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Hi Guys and Girls,

I have been looking at interfacing the Nissan Consult software with a in-dash touchscreen... mainly to use as a gauge cluster but to also check on things for routine maintenance.

With this I will be able to display quite a few gauges at once and if I was to but all these gauges and fit them... not only would it cost a fair bit, it would also clutter my dash... this is hopefully going to be a cheaper and much neater/cooler looking option.

If anyone has played with/has this set up, any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks

Scotty

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it would onlywork if you have the stock ecu wouldnt it ?

any probs wiith my car and they have to disconnect my mines ecu and plug a stockie in

From what I thought the consult was there to read data from all the different sensors and display them so that mechanics could try and diagnose problem areas.

I wouldn't think a different ecu would make any difference as it basically is doing the same... reading data from the sensors... the difference is that it then outputs signals to control the engine.

Wouldn't the consult just be "looking" at the sensors data and therefore not effecting what the ecu see's?

Check some of the other areas, there was a guy over east (Nukleer I think) who made cables and free software, think it could interface to a screen too. I guess aslong as the aftermarket ecu still processes signals through the consult port it would work..

it needs the stock ecu. the consult gets data from the ecu, which reads it from the sensors (make sense to do that, since the ecu needs to read data from sensors to run the engine). therefore non-nissan ecu's wont support consult (copyright, patents, etc)

check out mp3car.com forums for carpc setups. if u get a carpc with usb only, then get a usb consult interface, otherwise a serial one (blazt.biz at the moment, since im not making any right now). or get a serial then a serial/usb adaptor would be more flexible, eg if u changed your mind in future and wanted to hook up a pocket pc instead (which usb wont work for). a carpc setup with consult should be no diff from a normal laptop etc running consult software - u just need the cable, software and stock ecu (remap, piggyback etc ok)

some threads on ns.com on carpc setups:

http://www.nissansilvia.com/forums/index.p...howtopic=204411

http://www.nissansilvia.com/forums/index.p...howtopic=193117

http://www.nissansilvia.com/forums/index.p...howtopic=187156

Edited by NewKleer

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