What?
What did he do?


TURK
:confused: :confused:

I meant you!:3DSMILE:

,,,maybe mount a small generator on the rear bumper (since the trunk is full of "servers")..........

einrE

LOL @ Jamo
 

The system requirements I mentioned are likely what is required to PROGRAM the commander 950 module, Turk :JEKYLHYDE

It's about the size of a standard computer module from a modern auto, but much larger than some gashole's brains :JEKYLHYDE :LOL:

Uh OK!!

TURK

Is this you?

TURK

Um, no
 

Here I am :

Turk - wouldn't there be a way to link the car's trunk-mounted server via a satellite link to the internet, then you could sit at home and watch it. A bit like the car-to-pits communications they have in F1, and probably Indycars as well.
All sorts of sensors could be linked up, even humidity sensors in the seats so that you know when you reallly got it hooked up.

Do you know anyone with a satellite dish system that might work?

You and Jamo are making fun of this and me. I was trying to be helpful. You and I have carburators. These guys are running EFI and can use all the computing power they can get. True, a network in a Cobra maybe a little over the top but, wouldn't you rather have a small server in the trunk than a IBM Laptop in the cockpit? It is safer too.

This way when he has a technician or someone like Wayne Pressley come by to help him to set up his system, all they have to do is get some IP numbers and log on as a guest, and BINGO they are on line.

What is this about this you guys find amusing?

The server can provide a far more capable GPS navigation system down the road and can easily be integrated through an RS232 interface.

Sure it will compromise some trunk space, but people have given up trunk space in the past for a Nitrous bottle etc.

TURK

And then U2 can fly over and zap the whole damn thing...:LOL:

Jamo - you are not thinking this through, you must have a luddite streak in you.

Instead of fiddling with a laptop whilst aquiring data and trying to drive at the same time, sending it up a satellite link to log it on a home PC via the internet would be much safer.
It is much the same thing as driving and using a mobile phone at the same time, obviously a very bad idea.

I reckon there is some mileage in this remote data-logging aspect.
Probably better mileage than I get, anyway.

Turk - I think you may find the RS232 interface has insufficient bandwith for these purposes, maybe USB2 might be the answer.
And we might have to go mil-spec on the on-board server, that might be sufficiently hardened against vibration and stray magnetic fields from the ICE.

Lets see where we go with this.

Guys (I think - ?????)
Since this thread was originally meant for me (although who cares about that anymore ???), maybe I should weigh in.
I like the idea of trailing along a portable, mobile generator. I should acquire one of those trailers that Iraq has to mobilize their chemical weapons labs (since it already has a generator on it - although maybe 220v - but I could probably get around that), and convert it to having a mobile satellite uplink system. Then I could load the data from my 1996 Pentium II-233 Windows 95 laptop to the system on the trailer to be uplinked, downlinked and crosslinked (oh, that's right, that's biotech talk), to my home computer. Then, when I SAFELY get home, I can put the data on a floppy, put the floppy back in my laptop, look at what the data tells me (cause I haven't a clue what it means!!!), then make the changes on the program, take it back out to the car and load the new program into the ECU.

I think it would be a gas (hole) seeing a Cobra pulling a 52 ft. trailer behind it, with a big, ol' antennae on top of the trailer (that is until I go under the first underpass I come to) - that would be an even bigger gas.

Oh, but maybe I can do all of the data logging on my computer while driving (and stopping at a spot out of the traffic - which I have a spot that has virtually no traffic to do my runs - to save the data log), and just bring it hope for analysis. TOO SIMPLE, right???? (But that's what I do do).

Maybe us EFI Cobra guys can do the patriotic thing and offer to buy up all of Iraq's mobile chemical labs to do our data logging with, then we won't have to go to war with Iraq and the stock market can stop waiting for the war (that wouldn't be) and start making us some money again. HEY, THAT'S THE MOST FANTASTIC IDEA I HAVE EVER HAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Who is with me???

(Maybe us EFI Cobra guys - any gals out there ??? - can even have our own Forum some day! WOWWWWW!)

Regards,
Frank
:JEKYLHYDE

Frank,
Welldone!

I knew someone would GET IT!

TURK

It makes one feel all warm inside to see the breadth of original thinking that can be witnessed here at CC most days.

Well done Frank. My hat, as well as Turk's, is tipped in admiration .
BTW - the concept of pulling a large trailer has some additional benefits - being able to hold wide throttle openings for data acquisition for longer, since road speed would not increase!
Breath-takingly simple - all the best ideas are.