Bigtimmay.
The megasquirt system seems to be pretty straight forward as far as installation, But writing all the programs it needs, is a Big challenge for me.
Yeah but if your like me and you want some real power say 400+ your gonna have to tune it no matter what unless you wanna break stuff often. An when it come to tuning your basically either gonna use a J3 chip or run a stand alone ECU and from the programs Ive seen used by both for tuning the Squirt seems simpler.
I love my turbofords but they are old and well when ya drive one you better have spare parts on hand. Most of the parts that fail 90% of the time while driving a TF can be replaced/removed by swapping in a squirt. Also you can get squirts that plug in place of the stock ECU (PIMP ECU is just one of those) now so there is very minimal wiring needed if any.
If your gonna run the engine relatively stock sure ya can just drop in a large Vam,La3 ECU, brown top injectors and turn the boost to 15 psi and with a AFPR to 18 psi and just drive it. But like I said if your planning on a larger turbo,injectors, 20+ psi, High flowing BV head well then ya miswell do it once and not have to redo it later.
That detail zone harness is a nice piece though its alot nicer then my Merkur harness.