This is my Opel Astra turbo
Engine is a modified C20LET motor with a T3/T4 Turbo & NOS. ECU - Haltech linked to my custom display computer via serial cable. I snooped in on the coms lines to get the serial protocol and then wrote the software to display the Haltech vital parameters on the LCD display.
The Nos control panel is behind the handbrake.
From the display computer I can control the vitals... Map,Boost,Charge Cooler, Water Injection,Launch control etc.
The maintenance box is used for dyno sesions and can be taken out of the vehicle to the engine bay.
New engine in the waiting. M3 TB with stagged injection, Wiseco,Pauter rods and hairdryer. I haven't decided on the host vehicle
New Project .... Opel with C20let motor with T3/T4. Currently still using Motronic but soon two change !!
I am considering VEMS. My basic requirements are:
- Solid Hardware design
- Staged,Seq Injection
- 60-2
- EGT
- Knock Sensing
- Staged Water Injection
- Boost Control
- Launch Control
Most of this I have done on the Silver Opel but it required two computers due to the fact that you don not have access to the ECU software.
Vems allows you to do this all with a single hardware platform. I would prefer to write most of the code myself and use the basic drywers from VEMS .........but I still need to convince them.
My approach would be to use it as is,....... and as my confidence grows expand it with my own software.
