Down and out in 2008

[Steve C]

Hi

Phillips have many better bulbs that can be used and still keep the standard wiring etc. http://www.lighting.philips.com.au/v...2_1&id=1053472

Steve

[evilC]

Steve,

Using your link, these are the ones I was thinking of: http://www.lighting.philips.com.au/v...p=car_&vp=more light&va=more light

Clive

[Steve C]

Hi Clive

I have something similar in my daily 1303, they are very good and white, and only need standard wiring.

I might also look into getting my low beams to stay on when on high beam, doing this manually with the dipper switch gives a very good light pattern.

Steve

[Wally]

Awesome! Can't wait to see the final product of your efforts!

[NO_H2O]

Very cool stuff. Touch screen display will be sweet.

[ricola]

Do you have a plan on how you are going to do that left brake master cylinder pushrod? Looks like it will get sandwiched in with the body gasket...

[al_kaholik]

I looked at this years ago and everyone told me I was mad it was not necessary and it was completely OTT...







Its still on the back burner - my dad had it in his Passat GL5 for a bit

[70Turbobug]

NICE Sandeep!! I love Gadgets like that! I had basically the same idea but I gave it up.The reasons for me were: during the day when the sun hits the display,you can hardly read anything.In that regard I am a bit spoiled because the screens that aircraft use (at least Airbus) illuminate automatically brighter when the sun hits it, so you can see all the data on the screen.At night a normal screen is quite distracting (to me) because it´s usally a little too bright and if there is movement on the screen away from your immediate view of sight, I tend to always look over to it.Still,I love to see stuff like that and all the tech involved! Looking better everyday Sandeep!

[Sandeep]

Originally Posted by 70Turbobug

NICE Sandeep!! ... At night a normal screen is quite distracting (to me) because it´s usally a little too bright and if there is movement on the screen away from your immediate view of sight, I tend to always look over to it ...

Good point Mark. Perhaps I'll write some code to flash a small LED in the tach or somewhere on the dash to indicate if any of the gauge data is reading high. That way, I can have a quick look at the screen and see what the #$%% is causing the issue

Sandeep

[al_kaholik]

Modern screens are daylight visible and self adjusting to ambient lighting or you can use time of day to change the gamma settings. Things have come a long way since I was looking at this even a few years back. With solid state drives also now becoming affordable and screen technology having advanced its much easier. You could even slap a small tablet PC into the dash and take it away with you. That would run all the tuning software and anythign else you wanted it to do

[70Turbobug]

You could even slap a small tablet PC into the dash and take it away with you.

Yeah that would be cool,although space is pretty limited on a bug dash.There is a lot of really cool stuff nowadays,though.I really like to see what these freaks are doing.

[al_kaholik]

These freaks are dragging you lot kicking and screaming into the 21st century!

[Sandeep]

Thanks Guys.

Originally Posted by ricola

Do you have a plan on how you are going to do that left brake master cylinder pushrod? Looks like it will get sandwiched in with the body gasket...

2 heads are better than one Thanks for that, didn't even see the issue. I will fab something up to take care of it.

Originally Posted by al_kaholik

These freaks are dragging you lot kicking and screaming into the 21st century!

Right On !!

Al ... that is a nicely done installation. I'll be using a pico ITX box with an AVR microcontroller intercepting the data feed from the DTA S60 Pro, and then passing on to the ITX box that runs the software to make my touchscreen look pretty. I want to incorporate a GPS feed because of all of the driving I will (eventually) be doing.

The smaller the interface box the better, because the car does not really have an interior (2 seats, steering wheel and shifter )

Sandeep

[70Turbobug]

If you can program that, you could also program a light sensitive sensor that dims when it's dark or when sun light hits it, it brightens.It makes life much easier if you have a "glass ****pit" i.e. a display unit for all your engine data etc.

[Sandeep]

The touchscreen does that automatically, light sensitive screen that reacts to the ambient light around it.

Working towards having this pig on the road for 2012

Sandeep