Hello Paul,Mark Caviezel here. Say, just when I was warming up to= Mazda rotary power, I see that Tracy Crook is retiring from the reduction and electronic ignition supply biz. What are the options?=
  Mark Caviezel

There are lots of options on electronic EFI and ignition out there.
Megasquirt is the best known with the most free support.
http://www.megamanual.com/index.html

Top end is Motec
http://www.motec.com/home
http://www.motec.com/products/productoverview/



I will be building a side draft carb based on the existing slide throttle and Holley parts. As soon as I get the turbo compound engine done and tested.


I will also be building an improved Ross gear box copy.
The improved gear box coupling is being tested shortly on a p-port
3 rotor.

Paul Lamar


BTW I notice that Motec has a CDI system for rotaries.

Motec uses the CAN bus and there are CAN bus to USB adapters so you can
use your tablet for engine parameters display (in theory) :)

Paul Lamar
-- This Motec stuff is far more sophisticated than Tracy ever imagined.
Probably very pricey as I have not priced it out yet.
4D mixture maps. It has a whole raft of supporting equipment and data
acquisition.
Obviously millions of man hours have gone into the development.
I would pay the price over the megasquirt which has turned into a
monstrous kludge.


Paul Lamar


Don't put off the possibility that Tracy's line will be continued by
some other vendor.
Rich



Did Tracy ever say why he was retiring?
David Bonorden


Not that I know about.

Paul Lamar

Paul,
Is "Microtech" same as Motec?
Marc


No

http://www.microtechefi.com/

Paul Lamar

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