I've been looking mighty hard at the http://www.auterraweb.com/ scantool. It does OBD-II troubleshooting (clear those CELs!), ECU monitoring (read what the ECU sees from it's sensors), and power measurements (dyno, 1/4 mile, hp, etc.)... all this and just from the OBD-II port. Experience? Research? Hook up?
WOW... $300 is way to much for that. You can get a obd2 scan tool for about $125 witht he cable and go buy a g-tech for under $100 and you have the same thing. Check out www.obd-2.com. Russ
I just bought this for $149 at Sears http://www.davisnet.com/drive/products/carchip_products.asp It records up to 300 hours of driving and the lets you load the data into a PC. Very fun new toy!
Ya no problem - if someone wants to drive out to EP sometime to play with the carchip or the accelerometer (0-60, 1/4mi, etc) that I have, let me know... Here is a PDF of some data from a drive today. First part is downtown to EP, the second part is some 0-60 runs I did... http://www.clonebox.com/files/GeneWRXCarChip.pdf
Hmmm, can you look at shorter areas of the logs? In your PDF scans, the time you logged makes all your readings very thin. It is interesting how your intake air is at ambient temperature in the middle of your logging, but at the beginning and the end the temp is above ambient. I may stop by Sears to ask about it. Thanks!
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Zola Higher temps occurred when he wasn't moving very fast, so it's probably general heat soak. <hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote"> Ya the car was idling prior to and at the end of the ride... so the air temp went up... I'm not sure of the position of the stock air temp sensor, but I think it's under the hood and not in the fender...
The stock temp sensor is in the maf housing. I know that my scan tool will do a bunch of different logs and such, and I think I even ran accross a 0-60 timer and such. I usually just use it for fuel trims and pulling codes. Russ
Russ, it could be just me, but I have a hard time trying to understand your OBD-2.com link. It's very long and I can't locate the price on the thingy. What features does it have? What does it have that others don't? Is there a way to tell if your car's running at best MPG at speed? Does it come with it's own monitoring device or do you supply a laptop/palm pilot? Is it easy to use, view, and check codes?
It looks like it is $122 for a single (only does 1 style of car such as gm, ford, chrysler, imports). The list is all the features. There are some many different things on the system that I don't use. I know with the newer software upgrade I can simulate the obd-II emmisions testing. I am going to have to try that out on my car. I use it with a laptop. It might support palm stuff, but I am not to sure. It all on the web site. As for the gas mileage thing, do you have a vac/boost gauge?? If you do, you want the vac to be as high (farther away from 0) as possible while driving. Russ
