[V8] radio display

[Buchholz, Steven]

... well, if anyone with a 5-speed wants to have a gear indicator, I'll
bet an AT cluster can be reworked to fulfill the task ... I'll gladly
trade the AT cluster in #2 for a 5-speed version ... might even be able
to change the nomenclature from PRND2L to 12345R ;-)  Setting up the
switches ... you could probably put one microswitch for 1-3-5 and one
for 2-4-R.  There are already switches in the tranny for 5th gear &
reverse, so all you'd need is one more to tell whether the selector was
in 1 or 2 and you'd have all the info you'd need to create a gear
indicator.  I must say, I've got a gear indicator on the Beemer ...
don't really find it too useful ... other than knowing whether or not
you're in top gear or neutral, the gear selection isn't that important
to me ... 

Note that it will also be a bit of a project to incorporate a box that
reads out the codes from the ECU/TCU/Instrument cluster on the fly and
puts the info up on the IC.  If you really want this sort of info it
would probably be much more efficient to simply wire up the MIL and
hardwire a connector for a Palm Pilot with ProDiag ... this might be
interesting ... you might be able to read parameters out of the data
blocks to display them ... IAT for example ...

So ... what would be useful to display?  We've already got a pretty well
stocked set of gauges ... I suppose you could get a WbO2 setup and have
it display in there ... or perhaps EGT ... maybe you can hook up one of
those ultrasonic distance measuring units and add a "range to target"
display ... ;-)

Steve B
San Jose, CA (USA)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tony and Lillie [mailto:tonyandlillie1 at earthlink.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2005 5:35 PM
> To: Coleman, David; Buchholz, Steven; v8 at audifans.com
> Subject: Re: [V8] radio display
> 
> I did one with a seperate light for each gear in a Fox when I was
younger.
> Pretty simple, really. Seperate micro-switch for each gear. Also, only
four
> forward gears. It would be a bit harder to figure how to incorperate
it into
> the display, I imagine.
> 
> Tony Hoffman
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Coleman, David" <David.Coleman at blackrock.com>
> To: <Steven.Buchholz at kla-tencor.com>; <v8 at audifans.com>
> Sent: Monday, September 19, 2005 9:26 PM
> Subject: Re: [V8] radio display
> 
> 
> > Like have the box show what gear you're in?  Thatd be pretty cool
for the
> > stick shift contingent...
> >
> >
> > --------------------------
> > David A. Coleman
> > BlackRock
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> > -----Original Message-----
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> > To: v8 at audifans.com <v8 at audifans.com>
> > Sent: Mon Sep 19 17:22:42 2005
> > Subject: Re: [V8] radio display
> >
> > ... good luck!
> >
> > When I have a chance I'm going to monitor the data sent by the radio
...
> > I fully expect it to be in some sort of bitmapped format.  What I'd
like
> > to do is to build up a box that would talk directly to the display
so
> > that it can be used for more than just the radio ...
> >
> > If you want to investigate further, I'd expect you'd more likely to
have
> > success if you stayed with Blaupunkt ...
> >
> > Steve B
> > San Jose, CA (USA)
> >>
> >> So, has anyone installed an aftermarket unit that will feed the
proper
> > data
> >> package to the dash to show the station information on the existing
> > display?
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