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Hey guys, i managed to get my grubby fingers on THE Apexi Communication Software. Its in japanese but its pretty easy to understand. Now I hven't bought my Power FC yet (waiting to find someone to sell the PFC + Controller + Boost Controller for under $900, should have it soon) so I can't really test it. From what I can make of it you apparently need a junction box to plug a serial port into and an adapter caeble from the Power FC. Does anyone have any pics of the box, or an actual box so I can replicate the electronics (can't be too hard, I know sufficient amounts of electronics n microprocessor programming).

Hmm I've already read a few jap books on tuning the Power FC and reccomended fuel maps for skylines etc and how it works, so hopefully soon enough I'll be able to tune my own car n not have to spend $100's at some shop payin some guy to tap in numbers (coz there's no better dyno than data collected while on the road during city driving and open road driving and track racing, which the communicator n a laptop does brilliantly).

I'm currently tryin to modify the software (I've managed to decompile a little bit of the interface module, should be pretty simple to change all the labels to english characters and recompile).

So any help on how to use the software, what hardware I need, any pics, documents, tips, offers to buy (:)) would help. Damn thing cost 650 bucks, better be worth it.

I already found it, jusst a matter of sending the money to the shop in japan, waiting for their SWIFT Code, lazy jap people and their extended Golden Week plus a few days holidays... the whole concept of the hardworking japanese man is highly deluded, esp tuning shop owners, very lazy people :)

Oh yeah, its second hand but who gives a toss. I've wasted so much money on this RB25 conversion.

I already found it, jusst a matter of sending the money to the shop in japan, waiting for their SWIFT Code, lazy jap people and their extended Golden Week plus a few days holidays... the whole concept of the hardworking japanese man is highly deluded, esp tuning shop owners, very lazy people :D

Holly crap !! Any chance of getting another one at that price... LOL

Do you mind me asking where you found the software?

Would be really useful etc.

Cheers

J

I can ask, they're a wrecker/tuning shop based in Chiba. Software was through a dubious source (OK fine it was from the same place lol they just made a backup of it as long as the guy who I go thru in Japan promised that they would never hear of it again and it didn't stay in the country, coz apparently they get reamed hardcore for leaking the software).

Yeah PM me, I'll let you know if they get more stuff. I got a container comin down on the 22nd of may with all my goodies so if you need anything I can chuck it in there, but can we keep the rest of this thread to software usage and link hardware? PM me if you need stuff rather than posting it here. Wanna try n keep it as informational as possible.

had a look at the datalogit website as soon as I saw the Apexi software (coz to be honest I think the datalogit guys did the same thing as what I'm trying to do, just more "safely" by developing something to mimick the apexi software.

But one thing I noticed is that their software is ECU specific, wheras the Apexi software is generic and even supports the DJETRO versions. I'm assuming this isn't a limitation of the datalogit software itself, but more of the junction box that they use. But yeah their junction box dosen't seem too different from the description of the junction box I got from the tuner... which was along the lines of "APEXU junction boxu something something serial port RB25 computer soemthing komanda plug softuware." ***t if I can decypher that lol.

Fellas can we hold off the business propositions till the junction box is sorted out? Right now I'm just treating this as a pet project, not a business venture.

If and only if I get the whole thing working 100% will I entertain any propositions. I'd hate to recieve a dud product that dosen't work unless you have all the parts.

Also if I gave away copies right now it would mean that I'd probably never get any help getting it to work.

and lw, yeah my jap skills are l33t but there's some kanji that I don't understand, esp the newage kanji with computer lingo etc. And yeah the only reason I started this is because I wanna tune my own car, instead of having some amaure/professional try to poke around using my hand controller changing variables, which I can do too, and then charge me an arm and a leg for it.

Also if I learn how to do it, maybe I can help others too, so they don't have to pay $250 and more for ECU remaps etc. I mean come on, EEPROM programmer = $50, PROM/EEPROM/PRAM chip = $5 at most, maps = about a year of reading manuals etc. I don't see the justification in charging ludicrous amounts for textbook stuff.

I'm really shit at mechanics, but I'm good with microprocessor programming, so I figure I've already got a head start on all the dodgy ECU remappers.

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