Nismo R34 MFD

[ylwgtr2]

I finally got around to unpacking my nismo MFD set...heres whats in the kit....

Usually the day must be maximised by underneath the car jobs but atleast i can fit these bits while sitting on the couch watching the telly at night!!!

[inark]

id probably be imporessed.... had i actually had a clue what the hell that is and did

lesson time troy

[ylwgtr2]

its an upgrade for the monitor...it gives you a lap timer,2 bar boost display instead of factory 1.2 and a trick G force grid...It shows a dot in the centre of a grid and the grid is separated into .2 Gs up to 1 g...as you drive it shows the g force on the car.....It also has data logging feature for all the functions of the MFD(multi fuction display...or what we know as the telly in the centre of the dash!)Has a few other features too....

[inark]

sweeeet... so u log stuff onto a laptop too? for what ever reason

[predator]

does it have pacman on it?

[ylwgtr2]

ummm yes...i have an Xbox fitted to the car with emulators in it

[funkymonkey]

hehe ahh yes the xbox... stealing my ideas n all... yeesh...

as for the nismo doohickey, was it standard on UK spec R34 GTR's coz I could of sworn I've got a video of a dude rambling on about it as a stock part. esp the G meter n stuff, and how you can log data to your laptop for review later that night.

[strutto]

was it standard on UK spec R34 GTR's?

Sure was...

ylwgtr2: Where did you pick it up from and how much if I can ask? Dad's been after one for awhile now...

[ylwgtr2]

i bought it from my friend...he is a Nismo dealer... i got it a while ago so i forgot what it costed

[meshmesh]

a trick G force grid......as you drive it shows the g force on the car.....It also has data logging feature for all the functions of the MFD

Like Jeremy Clarkson says...

"Plug this into your computer, and you can compare your drive home with the ight before... [insert pommy sarcasm here].. wow, that should impress the ladies"

[Snowman]

oh oh oh - I saw this on the cars in the new GT-R dvd and I want it. The lap time thingy would be good, although I was curious on how it was activated.

[inark]

u can buy them locally but theyre about 980 or something...

[DJ_L3ThAL]

HA! i chipped that XBOX, w00t, i can say i had some input into troy's GTR

so troy when your cars winning awards at mega car shows and your doing your thank-you speach dont forget NOOFMODS

[funkymonkey]

lmao... hmm now he's got an xbox in the car, and u've got one, and so do I... all running noofmods. hope your warranty covers in-car mishaps

BTW out of the 3 of us I have the largest screen (10") so

[DJ_L3ThAL]

hehe but my XBOX has a 250gig hard drive with a LOT more games movies n mp3s

[halz]

I have an xbox in my car too.. and I thought my R33 was slightly unique... oh well

Time to think of another geek mod to my car.. lol

[halz]

Speaking of which.. has anyone in melbourne got a DataLogit it -> http://www.fc-datalogit.co.nz

I emailed them a few weeks back and they do support GTS-T now.. so nothing stopping me.. except waiting for my PowerFC to arrive and finding the money

[adznight]

.........Bastard....

[funkymonkey]

hehe noof I've got a 250gig too now... and its filling up fast. I need that SDK disc badly.

I'm actually thinking of doing a datalogit style decoder that will hook up to an xbox and give you live readings straight from an ECU (not a power FC). Once I get the go ahead from uni I should be able to do it as my final year thesis. It shouldn't be too hard.

The datalogit is a bit much for a simple piece of hardware with custom decoding software on it. And going by the reviews I've read on it, apparently it was developed using sample data, not reverse engineering of the Power FC, so I dunno bout its accuracy. But then again, its pretty much the only thing that works in english.

[halz]

Wow.. someone else with any interest in this stuff..

I've emailed the guys from Datalogit about running it on an XBox, but with no reply. Simply running it on the Xbox on Windows CE (when its ready..) or under Linux (using VMWare or Bochs or something..) is an option -- the xbox has USB so it really shouldn't be that hard.

I agree that DataLogIt is quite expensive, but considering what kind of people would be interested in buying it.. its what the market can bear after all

What University are you going to? I work fulltime but am completing CompSci at Latrobe Bundoora (2 Subjects left) at the sametime.. I used to live up there and all. Small World