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

[Kirby Smith]

1 kg/cm^2 is very close to a bar.  Perhaps even within the error of the
sensor.

kirby


mlp5 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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