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miniswordsman

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Pueblo, Colorado, USA

16th Jun, 2010 at 04:25:43pm

Hi All,

I'm looking at this dash:

http://www.dakotadigital.com/index.cfm/pag...prod/prd371.htm

I need to know what nut the speedo housing is that holds the pin? Does anyone know off the top of there head?

-James

alpa

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Grenoble, France

17th Jun, 2010 at 09:00:59pm

May be it's a bit expensive for the people hanging around there LOL.

Edited by alpa on 17th Jun, 2010.

std 998 A+, g295, MD266, RHF4, 109hp @0.8bar/5400rpm

jbelanger

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Montreal, Canada

17th Jun, 2010 at 10:34:07pm

If you're thinking about getting a MegaSquirt, that may not be the best choice depending on how you need to connect the sensors to get the display working. Sharing the sensors between the MS and dash may not be the most accurate and it would be better to get the digital data from the MS to have a display of the same data that is used for ignition and fueling.

But unfortunately I don't have any recommendation. I know there are solutions but I haven't looked into it. The best would be to search on the msextra forum.

Jean

http://www.jbperf.com/

miniswordsman

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Pueblo, Colorado, USA

17th Jun, 2010 at 11:05:20pm

I'll have to post up there. Any other digital recommendations? And just off the top of my head, I think the only one that would share is the tacho? Maybe you saw something I didn't?

-James

jbelanger

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Montreal, Canada

18th Jun, 2010 at 12:59:19am

Actually, I saw water temp and that just raised a flag. But now that you mention it and after having another look, that would seem to be the only one since you'd actually use the tacho output from the MS to feed this digital dash.

So it probably would be ok because there is a way to share this sensor and it's also not a critical sensor for the MS in that once the engine is warm, it doesn't do a whole lot. So even if there is a small discrepancy between the 2 values, it shouldn't be a big deal.

Jean

http://www.jbperf.com/

miniswordsman

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Pueblo, Colorado, USA

18th Jun, 2010 at 02:44:26am

You're talking the engine temp right? Refresh me, what's the MS use the temp for? And like you said, tacho could be pulled of of the ms, since you have to have the tacho working for ms to work right anyway...


jbelanger

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Montreal, Canada

18th Jun, 2010 at 02:58:51am

The engine temp is used for warm up enrichment. There are also a few other options for over temp protection but the value is not used for fueling computations or ignition timing under normal operation.

Jean

http://www.jbperf.com/

miniswordsman

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Pueblo, Colorado, USA

18th Jun, 2010 at 02:58:51pm

ah. I see. I imagine that might be something else that could be run through the megasquirt easily as well. Just nuts and bolts, or in this case wires and sensors...

-James

miniswordsman

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Pueblo, Colorado, USA

18th Jun, 2010 at 02:59:05pm

Thanks for your input Jean, you're a big help.
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