be retained as the base gear is necessary to mesh with the gearing of the oil pump. Internally, the phase sensor within the distributor is also retained for normal ECU systems.