New I.C.E. Toy

mr-charisma · Post by **mr-charisma** » Fri Apr 17, 2009 12:51 am

Just got this delivered a couple of days ago

Now just need to get the GPS & built in Phone working & get it hooked up to the Car Entertainment system

'tis an awesome little device ... should be pretty sweet when it's set up

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Processor and Chipset IntelÂ® Processor A110, 800 MHz

Operating System Windows VistaÂ® Business

Memory RAM: 1GB DDR2 microDIMM RAM for Vista + 64 MB for SnapVUEâ„¢

ROM: 128 MB for SnapVUEâ„¢

Hard Disk 1.8-inch 40 GB or 60 GB hard disk (manufacturer's option)

Dimensions 207 mm (L) X 129 mm (W) X 25 mm (T)

Weight 800g with battery

Display 7-inch, 800 X 480 TFT-LCD display with adjustable screen angle and touch-sensitive screen

Network HSDPA/UMTS: Tri-band 850, 1900, 2100 MHz

HSDPA: Up to 3.6Mbps for download and 384kbps for upload UMTS: Up to 384kbps for download and upload

GSM/GPRS/EDGE: Quad-band 850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz (The device will operate on frequencies available from the cellular network)

Keyboard Slide-out QWERTY keyboard

Mouse Control Left/right mouse buttons and microPad

Wireless Connections BluetoothÂ® 2.0 Wi-FiÂ®. IEEE 802.11 b/g

I/O Ports 1 USB 2.0, VGA out, and 3.5mm stereo audio out with microphone

Card Slots 1.8/3V USIM/SIM card slot

SDIO slot with hotswap functionality

Security Fingerprint sensor

Web Camera Color CMOS VGA camera for videoconferencing

Audio Built-in microphone and dual speakers

Battery 2700 mAh rechargeable Lithium-ion polymer battery

VistaÂ® operating time: Up to 2 hours

SnapVUEâ„¢ standby time (push e-mail enabled): Up to 53 hours

SnapVUEâ„¢ standby time (push e-mail disabled): Up to 10 days

AC Adapter Voltage range/frequency: 90 ~ 265V AC, 47/63Hz

DC output: 12Vdc, 3A max.

koolio1234 · Post by **koolio1234** » Fri Apr 17, 2009 3:39 am

Thats quite a nice little toy there, try not to surf the web while driving though

FTEvolution · Post by **FTEvolution** » Fri Apr 17, 2009 8:10 am

Was just telling the missus on Sunday how awesome it would be to have Google maps in the car...

Would be a kick ass tool to tune your ECU too... yahoo!

mr-charisma · Post by **mr-charisma** » Fri Apr 17, 2009 12:47 pm

FTEvolution wrote:Was just telling the missus on Sunday how awesome it would be to have Google maps in the car...

Would be a kick ass tool to tune your ECU too... yahoo!

Google maps would be cool, but this has GPS on the in built phone device, just need to hack the Phone ROM to get the GPS & Voice functionality working thought from what I can tell..

Do you have any info or links on how I could hook it into the ECU?
I probably won't be attempting any tuning so that I don't screw things up there, but it would be awesome if I could get a readout of things like, speed, oil / engine bay temperatures, revs & have it display on the screen..

like;
http://www.qnx.com/products/qnxcar/vide ... layer.html

Been looking into getting one of these too though;

Post by **Bennoz** » Fri Apr 17, 2009 12:57 pm

Dont you have some spark plugs you should be buying?

mr-charisma · Post by **mr-charisma** » Fri Apr 17, 2009 1:45 pm

Bennoz wrote:Dont you have some spark plugs you should be buying?

Yep, will get them as soon as I know which ones

FTEvolution · Post by **FTEvolution** » Fri Apr 17, 2009 3:31 pm

What ECU you running mate? Most have off the shelf laptop software and datalogging for PC. Most others have some sort of homebrew software too.

Cassf88 · Post by **Cassf88** » Fri Apr 17, 2009 4:59 pm

quick question, the first two pics are of an HTC n the 3rd is of a sumsung, which phone did u get?

mr-charisma · Post by **mr-charisma** » Fri Apr 17, 2009 7:07 pm

Cassf88 wrote:quick question, the first two pics are of an HTC n the 3rd is of a sumsung, which phone did you get?

I got the HTC .. the 3rd pics was just for the car mount..

'tis not a phone though, 'tis a 7" Touch Screen Tablet PC running Vista (Soon to be upgraded to XP)

It also has a built in phone, so you can switch between Vista & the phone at the click of a button..

Eltnot · Post by **Eltnot** » Fri Apr 17, 2009 7:15 pm

Just make sure all of the components have Windows XP drivers though. A lot of laptops don't tend to have drivers written for older OS's.

I don't know why they've put Vista on that though, it doesn't have enough grunt to run it smoothly. XP will make it run faster, but have you also considered a linux OS?

Regardless, it should be a fun toy.

mr-charisma · Post by **mr-charisma** » Sat Apr 18, 2009 1:03 am

Eltnot wrote:Just make sure all of the components have Windows XP drivers though. A lot of laptops don't tend to have drivers written for older OS's.

I don't know why they've put Vista on that though, it doesn't have enough grunt to run it smoothly. XP will make it run faster, but have you also considered a linux OS?

Regardless, it should be a fun toy.

Quite true .. I'm going out to pick up a new SSD Hard Drive tomorrow 64Gb Micro SSD )1.8" so I'll be dual booting Ubuntu + XP .. will be interesting to see how much of the hardware is compatible

mr-charisma · Post by **mr-charisma** » Sat Apr 18, 2009 2:43 am

FTEvolution wrote:What ECU you running mate? Most have off the shelf laptop software and datalogging for PC. Most others have some sort of homebrew software too.

Cheers, just downloaded the Microtech Software .. The Shift doesn't have an RS232 port .. so I'll need an RS232 > USB adaptor for it (hopefully it'll work)

This software should be fun to play around with..

Does the job, but the GUI could use some 'Flash' enhancements though .. looks a bit too 'Windows 3.1" for my liking..

Post by **Bennoz** » Sat Apr 18, 2009 8:31 am

mr-charisma wrote:
Bennoz wrote:Dont you have some spark plugs you should be buying?
Yep, will get them as soon as I know which ones

NGK Platinum PFR6J-11 (2743)

koolio1234 · Post by **koolio1234** » Sat Apr 18, 2009 4:44 pm

Bennoz wrote:
mr-charisma wrote:
Bennoz wrote:Dont you have some spark plugs you should be buying?
Yep, will get them as soon as I know which ones
NGK Platinum PFR6J-11 (2743)

I thought platinum tipped weren't good enough for his turbo setup?

mr-charisma · Post by **mr-charisma** » Sat Apr 18, 2009 5:00 pm

Thanks Ben .. I'll go with these & note how they go over the life of the plug.. and what the last ones were that were used & how long they lasted..

Has your workshop mentioned anything about having to use a different gap size since they're making a lot more power than the engine is supposed to?

mr-charisma · Post by **mr-charisma** » Sat Apr 18, 2009 7:17 pm

Bennoz wrote:
mr-charisma wrote:
Bennoz wrote:Dont you have some spark plugs you should be buying?
Yep, will get them as soon as I know which ones
NGK Platinum PFR6J-11 (2743)

Looked these up in the book while I was there & they've got the plugs for a 6a13 VR4 Galant listed as 'BP6ES-11' .. the PFR6J-11's were listed as being for the HJ Galant 6a12 ..

The NGK website says that the recommended plugs are the PFR6J-11 though..

nvr2low · Post by **nvr2low** » Sat Apr 18, 2009 10:01 pm

I put iriduims in my 6a13 they were part number bkr6eix
That is what I used

Post by **Bennoz** » Sun Apr 19, 2009 9:04 am

Well, thats whats printed on the box of the plug that we used to make to 227kws.

No one ever plays with gaps these days.

mr-charisma · Post by **mr-charisma** » Sun Apr 19, 2009 11:16 pm

Gonna get the PFR plugs ..

I don't even think NGK know what they're doing, the website is all over the place.. but from what I can gather, the correct plugs are are the PFR6J-11's - Listed for a 'Japanese Import' 2.5L 6a13 Galant

The other plug type seem to be for Galants originally sold in Aus (apparently)

Post by **Bennoz** » Mon Apr 20, 2009 9:38 am

mr-charisma wrote:The other plug type seem to be for Galants originally sold in Aus (apparently)

Aka, the 6A12 non mivec GR motor