Check this out!

http://www.aussiemagna.com/forums/showpost.php?p=1030182&postcount=2162

that sick as! dont understand it all ;) but its wicked haha

LOL 3 things came to mind
1) That is pretty cool....when that's done that'd be a wicked tool to have in the car
2) OMG BRO IM REVVING AT EX70 SICKKK!!!!
3) Nerrrrdddddddddddd
:happy:

']LOL 3 things came to mind
1) That is pretty cool....when that's done that'd be a wicked tool to have in the car
2) OMG BRO IM REVVING AT EX70 SICKKK!!!!
3) Nerrrrdddddddddddd
:happy:


lol haha!

Its very cool what he has managed to do, as he has only JUST got it working. With some basic C programming it should be working very well indeed. I wonder if anyone on this forum would know what the 4th pin is for? Madmagna?

Ah the joys of running an aftermarket ECU.

This really is quite a breakthrough. Imagine, instead of that LCD, an interface to a full computer system. The readouts are displayed as gauges on the computer's LCD... which can then be mounted where the instrument cluster sits.

Digital dash ftw. A man can dream, can't he? lol

Seriously though, I look forward to seeing the next version of this and then possibly some schematics to make these ourselves. Possibly also a computer interface to read the data. (but he is using a Mac there, so us Mac users may see the stuff first... :D)

diagnostics wouldnt let you reprogram it would it?

diagnostics wouldnt let you reprogram it would it?
Yeah, upload windows to it.

All I wanna do is piss off the mechanical Speedo and install an aftermarket electronic 300km/h speedo :eek2: :ninja:

Has this guy recreated the wheel?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v124/mohit/Verada/verada43.jpg

Has this guy recreated the wheel?

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I think he has, but this time, on a Second Gen. Considering the Second Gen uses a much older serial data interface that is otherwise largely ignored by aftermarket products suppliers, I think he's done a pretty good home job.

Has this guy recreated the wheel?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v124/mohit/Verada/verada43.jpg

While a few things like this exist for various cars, most of them are for newer ODB2 cars, and some are for aftermarket ECUs (such as the Wolf3D for example)

Part of this project is the "fun" and "customizable" aspect of it. Give me a couple weeks and you might be slightly more interested.

This really is quite a breakthrough. Imagine, instead of that LCD, an interface to a full computer system. The readouts are displayed as gauges on the computer's LCD... which can then be mounted where the instrument cluster sits.

Digital dash ftw. A man can dream, can't he? lol

Seriously though, I look forward to seeing the next version of this and then possibly some schematics to make these ourselves. Possibly also a computer interface to read the data. (but he is using a Mac there, so us Mac users may see the stuff first... :D)

There are a few programs that will do it .. EvoScan is some commercial software that will do it (with the 12-pin ALDL cabel they sell:
http://limitless.co.nz/

Plus this:
http://mmcdlogger.sourceforge.net/

Will display it on a palm .. I am currently hooking up this display:
http://www.pjrc.com/tech/8051/board5/lcd_128x64_1s.jpg

And writing some more advanced software which should make it a little more shmick.


One word of note! If your car has ABS, plugging in a device like this will -DISABLE THE ABS- ... you need to do some hacking to get around that .. if you don't have ABS then it's all good.

Although completely useless for someone with a full aftermark ECU.

Can you explain for those who don't understand what you have made, what the benifits of this tool is? Is it going to allow you to tweak your Air/Fuel mixtures or is it purely a diagnostic tool for when something is playing up?

On that note, just spoke to your mate Andrew Mews, said you run: http://www.rflan.org/

Hey man, glad you got my message on youtube.

http://www.aussiemagna.com/forums/showthread.php?t=59085 those are the schematics I used to build mine, could never find a laptop with a serial port though.

Although completely useless for someone with a full aftermark ECU.

Can you explain for those who don't understand what you have made, what the benifits of this tool is? Is it going to allow you to tweak your Air/Fuel mixtures or is it purely a diagnostic tool for when something is playing up?

Yes .. so basically you can read all sorts of interesting statistics out of the ECU - you can see a reasonable list here: http://mmcdlogger.sourceforge.net/ (scroll down to 'About the Protocol')

This is useful because you can check a number of values that tell you

- O2 Sensor - tells you how much oxygen is in the exhaust gas (see http://auto.howstuffworks.com/question257.htm for more information) - you can look at the values and make sure they are in spec, there is also another interesting one
- Fuel Trim - Essentailly your ECU (based on the O2 reading) - can lean out or richen up the fuel mixture, but only about +/- 20% of the "standard" value => so if your fuel trim is at -20 or +20% - then it is trying to make it richer or leaner but it can't and you are wasting fuel or not using enough, sacrificing power, etc .. so you know you'll need to check out why if this value is out of spec - might need to do some cleaning of injectors for example
- There is also a lot of other values that you can get some diagnostic info out of such as the Knock sensor etc .. I am not the biggest wiz in cars such that I can't explain *all* the ins and outs of all of them but if you look around you can read about more knowledgable peoples advice.


On that note, just spoke to your mate Andrew Mews, said you run: http://www.rflan.org/

Indeed I run the RFLAN Network & Website/Intranet.. :) Do you attend?