Using a laptop as a ecu or something?
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MikeBergy
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Uh, you need an ecu. To make your laptop into your ecu, you'd have to write a huge program that has several engine inputs, then you'd have to have software to monitor all the sensors dealing with the engine, and then you wou would have to fabricate a controller to interface the laptop and all the sensors together. I know I am missing something, but bottom line, unless you are a computer engineer, there is no way you are going to be able to do that yourself. Even if you were a computer engineer, you'd spend an butt load of money just to build something that has already been built and available at a fraction of a cost. Controlling your ecu is another story, and yes dataloggong software can monitor your engine. But it's only really needed for tuning. The only things important to monitor while driving are able to be monitored with guages, and they are much cheaper than datalogging stuff.
Hondata datalogger will give you a realtime readout of every engine sensor. You can use a hondata chipped ecu, their s200 blue box. They have a serial connection that connects to your laptop. Also you can get a realtime emulator or a romulator that allows you to make realtime changes to your fuel and ignition curves, vtec, rev limit, etc. 90% of the time I have my laptop in my car 
Originally posted by 97CTR@Nov 8 2004, 05:40 PM
Hondata datalogger will give you a realtime readout of every engine sensor. You can use a hondata chipped ecu, their s200 blue box. They have a serial connection that connects to your laptop. Also you can get a realtime emulator or a romulator that allows you to make realtime changes to your fuel and ignition curves, vtec, rev limit, etc. 90% of the time I have my laptop in my car
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Does that require a wideband O2?
AllMotorMonster
Senior Member
Could you?
Yes!
Would it be cost effective?
NO!
Just get Hondata.
Yes!
Would it be cost effective?
NO!
Just get Hondata.
Originally posted by tab+Nov 8 2004, 08:29 PM-->@Nov 8 2004, 05:40 PM
Hondata datalogger will give you a realtime readout of every engine sensor. You can use a hondata chipped ecu, their s200 blue box. They have a serial connection that connects to your laptop. Also you can get a realtime emulator or a romulator that allows you to make realtime changes to your fuel and ignition curves, vtec, rev limit, etc. 90% of the time I have my laptop in my car
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Does that require a wideband O2?
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require, no.... but you'll have no idea wtf you've changed or where you were before really.
theres only so much you can read off the ignition and fuel charts without a resultset (ie, the wideband's a/f curve)
an emulator is just used so that you don't have to take the chip out and reburn every time you make adjustments, in the end, you burn the final to a regular eeprom and leave it in the ecu. uberdata does support real time data logging, and should support real time programming on the fly very very very soon uberdata owns you i have screenshots of teh datalogging graphs, but i host through wee todd did, and they don't support this site
uberdata owns you i have screenshots of teh datalogging graphs, but i host through wee todd did, and they don't support this site