The Show Off Your Cockpit Thread

[Arragonis]

Originally Posted by Piwoslaw

I didn't have to pay for a Jagy just to have picnic tables

Nasty plastic ones though, not ding dong. Needs to be walnut sideboard style. Anyway, I thought the back seats had gone for weight reduction ?

[mcrews]

Nothing like the the solid feeling of rolling down the road in the quitness and luxory that is only a "Vandy"
and 26mph is nothing to snicker at!!!!!

[Jim Allen]

My Name is Jim, and I'm a Gauge-o-Haulic.

[NeilBlanchard]

Hi,

Originally Posted by bestclimb

Do those screens dim?

Yes, and no -- they are at their best at dusk and in the rain. I had to replace the passenger side camera, and it is not usable at night, because the "F-stop" makes it too sensitive and the screen shows essentially white when it is totally dark. So, I shut it off at night.

The screens are definitely the Achilles Heel of the system -- they need to be brighter in sunlight, and they need to run cooler; as they heat up, they get dimmer and dimmer. Which is not good in bright light.

[Arragonis]

Originally Posted by mcrews

Nothing like the the solid feeling of rolling down the road in the quitness and luxory that is only a "Vandy"
and 26mph is nothing to snicker at!!!!!

I agree. I have a lifelong desire for one of these :



Vanden-Plas 4-Litre R - the R bit being Rolls Royce who supplied the engine.

Unfortunately the engine in this example is about as good as the ones on the A380 being an overhead inlet - side exhaust design.

It was a stupid white elephant of a thing, very slow selling. It was so bad that sometimes people trading theirs in would find the new one had a lower chassis number than the one they were exchanging.

Originally Posted by Jim Allen

My Name is Jim, and I'm a Gauge-o-Haulic.

Do you have a key (e.g. a,b,c,d) for all those arrows ? Which one tells you the time in Paris and which one New York, or Rome ?

[Jim Allen]

Ha! No, and I don't think I'm going back to add one, however I'll indulge any mior interest by listing them.

From left to right, starting on the A-pillar, is oil pressure and coolant temp (the temp gauge on Fords reads cadapted cylinder head temp, not coolant). Just to the right is the Gryphon programmer, which has three tunes but also reads a number of engine parameters (more than the ScanGauge on my engine) as well as fuel economy. In the center are the highly dampened and inaccurate OE gauges. In the middle up top are (back to front) fuel pressure, a temp gauge (currently reading intake air temp but can be moved elsewhere) and volts, The nearer top row has exhaust backpressure and exhaust temp. Down low are trans (cooler out line) and diff temp. To answer the inevitable question, I have them for various testing purposes, not ot mention being a gauge-o-haulic.

All these gauge are run from ONE WIRE, and I could install 18 more if I chose. It's Isspro's Performax system, which runs all the sensor inputs to a processor under the hood and then codes teh signals through one wire that goes into the dash. each gauge can only read what i's chip is coded to read. They are stepper type gauges, so are supper accurate... if a little "clicky" when things get quiet.

[cfg83]

Jim -

Originally Posted by Jim Allen

My Name is Jim, and I'm a Gauge-o-Haulic.

FANTASTIC gauge setup. I like the idea of making the inside of the car look like an airplane cockpit.

If nothing else, just for fun, you know?

CarloSW2

[cfg83]

Neil -

Originally Posted by NeilBlanchard

Hi,

...

Yes, and no -- they are at their best at dusk and in the rain. I had to replace the passenger side camera, and it is not usable at night, because the "F-stop" makes it too sensitive and the screen shows essentially white when it is totally dark. So, I shut it off at night.

The screens are definitely the Achilles Heel of the system -- they need to be brighter in sunlight, and they need to run cooler; as they heat up, they get dimmer and dimmer. Which is not good in bright light.

I am guessing you already tried this, but what about a shroud over the screens? Maybe in the proportion of those ones that cover the LCD camera screens.

CarloSW2

[cfg83]

Hello -

Here you go :



CarloSW2

[Arragonis]

Originally Posted by cfg83

Hello -

Here you go :



CarloSW2

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