Originally Posted by foreigneRS
will be building my own. capable of reading sensors directly like original secs monitor (plus addition lambda and egt - 8 analogue inputs in total) and getting readings from S8 over the serial connection. plus will have a built in radio controlled clock and laptimer, 5 programmable shift lights (activated by rpm signal), facility for boost control, gps input over serial connection for road speed, position, direction, height etc. plus datalogging output over serial or can bus.
will be proper bo i tell thee, and less than 200 quid fully built.
Nick, Sounds like your doing a similar thing to me
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I am about to write a microcontroller to interface a number of systmes on my car.
Essentially it will link my GPS reciever, my S8 ecu, my PDA when in car, and a dash display.
I'll have a perminant VFD dash display showing engine sensors, my GPS unit will be able to work with the display, and my PDA (for tomtom), I will also have the S8 data fed to the PDA (am writing some digi dash/datalogging software for it).
Keep me posted on how yours is doing mate!