Recent content by thesteve

It's just time, I think. At the end of the day these are old bikes, you REALLY have to love them to finish these kinds of projects. When I did this before I was doing it to the only motorcycle I owned at the time so there was a real incentive to get it all done. With this? I barely ride as it...

Well, I think it's time to move on. I don't ever ride the Goldwing and just don't really have the desire to keep playing with it. After going through a move and lamenting having to haul it around, I think it's best to let it go. Before I try craigslist or parting it out, is there anyone here who...

In case you were concerned that this project didn't have enough electronics in it, I found this online: It's an Arduino (Teensy, to be more accurate) powered gauge cluster. It uses the Megasquirts onboard CAN communication system to get data. I'm thinking about building a weather resistant...

Someone asked a good question via PM about the special injector driver board I'm running. It's worth posting the answer for everyone to see, since these bikes do use low impedance injectors. The question was: "Is that injector driver board actually needed?" Here's some more info on why that...

I just found this in the manuals for the Megasquirt system: https://www.msextra.com/doc/pdf/html/MS2 ... 4-153.html The factory pulse generator of the Goldwings (single tooth, dual pickup) is supported by the MS Devs! That means full spark control couldn't be easier to do. Lock the advances out...

Thanks! I'll be here. Explaining my projects and getting others interested in them is almost as fun as the projects themselves!

Watching the video, I mention the connector for the injectors. That's actually not a standard MS thing. Normally the injectors go right to the DB37 connector. Since the GL1200 injectors are low impedance, I chose to use a special injector driver board to handle them. Normally, with Low-Z...

https://youtu.be/q0SIHqiLyOE Here we go. It may take a few more minutes for Youtube to make it available in HD so that you can read what's on the laptop display. It's my first narrated video and I didn't really have any talking points planned out, so go easy on me.

Video coming soon. It's uploading to Youtube right now. They usually take some time to process it, but I'll post the link as soon as it's viewable.

Thanks guys! The hardest part of the whole thing was probably finding the 1200 plenum for a good price. Other than that it's really not a terribly difficult project if you don't mind not having the bike for a few weeks. It'd be neat to see more people doing these conversions.

It looks like there are a few others out there now. Megatunix has always been around as an open source one, but I don't know if it's still supported. The forums for it look pretty dead. There is apparently an Android app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/deta ... om.msdroid I've never used it...

There are "lite" versions of the tuning software (Tunerstudio MS and MegaLogViewer) which have the core functions for free. Unfortunately the full-featured free software Megatune isn't supported for any of the newer firmware versions, so if you want things like autotune you'll probably want to...

So I'll detail some of the wiring work next in case anyone's looking for a more start-to-finish guide on doing this. Most of it was pretty easy; you don't touch much Honda wiring at all, nor do you deviate much from the Megasquirt's own wiring guide here: You can see that there are only a few...

So I did use some GL1200 parts, but there's a lot of stuff that isn't ideal on the GL1200 that I had no interest in bringing over to mine. Even Honda gave up on EFI after just a few years with it; they didn't try again until the GL1800 as far as I'm aware. The GL1200 has two MAP sensors, uses...