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FozzyGSI

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21st Jan 06 at 21:19

What exactly is needed to do this.

Sounds pretty cool and i know someone has done this but cant remember who?

Its for a c20xe corsa btw

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21st Jan 06 at 21:20

why ??? what do you hope to gain from it

the only reason i can ever thinking of doing it is when using aftermarket stand-alone managment to monitor and alter and engine map etc

[Edited on 21-01-2006 by jr]

broster

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21st Jan 06 at 21:23

can see a bit of info about the engine if you write a prog for it...... lots of effort. some one on sxoc did if for their s14a, put a screen in where they dials used to be, very very cool....

FozzyGSI

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21st Jan 06 at 21:24

Dont know why i would but it might be interesting and cool in a way

What exactly is needed jr?

FozzyGSI

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21st Jan 06 at 21:26

quote:
Originally posted by broster
can see a bit of info about the engine if you write a prog for it...... lots of effort. some one on sxoc did if for their s14a, put a screen in where they dials used to be, very very cool....

Write a program....................thats that idea down the toilet then, theres no way i can do that.

50Calibre

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21st Jan 06 at 21:27

laptop, power supply, dash mounted monitor preferably touchscreen, and obd software and an appropriate adapter to connect to the car

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21st Jan 06 at 21:29

i really suggest yiou forget it, when i ran omex managment use to play around with rev limits etc and a few simple bits, rest of it is to scary to play with

broster

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21st Jan 06 at 21:31

i dont dare plug my laptop in to my management, id fuck it up within seconds....

FozzyGSI

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21st Jan 06 at 21:32

quote:
Originally posted by 50Calibre
laptop, power supply, dash mounted monitor preferably touchscreen, and obd software and an appropriate adapter to connect to the car

How mucho is this gonna cost

It sounds pretty expensive

jr il probably never do this but thought i post just out of interest and once again it would be cool to adjust rev limits and possibly iron out a few probs.

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21st Jan 06 at 21:34

iirc you cant ran diagnostics on then standard ecu or DTA/Omex etc

what you really need is a VW, then you can buy VAG.COM and play with that

FozzyGSI

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21st Jan 06 at 21:34

quote:
Originally posted by broster
i dont dare plug my laptop in to my management, id fuck it up within seconds....

True............could create alot of problems rather than fix them.

Matt H

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21st Jan 06 at 21:44

I have Omex ECU, the connection kit & a spare laptop. James, sort me out babe

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21st Jan 06 at 21:45

i can look at all the nice numbers, i just dont know what to change thats all

FozzyGSI

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21st Jan 06 at 21:46

quote:
Originally posted by Matt H
I have Omex ECU, the connection kit & a spare laptop. James, sort me out babe

Let us know how ya get on with this

pleeeease

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21st Jan 06 at 21:51

it easy as matt has a omex ecu, there designed to me connected

thing is though, you've got to be a pro at mapping stuff like this really, as its the diffrence between your car detonating, and driving normaly

broster

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21st Jan 06 at 21:52

quote:
Originally posted by jr
it easy as matt has a omex ecu, there designed to me connected

thing is though, you've got to be a pro at mapping stuff like this really, as its the diffrence between your car detonating, and driving normaly

agreed, watching someone do mine for a fair few hours, it really is amazing.... an art if you ask me

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21st Jan 06 at 21:56

its one of the few things that scares me on cars and one that i wont do

the other is cutting into £300 carbon bonnets

FozzyGSI

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21st Jan 06 at 22:04

quote:
Originally posted by jr
it easy as matt has a omex ecu, there designed to me connected

thing is though, you've got to be a pro at mapping stuff like this really, as its the diffrence between your car detonating, and driving normaly

One wrong click of the mouse and boom

broster

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21st Jan 06 at 22:41

quote:
Originally posted by jr
its one of the few things that scares me on cars and one that i wont do

the other is cutting into £300 carbon bonnets

haha, ask J1M (or jim) to do it!

Robin

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21st Jan 06 at 22:51

Jim'll fix it...........

sorry

Mertin

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22nd Jan 06 at 09:33

would it be best for turbo cars also?

seen people do it with golf turbos

Dave A

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22nd Jan 06 at 10:14

quote:
Originally posted by FozzyGSI

One wrong click of the mouse and boom

Omex is a very simple program to use. very difficult to fook anything up actually as all of the parameters are locked until you unlk them and send the revised data to the ecu

then when you know what you are doing, you can play around with the actual map. basicly its :

coolant temp / air temp / crank position / throttle position / injector parameters.

If you just want something nice to look at on the screen, you can collect all these parameters together and watch the figures go up and down while you drive along.

Stu_22

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22nd Jan 06 at 10:57

Also I'm sure this must be the same for all the aftermarket ECU's, the map can be saved. So go out there play about with it fcuk it up and then just go back to the original map

[Edited on 22-01-2006 by Stu_22]

Dave A

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22nd Jan 06 at 10:59

quote:
Originally posted by Stu_22
Also I'm sure this must be the same for all the aftermarket ECU's, the map can be saved. So go out there play about with it fcuk it up and then just go back to the original map

[Edited on 22-01-2006 by Stu_22]

yes. but dont fuck with the timing and fuelling map

Steve

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22nd Jan 06 at 10:59

[Edited on 22-01-2006 by Corsa_Sam]

[Edited on 22-01-2006 by Corsa_Sam]

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