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05-11-2009, 02:18 AM
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You can stop by my place and Ill join you in the Supra or AE86 
The Milford Track or Abel Tasman National Park are good places to canoe / walk / hike etc... with some nice roads to get there. There are some good diving spots if you are into it too. Queenstown is popular this time of year with the skiing season.
Well done on the G4 install I like that you can limit rpm if temp etc gets too hot...
The Milford Track or Abel Tasman National Park are good places to canoe / walk / hike etc... with some nice roads to get there. There are some good diving spots if you are into it too. Queenstown is popular this time of year with the skiing season.
Well done on the G4 install
I like that you can limit rpm if temp etc gets too hot...
05-11-2009, 09:17 AM
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Brian, NZ is breathtakingly magnificent. Australia is quite different in terms of the landscape but you will find some interesting parts here too. When are you coming down? I'd love to put my car on a boat and go over to NZ for a driving holiday. Empty winding roads (on camber! ) through landscapes out of 'Lord of the Rings', where you come up behind someone and they pull over to let you past! Awesome.
) through landscapes out of 'Lord of the Rings', where you come up behind someone and they pull over to let you past! Awesome.Sorry, back on the subject.
05-13-2009, 08:01 AM
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Michelle,
I find the engine management upgrade interesting, but I'm curious to know what you were specifically looking for in the upgrade compare to to stock engine management? (although I appreciate that you were already running a non-stock set-up before you installed this).
Obviously, this represents significant bucks, so presumably you were looking for a significant bang in return. And it sounds like you're satisfied. But what in particular were you looking to achieve by moving to this set-up?
Sorry if this has already been covered in an earlier thread.
I find the engine management upgrade interesting, but I'm curious to know what you were specifically looking for in the upgrade compare to to stock engine management? (although I appreciate that you were already running a non-stock set-up before you installed this).
Obviously, this represents significant bucks, so presumably you were looking for a significant bang in return. And it sounds like you're satisfied. But what in particular were you looking to achieve by moving to this set-up?
Sorry if this has already been covered in an earlier thread.
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05-13-2009, 09:19 AM
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I been in country a few time, I have family in Australia. I have been top to bottom on the East coast, no time on the West coast. Big country, hard to scratch the surface in the few weeks I get during a visit. Do they have a sea going ferry that makes a run between the two countries? I would really love to spend some time in NZ.
Sorry, back on the subject.
Sorry, back on the subject.
Next time you're over hear, drop a line. We'll catch up.
Now back to the LINK.
Oh re the LINK I'm going to use traction control, but am not sure how to set it up best. Guess it's a case of experimentation. I would advise people to at least think about doing it when they order an ECU that is supplied with a custom harness.
05-13-2009, 11:49 AM
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The G4 traction control is just for launching, it cannot do regular traction control and as far as I know it's not top priority for the Link development team.
05-13-2009, 03:02 PM
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Michelle,
I find the engine management upgrade interesting, but I'm curious to know what you were specifically looking for in the upgrade compare to to stock engine management? (although I appreciate that you were already running a non-stock set-up before you installed this).
Obviously, this represents significant bucks, so presumably you were looking for a significant bang in return. And it sounds like you're satisfied. But what in particular were you looking to achieve by moving to this set-up?
Sorry if this has already been covered in an earlier thread.
I find the engine management upgrade interesting, but I'm curious to know what you were specifically looking for in the upgrade compare to to stock engine management? (although I appreciate that you were already running a non-stock set-up before you installed this).
Obviously, this represents significant bucks, so presumably you were looking for a significant bang in return. And it sounds like you're satisfied. But what in particular were you looking to achieve by moving to this set-up?
Sorry if this has already been covered in an earlier thread.
05-13-2009, 05:37 PM
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05-13-2009, 06:11 PM
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Unfortunatly that's how it is.. let's hope they can release full traction control within this platform in future firmware updates. There's some threads about it on Link's forum (www.linkecu.com)
IMHO it's a bit misleading they call it traction control since it's mearly a sort of launch control.
IMHO it's a bit misleading they call it traction control since it's mearly a sort of launch control.
05-13-2009, 06:55 PM
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Well I wasn't so much speaking about what they say on the site. More, setting it up with sensors to the front and rear wheels and working off that. I have to dig into it a little more.
05-14-2009, 04:40 AM
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The G4 Traction Control works as a rpm limiter mapped against ground speed (0-60).
To do full traction control it would need to compare wheel speed from a driven and an undriven wheel and then adjust timing on alternating cylinders to try to reach a set slip value (around 10-20%). And that is a different kind of function than the "rpm limiter vs ground speed function".
The G4 does not have wiring inputs for several wheel speed sensors, just a vehicle speed input. I'm sure there is ways of getting more signals into the box but you still don't have the functionality in the software.
A proper stand alone traction control would include different settings to be able to set up a wet/dry switch, variable slip etc.
I like Link a lot, but in that territory I link the DTA systems a lot more...