VAFC project finished. mounted in the way everyone said no way! 56k sucks ----.
04-18-2004, 05:12 AM
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VAFC project finished. mounted in the way everyone said no way! 56k sucks ----.
Ok here it is, pictures and what not. i did this to spite all of you that thought it was "impossable" to do. well there it is, its done. (well mostly lol) and it works great!
This is what it looks like without most the gauges in there. A LOT of cutting was invloved to get the damn idiot lights out of there. all the lights that i need are wired to LED's (oil and check engine and bat.) and are diffrent colors. here in colorado we dont have to worry aobut hte engine light, it is not a failing componet of e-tests. :P
Now with all the gauges in the cluster there is about 1/2mm of space to move the board around. so its prety much there and its mostly centered, im not worried about it :P
my first thought was to take the buttons off hte front of the board, use eathernet wire and solder it to the pads and then use the a male connector on the back ofthe cluster and a female connector on the other end that goes to the buttons, well that dident work do great so with the help of Tekphobia he was able to find what the bottons positive term on the CN1 between the 2 boards of the VAFC and use them as the buttons positive, the negitive was just a wire from the button board to the negitive (black wire) of the AFC on its way to the ECU. This is much cleaner by far.
Its cabeling, all eathernet female ends and you can see a shot of the button board.
This is a shot of the buttons installed (well till i get some button covers). The buttons came from some old mice i had laying around and work perfect! i love being able to hold down a button and scroll threw the menus VS hitting it 300 times to get where i want.
Sorry for the glare but my camera sucks ***. there it is in the car and WORKING!!. the mouse buttons do the trick and really make it easy to navigate in the VAFC. oh BTW i did have to take the ---- out of the trip deal. just too much ---- taking up too much room and taking space :P
all in all it was alot of work and took time to do it but to me it was well worth it. I mean who else has done this?
BTW here is the first post on this:
https://www.homemadeturbo.com/forum/...0558#msg160558
This is what it looks like without most the gauges in there. A LOT of cutting was invloved to get the damn idiot lights out of there. all the lights that i need are wired to LED's (oil and check engine and bat.) and are diffrent colors. here in colorado we dont have to worry aobut hte engine light, it is not a failing componet of e-tests. :P
Now with all the gauges in the cluster there is about 1/2mm of space to move the board around. so its prety much there and its mostly centered, im not worried about it :P
my first thought was to take the buttons off hte front of the board, use eathernet wire and solder it to the pads and then use the a male connector on the back ofthe cluster and a female connector on the other end that goes to the buttons, well that dident work do great so with the help of Tekphobia he was able to find what the bottons positive term on the CN1 between the 2 boards of the VAFC and use them as the buttons positive, the negitive was just a wire from the button board to the negitive (black wire) of the AFC on its way to the ECU. This is much cleaner by far.
Its cabeling, all eathernet female ends and you can see a shot of the button board.
This is a shot of the buttons installed (well till i get some button covers). The buttons came from some old mice i had laying around and work perfect! i love being able to hold down a button and scroll threw the menus VS hitting it 300 times to get where i want.
Sorry for the glare but my camera sucks ***. there it is in the car and WORKING!!. the mouse buttons do the trick and really make it easy to navigate in the VAFC. oh BTW i did have to take the ---- out of the trip deal. just too much ---- taking up too much room and taking space :P
all in all it was alot of work and took time to do it but to me it was well worth it. I mean who else has done this?
BTW here is the first post on this:
https://www.homemadeturbo.com/forum/...0558#msg160558
04-18-2004, 05:17 AM
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Re:VAFC project finished. mounted in the way everyone said no way! 56k sucks sh
I am on turboedit ATM the PM6 is all chipped and all, just dont have anything to activate my VTEC so i had this laying around lol.. and its centered enough for me lol
04-18-2004, 12:36 PM
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Re:VAFC project finished. mounted in the way everyone said no way! 56k sucks sh
Haha, you crazy bastard. At least it's not mounted on the top of your dash for every thief who walks by to take a look at. 
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