vafc owners - some shit i did
 

since these fuckheads that live in my apartments wont stop breaking into my car, and i have to park so far away that i cannot watch it, i dont keep anything valuable in my ride. that includes my vafc, which you see i have modified...

http://members.cox.net/quickcrx702/vafc.jpg

i had some cat5 laying around and got the idea cuz im a network geek. i figured i could make my vafc a "quick release" by using some cat5 cable soldered to the vafc wiring. on the other end i used rj45 jacks which i wired the same way as the cat5. this way, when i want to go somewhere, just plug it in. when i park my car at home, just release it - now these dickheads cant steal it anymore! ;D i have had this setup running successfully for a while, but i haven't had time to take pics until recently.

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---- do your ecu while ur at it :P

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thats a pretty cool idea, how about a writeup ;)

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nice job. That is a very cool idea. The AFC doesn't loose any settings when you pull it though??, I have zero first hand experience with them, so that may be a dumb question.

P.S. - You are a network geek. Nice job though.

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pretty cool, but a real feul management would be better ;)

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it doesn't lose any settings, there is a battery inside of it or someshit that keeps them. i guess i could do a writeup if you guys want.

i plan on chipping my spare pm6 when i get more time. actually, i have some ideas involving turboedit, linux, and wine(windows emulator for linux so that i can run turboedit). i plan on making a linux thin client based on knoppix linux so that i can drive around tuning my car, while wardriving at the same time, lol. this way, i dont have to worry about a hard drive getting fucked up, and i can put one of my old desktop pc's to use. im going to use linux instead of windows because i dont need a hard drive, and i want as few processes running as possible. maybe the only thing ill have will be just fluxbox or some REALLY basic gui, and init(startup) scripts for turboedit and kismet. i guess ill rig up a power inverter to go from 12 to 120 volts, and buy a real cheapie lcd display. can you guys say digital display for everything? i know, i could just use my laptop... but i wanna do it the hmt ghetto genius way. i also wanna use a shitty desktop so that i can leave it in the car all the time, and have datalogging always. oh yeah, im going to find or rig up a really small case so that this doesn't take up much room in the trunk. ill have more details on this for you guys when i actually get around to doing it.

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lol, i was actually thinking about it :P , but then i decided that a starter killswitch, fuelpump killswitch, and this mod would suffice. if somebody wanted to steal my ride they would have to saw through my steering wheel(got the club), find and enable at least the fuelpump killswitch, push start or find the starter killswitch, rewire the vafc connections to my ecu(had to cut for the vafc), and bring some 240cc injectors and swap them out(otherwise the motor would flood at startup). either that or a chipped ecu to scale down 450's in addition to rewiring, finding the killswitches, and sawing through my steering wheel.

oh yeah, i have two extra alarm horns mounted INSIDE of my car and hidden to give any thief a ------- headache while they disable my alarm and find the killswitches.

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Nice Job. i wouldve never though of anything like that.

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wow, that sounds pretty cool. i would love to see that when you finish it

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Pretty cool idea

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That's pretty cool, how does the wires in the VAFC compare to that of the 6 wires in the RJ-45? And you know you should have used Cat 6E ;)

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damn! that sounds ridiculous but very cool

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there is no battery in there, its uses EPROM (sp) just like your chipped ecu does. its saved in its "memory" until you re initialize it.


nice job, a write up would be nice.

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Isn't there already a plug like that on the vafc harness? Mine came with one...

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This officially makes you a network nerd. Wardriving and tunning at once

It is like a secret puzzle to start your car. Insert the VAFC, flip a half dozen hidden switches. I guess it keeps you from driving if you are too drunk, the rest of us just have an ignition to figure out if we are drunk.

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nice job man, I like that. hmmm... I pulled out my ecu before and the car still got stolen, maybe it's time to make some new plugs that only my harness can plug into.

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thast the same thing i was thinking while reading this :-\

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yeah, it does come with one. but i dont really like it. it doesnt "slide" very well. you know, when clipping together it doesn't clip smoothly like the cat5-->rj45. at least mine doesn't. when i try and unclip it, it feels really hard to pull and i feel like i am going to rip the wires. that, and also the fact that you cant mount the clip that came with the vafc like you can the rj45 jacks. i guess ill take more pictures so that you can see what i am talking about, and i will include them in the writup.

oh yeah, rj45 connectors use 8 wires(wo/o/wg/b/wb/g/wbr/br). the vafc wiring, and normal cat5 wiring for that matter, do not even compare to cat6. cat6 wiring, although the same thickness as cat5 is HARD AS ----- at least when you are untwisting it to make a cable or terminate onto a punchdown block. it also takes both of my hands to crimp that ----(i dont have those bout it ass ratcheting crimpers). cat6 is some hardcore ----.

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Thats cool but new ones usually come with a quick connect
:-\.

I used to do that with my Field.It had a quick connect right behind the unit.The car wont run without it.As soon as the car is turned on and it cant read the MAP sensor it will shut off.

The VAFC will not loose the setting because the way it works is that the setting are pushed in/out electronicaly.That means that it uses power to change the settings.It doesnt have a battery inside :P.Just a memory. ;)

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ditto

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That's pretty sick man. Me and 4 buddies of mine from school had to re-network an entire room (23 computers, 3 servers, 3 printers) with Cat6, pimp stuff. Too bad we ran out of money and now cant get new NIC's to take advantage of the speeds ::)