VERY Cool MR2 carPC

**kirbycope** · 10-11-2005, 12:39 AM

Originally Posted by RoyN

wow can someone translate the info for us?

Done.
http://babelfish.altavista.com/
copy the url into the feild and select 'German to English'

**DJiK** · 10-11-2005, 02:33 AM

Okay, I'm convinced.

Originally Posted by LaroCroft

So, here are the pictures of my TFT Tacho project.

I don't know... Feels like something is missing, still...

**Supermike** · 10-11-2005, 08:10 AM

That is definitely " SUPERMEGAFETT!!!".

Reading thru some other posts (using Babblefish since I do not "spreken ze deutch"), it appears that he wrote the apps in VB and it runs on XP.

That is gotta be the coolest thing I have seen in a long time, and in one of the coolest cars of all time.

**Spaghetti** · 10-13-2005, 05:59 PM

Need to change pants

**XxAndyxX** · 10-13-2005, 08:35 PM

how come his rpms are at 1000 when no one is sitting in the seat?

**2Fast** · 10-13-2005, 08:42 PM

Cooooooooooooool, it's given me some ideas

Originally Posted by XxAndyxX

how come his rpms are at 1000 when no one is sitting in the seat?

Tickover maybe

**DJiK** · 10-13-2005, 08:50 PM

Originally Posted by XxAndyxX

how come his rpms are at 1000 when no one is sitting in the seat?

Turbocharged cars do that, especially when the engine is still cold.
Mine usually idles at 900~1150 for the first 3-5 minutes after I start the car...

What's more questionable about this, is that I have a feeling his RPM readings get rounded off every 100, or hopefully every 10 RPMs (which still isn't accurate enough IMO).

**2Fast** · 10-13-2005, 09:04 PM

Originally Posted by DJiK

Turbocharged cars do that, especially when the engine is still cold.
Mine usually idles at 900~1150 for the first 3-5 minutes after I start the car.

I second that, mine starts at about 1100 and drops after a few minutes to 800.

One thing that i noticed is that he says it's a turbo but the engine lid is that of a standard MR2, why would anyone want the crappy lid?

**Scouse Monkey** · 10-13-2005, 09:30 PM

my damn pug shows an idle of 1100 but the MOT station says its doing 850. well accurate!

2fast: maybe the euro car came with the gay engine lid.

**XxAndyxX** · 10-14-2005, 12:13 AM

i wanna know more information about that setup! i wonder if he would share all his code, im sure we could make good use of it here. hopefully he took pics of the actually instal