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Hi All,

I hope this is in the right section but I would like to ask what people know of/are running which gives them a readout of various information like coolant temp, rpm, speed, afr, boost pressure etc? I would like something you can scroll through or list multiple items on.

I had a look around but couldnt really find anything (maybe I was searching the wrong terminology)

I believe my car has a NISTUNE in it, can I somehow read data off this?

Anyway, please let me know what you use/recommend

Car is an R33 GTST

Cheers

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I think I found my answer, get an ECUTALK Consult cable and using their software you can do data logging. I'll just get that.

Or get a cable and the nistune licence. Then rather than just logging you can make changes to the tune as needed.

The other thing to consider is Matt at nistune gives fantastic support.

Do it ;)

Bit of a noob to tuning so I'm a bit worried - It was tuned by a guy "Toshi" I think who should be on here (what the prev owner said) maybe I should leave it to the pros

Well, just to put my 2c in......Nistune is not something that you can use like a digital readout / guage in the same way that you could with a Consult module like NissDataScan. Having a laptop floating around in the cabin is not actually safe, legal or sensible most of the time. I've taken to having my daughter come along for a ride and hold the laptop and initiate and stop logging runs and so on rather than trying to do it myself.

If you don't know what you are doing when it comes to tuning, there are not too many things that you can do with Nistune, other than look and log. Logging may be useful enough. You can collect the right data to show a mechanic or tuner what is going on and save him the time and you the money.

If you develop a big enough understanding of how to do things in Nistune, EXCEPT how to actually tune fuelling and timing to get a desired result, you can still make major changes, such as rescale your maps, set it up for different injectors or AFM, etc etc. All of this can again save you a bunch of money at the tuners if you go down that modification path.

If you get a wideband and possibly some knock detection gear, and you're willing to try tuning yourself, you can do some road tuning. But again, it's not safe or legal, so much caution and sensible behaviour/choices are required to do it that way. If you can get access to someone's dyno it's a completely different story.

In short, Nistune is great. Deep understanding of how things are done is required to make changes if you want to avoid doing the wrong things. Not for the novice, but very rewarding once you know what's going on.

Well, just to put my 2c in......Nistune is not something that you can use like a digital readout / guage in the same way that you could with a Consult module like NissDataScan. Having a laptop floating around in the cabin is not actually safe, legal or sensible most of the time. I've taken to having my daughter come along for a ride and hold the laptop and initiate and stop logging runs and so on rather than trying to do it myself.

If you don't know what you are doing when it comes to tuning, there are not too many things that you can do with Nistune, other than look and log. Logging may be useful enough. You can collect the right data to show a mechanic or tuner what is going on and save him the time and you the money.

If you develop a big enough understanding of how to do things in Nistune, EXCEPT how to actually tune fuelling and timing to get a desired result, you can still make major changes, such as rescale your maps, set it up for different injectors or AFM, etc etc. All of this can again save you a bunch of money at the tuners if you go down that modification path.

If you get a wideband and possibly some knock detection gear, and you're willing to try tuning yourself, you can do some road tuning. But again, it's not safe or legal, so much caution and sensible behaviour/choices are required to do it that way. If you can get access to someone's dyno it's a completely different story.

In short, Nistune is great. Deep understanding of how things are done is required to make changes if you want to avoid doing the wrong things. Not for the novice, but very rewarding once you know what's going on.

Thank you for the response GTSTBoy, I understand where you're coming from. I've never paid anyone to work on my previous cars, Always done everything myself and redid the wiring harness for the conversion but this is a car I'm not completely familiar with. Maybe with time I'll learn more and get into it. I think for now I'll stick to the ECU talk and software and heed your advice regarding having the laptop next to me. I even tossed up the idea or having it log to a carputer or something of the sorts. Still undecided.

Thanks again

Might be worth looking at http://www.plxdevices.com/

They make a number of modules for various sensors and then you can connect a number of screens of various sizes, all mounted within the usual gauge sizes. Everything connects in a daisy chain fashion and then you can scroll through the sensor outputs on any screen.

There is some basic on-screen graphing of sensor output over time, but not really logging as such. The sensor modules do have outputs though that you could potentially feed into other systems for proper logging.

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