Dxlnt1 said:
Wild13SHO said:
Here's a couple of pictures of the gauge pod and gauges installed.
A little rich for my blood (Im cheap) but you say this plugs into the OBD port?
How?
Is it hard wired? I have wanted to add this but running a thousand different wire traces wasn't my idea of fun. Also, which gauges do you have....(oil psi, boost etc)
I am in deep consideration now!!
I believe one of his pics shows the dongle. Aeroforce gauges come in single and dual config, his is dual so one is master, one is slave. Both go to an OBDII male connector, which simply slides on the plug in the car. From that the gauges can read ANY sensor that sends data to the ECU, so you can read boost, oil pressure, coolant temp, etc. etc. Each gauge can read two parameters on the screen, so you would be getting 4 outputs at a time.
Also, each aeroforce can enter a cyclic mode, where it cycles 4 sets of 2 parameters, ie. 8 parameters per cycle. So in total if you did both in that configuration you could read 16 parameters in a matter of a minute or so.
The gauges each also have a warning light system, so you can set each to be individually triggered on different parameters or the same parameter depending on level, ie the first light for trans temp over 220, the second for trans temp over 230 or similar.
Since he has the two and one is a slave, the slave gauge will typically take up to 30 seconds longer to boot, with the first taking a maximum of 30 seconds to boot from the time the ignition is on.
No hard wiring is necessary At ALL for the aeroforce gauges. The third gauge that is in the combo, would most likely need to be wired in to something, I honestly can not tell what type of gauge it is.
TLDR: for the aerforce gauges, no hardwiring is needed. Can read up to 16 parameters in ~1 minute. Can read and clear faults as well. Warning light system also. They have three levels of lighting for the screens, and can be set to inverted mode as well to swap background and foreground color.
Here is the aeroforce web page as well.
http://www.aeroforcetech.com/products_interceptor.html
If you are completely opposed to doing any hardwiring, and end up buying this, I would be willing to work out a trade of my 2 gauge pod for the 3 gauge pod that way you can just run the aeroforce gauges.
Hope this helps.