Hey Guys, Thought of another alternative for my custom dash project. As OBD2 upgrade is going to be waayyy to expensive, I've decided to try and research using the current setup to make the in-car pc display a speedo,tacho and other gauges on a 7" touch screen display in place of the current gauges. Does anyone know if there's any software available to allow the ALDL data to be used to run custom/skinnable gauges on the pc? And will the response time be fast enough to be practical for the application? This is on a 165ECM.

Have you looked at Tuner Pro ?

tuner pro won't do it, maybe RT, I'll have a look into it, just gotta purchase an ALDL cable.

I've used RT for some time, 'till I bought the EBL anyway. If Tuner Pro won't then Scanner Pro certainly will. You'll need the ALDL cable either way, anyway.

what's EBL?
What I really need is to run a standalone app, or even a seperate window with the gauges displayed on that. So I can have my main monitor running windows and whatever else i need on it, and the gauges on a separate monitor dedicated just to the gauge display.
And I need to be able to customise the colours, size etc so that it doesn't look like a commodore 64 game.
That why I originally wanted the OBD2 because there's an app out there specifically for making your own gauge display.

See http://dynamicefi.com
It has it's own high speed display coded into the software that comes with, but the EBL itself is a replacement ECM for the older C3 TBI stuff.

Scanner Pro by the same folks that bring you Tuner Pro. Works with anything Tuner Pro RT works with, cause it can use the same definition files for the data stream, but the display is customized to whatever you make it.

I'm acutally looking into to developing a standalone setup for obd1. This is what I did for my Grand Prix GTP. You can select any OBD2 parameters to show on the screen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkVxzM0YXT8

oh neat, thats how the zr1's on the corvettes are iirc, very cool. Any chance of instructions of how you set this up? I might consider looking into doing that as well for some fun on the side.

Well, it was a senior design project for my ece degree, so it's not quite as easy as ploping a few components down and turning it on

I am looking to build a display that you can stick in the dash or console with the info and possibly selling it, so stay tuned.

i'll buy one.
And be more than happy to be a beta tester

That is awesome.

It will take some hardware but it can be done
http://www.mp3car.com/vbulletin/fusi...s-project.html

yeah, i want to do a touch screen with ebl. Should not be to hard to read the datastream, which is CANII i think. Now just need software to make gauges. Would love to be able to connect some relays and start car from touch screen as well.