StephenDone

I've seen a guage pod that replaces the small glove box above the stereo - see link on GGR's site below. I am after a blank faced pod that I can cut/drill myself.

Gareth Allan

try scoobymania, they do one for £80 + vat. I don't know if it comes with out holes though...

Also, try Chiarks webpage

StephenDone

Thanks Gareth,

I'll check them out.

Steve

Chris Clayton

Give Craig Hardman a try at New Age
Motorsport, he does the defi gauge pod,
looks great but don't know whether it comes
pre-drilled or not.
think again it is about £99 quid though.

Cheers

Chris C.

StephenDone

Thanks for the pointers,

The scoobymania version is ideal for me, and is a nicer shape than the GGR one.

Cheers

Steve

mutant_matt

Steve,

The Defi pod comes in either 52mm or 60mm pre-cut (three holes). Craig @ New Age Motorsport does these (

StephenDone

No holes (scoobymania) is the one for me, unless someone does square ones ;-)

I'm fitting one of these...

mutant_matt

What's that then and what will it measure? (and what size is it???)

Cheers,

Matt.

StephenDone

It is 10cm wide and displays two rows of 20 characters.

I need to interface to my ECU using the OBD-II connector that you find by your right knee below the steering wheel on the underslope of the footwell.

It will display boost, ignition retard, coolant temp, air temp, lambda data etc. I.e. whatever I can extract from the ECU.

If I get my code right, it'll also tell you when to change gear, plus time your 0-60s and in gear acceleration, but that's an awful lots of programming that I haven't even thought about yet !

Don't worry - I'll publish all the details on my site once I get it working, but it's going to be a few weeks yet.

Cheers

Steve

Hanslow

Nice idea

I had thoughts about doing something like this, somewhat akin to what the ol' Nissan Skyline has, but being a bit of a techno retard wouldn't have a clue where to start!

I can program, no problem there...it's my job. It's just getting all the info from the ECU, knowing what info you <I>can</I> get from it and then writing the code to an EEPROM or something (I'm only used to writing executable system programs).

Will be interested to see how it turns out

Would like to help, but you probably don't need it, and I probably wouldn't be much anyway

Keep us posted.....

PeterPerfect

Sounds like a fantastic project Steve !
Please keep us posted

LOL Hanslow...."I can program, no problem there"....yes, but your idea of coding is red-lining the keyboard buffer

Pete

Hanslow

Just cos you ain't spent many a late night coding your latest masterpiece Pete I only go through a keyboard about once a fortnight

Seriously Steve, if you need any help with it, and I am able to help, i.e. it ain't beyond my simple brain, then please drop me a line.

StephenDone

Thanks for the offer. Help would be great.

How are you at Delphi or 8051 microcontroller assembler ?

I am going to prototype everything in Delphi on my laptop, and then port it to assembler. The Delphi classes will be released open source, once I'm not to embarrassed about the quality of my code :-)

If you want to find out a bit more, there's a group on

Hanslow

Hmmm, I'm a C/C++ programmer....but I don't mind giving anything a go! From what I've heard, delphi ain't too bad and at least it is understandable. As far as assembler goes, I'm afraid I'm scuppered there

Count me in on the project, although it may take me a little while to get up to speed with a new language , unless you can also program in C/C++ ?

But I'd be willing to help out anyway, even if it means learning a bit of delphi.

Let me know if you want me aboard

StephenDone

I'm in two minds as to whether to get the ScoobyMania pod or the Subaru one. I need to machine a very neat hole in the front panel, and it's going to be rather tricky if the front panel is not removable - the Subaru version is removable, whilst the ScoobyMania one is not.

Does anyone know _how_much_ dash hacking is necessary in order to fit the Subaru one ? Is it straightforward, or a bit dicey ?

Cheers

Steve

Houlbt

Steve......


You have mail, apologies in advance for file size, but I think you will agree it was worth it.

H.(Dashboard expert )

[BUT.....not spelling expert....doh!!!]

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igratton

You guys will have fun with this.

The signal that comes from the OBD-II connector is not directly compatible with serial (U-ART) interface on a PC/Laptop.

There are some conversion cables you can get but its not as straightforward as you may think.

I have some software that takes very general readings from any car with an ODB-II compliant connector.

I also have the structures for the data that comes back over the wire and the calculations required to convert them into real data.

Have fun guys

Ian

StephenDone

You mean like a multiplex engineering ISO-9141 interface and an SAE HS-3000 standards book ?

Steve

ChrisB

Sounds like an excellent project.

Serious commercial possibilities to be looked perhaps?

ChrisB.

StephenDone

Actually, to make things just that little more interesting, pre MY01 UK Imprezas aren't OBD-II compliant, and mine is a '99.

Steve

StephenDone

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You have mail, apologies in advance for file size, but I think you will agree it was worth it.

H.(Dashboard expert )
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Thanks for the pics, Tom.

Cheers

Steve