vnstu
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- vn berlina s1 5.0L
...An iPhone ECU would be unreal! and the ultimate anti theft device, don't have your iphone, can't steal your car...
there's already a megasquirt thingie which uses your iphone to monitor/tune the megasquirt. I dont know how far it goes. But the idea would be to have some limited electronics in the car who's job it is to convert the sensor data into a digital feed you can pump up into the iphone for processing. And yeah... pull your phone, and good luck getting the car started. Although it's a pain if your missus wants to borrow the car...
putting money into any of these cars is a waste cause youll never get it back if you ever sell
yeah dont I know it. I ran some numbers the other day, the car has cost me like $20k over the past 5 years or so, mostly petrol
but it's hard to tinker like this on the newer cars. The vn is pretty basic electronically, there's room for playing...
Digital MAP gauge, Digital temp.gauge, Tripmeter, datalogger, gear indicator...
not too hard, thought about it all for the digital dash. It's mostly just a case of using an appropriate a2d, then dealing with the rest in software on the micro.
I definitely wont be starting with full hybrid... ;-)Rather than full hybrid maybe start with alternator cut out...
Thought about it, something to work towards, definitely.
i've had a serious think about this one. If you're gonna tinker to try and improve fuel economy, it would be nice to actually know what your economy is... The trick is knowing how much fuel you have, and how much you're using. Maybe between fuel pressure and injector duty cycle you could figure out your fuel consumption.Tripmeter, MPGuidino style
A sequential injection add-on board for the Delco would be cool because then you could change the phasing of the injection wrt the inlet valve opening for best economy and/or power.
yeah and it wouldnt be hard to do, a 4-gas sensor or some such up the tail pipe and you could just manually tune the phase, then just store the settings...
my worry is that it might be kind of pointless with the vn manifold/injector/head set up. If the injectors are too far up the runners then it'll be harder to make a difference. Thing is, i've had it all in pieces on my bench, and never paid attention to exactly where the fuel ends up in the runner...thoughts anyone?
Also... the vt runs sequential I believe? What's the chances of the vt 5.0 manifold fitting on a vn?
hell yeah. This is something that even my skeptical old mechanic of a father likes. I was thinking just manual override for now... a hold down button somewhere convenient...so many times when i'm rolling down a hill too fast and I downchange the auto to save a bit of fuel..I would like to do is when the injection shuts off on over-run, at low speeds have the torque converter lock so that you can go down to even lower speeds without the engine staling.