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Originally Posted by hamill
Why did I read the initial post thinking....this dude's running an OBD2 connection through a laptop.
EDIT: I've had mine hooked up a few times....to someone who doesn't know what it is, I can tell them I can control the AC with it  |
yes same here, so my apologies to the professor. I also looked into the megasquirt many years ago [actually my friend used it on a homebuilt mini-truck type contraption he built for his mechanical engineering senior design project], so I have light exposure to it... but you've got me rereading up on this. ok, its quite a bit more powerful than I was lead to beleive.
but it boils down to you are entering a world of pain trying to implement the car with a stand alone solution such as that. For one you'll never be able to pass any emissions tests if you implement this.... so that rules out the option for just about all of us on this board. Second, I can easily see dropping a thousand hours or so just to get the motor running in limp mode. 3rd, attempting this and your completely on your own, not too many people are going to be able to assist you on this and I dont imagine my regular tuner is going to be able to assist me.
I could definitely see attempting this for fun, but there is no practical reason or any gain in doing so.