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General => General Technical => Topic started by: jgraham95 on February 06, 2011, 08:38:53 PM

Title: MPG, 0-60 monitor?
Post by: jgraham95 on February 06, 2011, 08:38:53 PM
Alrighty every1.

was curious to whether there is anything out there that can digitally show you info on how my Rex8 is performing?

Looking for something that i can view my mpg(purely out of curiousity), 0-60 times and stuff alone those lines. I.e. performance information.

similar to a odometer but with some extras.
Title: MPG, 0-60 monitor?
Post by: dudsey on February 07, 2011, 05:40:48 AM
a vbox/performance box click click (http://www.performancebox.co.uk/overview.html)
Title: MPG, 0-60 monitor?
Post by: Marcrs on February 07, 2011, 08:40:20 AM
Scangauge is a pretty decent bit of kit, shows mpg, and bhp, among a heap of other useful info :)
Title: MPG, 0-60 monitor?
Post by: Prof on February 07, 2011, 08:46:53 AM
Isn\'t there something that works with the iphone - I think you need an obdII to wireless converter box - then there\'s software you run on the iphone - gets you all sorts of gauges and mpg and what have you :)
 
http://www.devtoaster.com/products/rev/
Title: MPG, 0-60 monitor?
Post by: yehreally on February 07, 2011, 06:19:30 PM
try \'Dynolicious\' if you have an iphone :WaveBye
Title: MPG, 0-60 monitor?
Post by: neil_jdmr on February 08, 2011, 01:35:24 AM
Or the torque app on android, only works on obd2 cars so should be fine on a rx8
Title: MPG, 0-60 monitor?
Post by: PGiljevic on February 08, 2011, 07:52:14 AM
Quote from: jgraham95;741069Alrighty every1.

was curious to whether there is anything out there that can digitally show you info on how my Rex8 is performing?

Looking for something that i can view my mpg(purely out of curiousity), 0-60 times and stuff alone those lines. I.e. performance information.

similar to a odometer but with some extras.


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Title: MPG, 0-60 monitor?
Post by: Ada7 on February 08, 2011, 09:08:46 AM
A mate of mine makes the Vboxes. He does the final production and testing.
Been asking him for ages to \'get\' me one ;)

Adam
Title: MPG, 0-60 monitor?
Post by: Prof on February 08, 2011, 09:40:57 AM
Being a bit of an electronics nerd, I quite like what this chappie has done with the new propeller chip from Parallax:
 
http://www.parallax.com/DAQPacAutomotiveDataLogger/tabid/849/Default.aspx
 
That\'s quite a clever bit of kit for sure ;)
 
Some guy over in Sweden is running a blown Volvo engine using one of these chips in a diy ECU - clearly a powerful chip.
Title: MPG, 0-60 monitor?
Post by: dudsey on February 15, 2011, 12:24:10 AM
Quote from: Ada7;741328A mate of mine makes the Vboxes. He does the final production and testing.
Been asking him for ages to \'get\' me one ;)

Adam

Buy one, they are worth it! Does he not get a discount?