Thought maybe some of ya might be interested.

http://www.turboxs.com/

 

Damn, that's pretty slick. I've heard of a lot of the Japanese tuners using a knock sensor with headphones while tuning - you can hear the tiniest pings much better, and know when to back off much earlier.

That's a pretty decent price too. Wish they had a better pic of the unit.

Dale

 

what kind of pic do you want, ill take it tomorrow... also this unit will be able to directly interface with a gameboy advance so you can use that as your display... pretty slick ****

 

will it interface with the Datalogit ok? I could care less about a gameboy

 

I'd like to see a pic of the unit/display that's not taken apart, like the pic on the webpage . How big is the unit itself?

Since I'm guessing you have one - what do you think of the unit? Have you tried the knock sensor?

Dale

 

Just use a stethoscope! Hmm, well maybe not. Yes more pictures of the unit and dimensions would be nice. How much work involved to get it to work with a datalogit?

 

OK, after a little more digging in TurboXS's web site, I found out some more.

The unit does quite a bit. Not only wideband and knock readings, but can also monitor 2 12v inputs and 2 pulse inputs. For example, you can tap into a MAP sensor and log it, RPM, injector pulsewidth, etc. That's mighty handy!

Supposedly you can or will be able in the future to hook a Gameboy Advance to it to read data, log, etc. That's just slick. The tuner box is just a serial device - you run a terminal emulator to read it, so ANYTHING that's a terminal emulator will work, even one on a Palm PDA or something. Or you can drag an old dumb terminal in the car .

Here's a copy of the manual for the unit -
http://www.turboxs.com/_images/Tuner...Manual_1v1.pdf

Attached is a pic of the unit with a Gameboy Advance sitting on top. Decent looking unit.

This is one slick device!

Dale

 

it can output a 0-5v signal for use with engine management (datalogit)

the unit is 4.5" X 6 1/4" and 1 1/4" deep

 

I have yet to try the knock sensor on my car since its not running atm... but it works great on the wrx's, The wideband is awesome though. We bought a Motech for testing and ours has a higher resolution than it

 

I wonder how much more accurate the Bosch Knock sensor is compared to the OEM Mazda knock Sensor, if any.

 

I know the Bosch sensor is what J&S use for their Safeguard.

The TXS tuner box also lets you tune in the knock sensor - you can free-rev the engine, and dial out any noise so it only hears knock. Being able to actually listen to knock with headphones is a REAL big advantage, too.

I think a knock sensor is pretty much a knock sensor, but the black box that interprets what the mic outputs is the key.

Dale

 

Nice, not sure how useful the gameboy feature since the screen is so small and the resolution is low. Nice feature none the less. I smell group buy!

 

some better pics

 

new information about the DTEC (gameboy interface) is up on the web now.




http://www.turboxs.com/Dtec/dtec.shtml

what do you guys think about the gameboy thing?

 

Off topic:


{QUOTE:} Aim conversation with my girlfriend

Dancerxxxx: i accepted a long time ago that if the situation ever arose where you would have to choose between myself and your car, you'd pick the car
Dancerxxxx: ...sometimes i wish i had a rotary engine so you'd love ME that much... {QUOTE}


LMAO!!! sounds ohhh too familiar

 

im a little confused, this unit comes with a wideband o2 sensor for around $600?

 

it comes with a bosche wideband, and a knock sensor for 549 shipped.

 

i use one of these units on out dyno dynamics dyno's here in Australia, they work a treat, very accurate, very fast, the Knock sensor works a treat, i use it on just about every car that i tune,

we use the 0-5v output to send the afr signals straight to the dyno and all logging is done on there, there was a problem with the output being to slow but turbo xs fixed this straight away for us.

i highly reccomend this unit to anyone!

Dale

 

Here's another company making a low cost ($40) interface for the gameboy:

www.educatingmario.com

At the moment, it doesn't data log, but the designer is working on it.

I'm using it as a low cost storage scope: http://www.jandssafeguard.com/educatingmario.html

 

So if one was to buy a Microtech ecu for a 20b(Ltx-12s), this little unit could be used in place of the A/F set-up Microtech provides?

 

i have never tryed logging this unit to the microtech, i might try it when i get my car up and running again,

dale