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Heya guys,

I'm just planning out my carpc at the moment. And intend on running an EPIA M10000, with a M2-ATX psu, and Roadrunner as the front end.

So far i've collected some bits and pieces like a 802.11g usb nic, bluetooth dongle, and usb-gps dongle. What i'd really like is to monitor what's going on under the hood of my R34 via the consult port.

My question is, is there a particular ODB-II to usb cable that I need or should all of them work?

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Howie

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You need one with the Nissan OBD I type (not 2).

From there, NewKleer was writing some excellent consult software, which had carputers in mind. From memory, he was going to make the number of guages customiseable (so you could put two decent sized ones on a 7" screen), and also make the program load directly into the guages, with no "connect" button like all the others have.

That way, you can turn the car on, the carputer can have a shortcut to his app in the startup, and it will show the guages on the screen straight away. You could also just have a clickable shortcut, like with winamp and whatever else you're going to run... at least when you click it, it will go straight in.

Failing this, there are various free/shareware consult programs out there. Do some searches on SAU for those.

The cable.. blazt or some site like that is where I got mine from, it's a Nissan plug to USB, no stuffing around with adapters or serial ports! $100 or less, can't remember.

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champ randy.. i found the site you were talking about

http://www.blazt.biz/products/cable.php

Thanks for clearing up the confusing with ODB-ii and ODB-i, i was assuming that since it's a post 98 car then it'd be ii obviously that assumption is wrong.

Cheers!

ish Proficient

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COOl .. I am setting up a permenent lappy station for my car Aswell.

Not Sure if i am going to go dedicated PC or lappy station!

Have you guys seen any mounting systems for Laptops

or ultra slim fold away LCD's that i could passenger Swivel dash mount?

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From there, Mearcat was writing some excellent consult software, which had carputers in mind. From memory, he was going to make the number of guages customiseable (so you could put two decent sized ones on a 7" screen), and also make the program load directly into the guages, with no "connect" button like all the others have.

wow, that sounds exactly like the software ive made/making! *cough*

next update to ecutalk should have the auto start option like the ppc version has

and yes, R34 is consult 1, not obd

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