[s-cars] s4/s6 gauge cluster? or ... what it must feel like to be the only guy with a dull kitchen knife at a gun fight

[Joseph Pizzimenti]

They both appear to do the same thing a little bit
differently, but I do like the simpler user interface
of the HKS unit.  Set max boost and the dials act as a
percentage of that value.

Before plunking the dough on the HKS unit, I did try
the Apexi and developed a passionate hatred for its
user interface.  As long as it's working for you
without any crazy spikes, I say keep it.

Internet rumor mill suggests that the stepper motor in
the HKS unit is "better" than the solenoid in the
Apexi, but if either works, screw it.

Joey blingbling

--- mlp5 <mlped at qwest.net> wrote:
> But Joe, why would I want an HKS EVC when I already
> have an Apex'i AVC-R?
> What are you thinking?  Trade four multifunction,
> but otherwise
> incomprehensible buttons for two simple dials?
> 
> As far as I know, one CAN if one is so inclined, use
> the AVC-R display not
> only as a boost gauge, but as a tach
> (simultaneously) &/or at least two or
> three other functions, the exact nature or purpose
> of which escape me at the
> moment, but include in addition to rpm &
> boost/vacuum (I think) (c) vehicle
> speed; (d) throttle position; (e) solenoid valve
> duty cycle; and (f)
> injector duty cycle.  According to the instruction
> manual, you can have
> anything from 1 item to up to 4 of the six on
> display at any one time.  If
> you like, you can ask the damn thing to data log the
> information for up to a
> max of @ 1 minutes worth (1 channel of data) to a
> minimum of 15 seconds (if
> you're logging 4 channels.)  You can "freeze" data
> on screen, if not what's
> happening outside the car whilst you go careening
> down the road.  Hell, with
> this thing who has time to look where one is going.
> 
> Boost however, is only displayable as "kg/cm^2"
> which, at least to me, seems
> to be a some what obscure scale of measurement for
> US based cars ~ not BAR,
> and not PSI, neither fish, nor fowl.  Joe it's just
> not as exciting to say
> "Wow, look at that!  The car is making 1.32 Kg/cm^2"
>  Somehow it doesn't
> trip of the tongue quite a facile as "Hey, baby ever
> see a turbo push a car
> at 19 psi?"  Vacuum however comes up in "mm/hg" very
> impressive to say,
> "Look, this thing is pulling more vacuum than a hot
> date with Madonna, 240
> mm/hg!"  Much sexier that "
> 
> The readouts are in breath taking LED blue, either
> in digital form (with
> peak hold), or digital simulation of analog form
> (pretty useless IMO, but it
> must be significant to the ricers since someone went
> through the trouble to
> program this), or as a bar or line graph.  This
> thing has more functions
> than a $1,000 Swiss Army knife or James Bond's
> Rolex.  And if program "A"
> isn't just right, somehow one can switch to program
> "B" or in case of a 2nd
> Al-Qaeda attack on New York, there is always
> "scramble" mode.  
> 
> There are so many functions in fact, I'm willing to
> bet that I have at least
> twice the functionality, at the cost of 1/2,
> probably less, the utility of
> any HKS EVC-V!  But hey ... if what you are looking
> to do is blow some one
> away with display fireworks, this things got them. 
> It's even got a "ghost"
> mode, what ever that is.
> 
> FWIW, I have been trying to get ride of the damn
> thing and turn control of
> everything back to the Bosch Motronic ECU ever since
> it got put in the car.
> 
> mike "less is looking a lot like more" pederson
> 
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Joseph Pizzimenti [mailto:pizzoman at yahoo.com]
> 
> >Analman,
> >Just get yourself a nice little HKS EVC V boost
> >controller,
> 
> 


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