Having a hard time believing this is the same car. It's finally going to see the road in just days!!
July 26, 2011
July 22, 2011
Summer is hot, hard to do work.
Fidel Cashflow's UCF20 has been invading my mind lately. I'm pretty sure one of these will have to replace the Protege/daily/winter car in the future.
In other news, there isn't much to report.
In other news, there isn't much to report.
July 5, 2011
Update from the cave.
I've been really doing a lot lately, but summer also makes me do things like drink, watch movies and try to actually chill a bit. Decided to put in a lot of work but balance it with the good weather.
anyway, less QQ more Pew Pew.. here's some shots of junk that happened lately:
Quick testing of the new ARK MFD. such a nice little thing for swap projects. wish this existed years ago for this cheap (compared to buying all the gauges it replaces). It's on test mode in the pic. when i wired in the R154 digital sender directly to it it already picked up a great signal and started to work perfect right away, all I have to do is play with the number of pulses and even tweak it for % of tire size differences and it will be super accurate. too cool, something that actually isn't a pain to work with for once. too bad it didn't take 0-5v wideband signals from a controller or have the option to hook an extra pressure signal up to the FPR.
In the pic above from left to right (fuel %, wideband, tach, ark mfd) red button is tach peak recall and functions.
This new cluster will be tinted black so you will really not see the carbon/kevlar so well, just the illumination. going to leave the ARK MFD to monitor 8 functions, so i won't need to access it, plus it'll be secure in there behind the plastic sheet, and also stay relatively clean.
original dash was like tach/speedo/temp/fuel and tipical warning lights?
the new cluster is basically:
SPA Design Tach
AEM Wideband
Autometer programmable Fuel level %
Signal lights / High beam / Check engine
Boost with peak warning
Water temp with peak warning
Oil temp with peak warning
Oil pressure with low warning
Throttle %
Injector %
Charge / Low voltage warning
and best for last a digital speedometer driven from the digital toyota transmission sensor.
I'm pretty proud of this thing. beats all the last attempts at building a dash by 100X once it's in the car, will be happy to make a video of how it looks/works. lets me keep the whole dash looking stock and clean, and when the key is off, you probably won't even see the stuff crammed into the cluster behind the tint. I could have bought the new ARK MFD2 but it was based on OBDII so it would be a gamble that it might not work with the tipical wiring splice method. plus i can update the visual appearance to the new MFD2 software anytime though a usb port.
anyway, less QQ more Pew Pew.. here's some shots of junk that happened lately:
Quick testing of the new ARK MFD. such a nice little thing for swap projects. wish this existed years ago for this cheap (compared to buying all the gauges it replaces). It's on test mode in the pic. when i wired in the R154 digital sender directly to it it already picked up a great signal and started to work perfect right away, all I have to do is play with the number of pulses and even tweak it for % of tire size differences and it will be super accurate. too cool, something that actually isn't a pain to work with for once. too bad it didn't take 0-5v wideband signals from a controller or have the option to hook an extra pressure signal up to the FPR.
This new cluster will be tinted black so you will really not see the carbon/kevlar so well, just the illumination. going to leave the ARK MFD to monitor 8 functions, so i won't need to access it, plus it'll be secure in there behind the plastic sheet, and also stay relatively clean.
original dash was like tach/speedo/temp/fuel and tipical warning lights?
the new cluster is basically:
SPA Design Tach
AEM Wideband
Autometer programmable Fuel level %
Signal lights / High beam / Check engine
Boost with peak warning
Water temp with peak warning
Oil temp with peak warning
Oil pressure with low warning
Throttle %
Injector %
Charge / Low voltage warning
and best for last a digital speedometer driven from the digital toyota transmission sensor.
I'm pretty proud of this thing. beats all the last attempts at building a dash by 100X once it's in the car, will be happy to make a video of how it looks/works. lets me keep the whole dash looking stock and clean, and when the key is off, you probably won't even see the stuff crammed into the cluster behind the tint. I could have bought the new ARK MFD2 but it was based on OBDII so it would be a gamble that it might not work with the tipical wiring splice method. plus i can update the visual appearance to the new MFD2 software anytime though a usb port.
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