Last summer I drove my old 80 cj5 from Arizona to Alaska after a 5.3 vortec conversion, (my build thread is on here somewhere). No matter how old you are, I'm 47, when you tell friends, family and loved ones your plans to drive the old jeep to Alaska they have a way of making you feel as if you're 18 again and off on some fool crazy idea. Like the time I told my mom that nobody was going to tell me what to do anymore that I was joining the army,,,yeah that was a bright move. Or the time I took off on my 1982 Honda nighthawk and rode from east Tennessee to Santa Cruz California with 140 bucks in my pocket, I spent 62 dollars of that on mcdonalds and gasoline, gas was about 70 cents a gallon in those days. Anyway I'd always wanted to come to Alaska and finally I was in a position to get a job that got me here. The smart way to do this trip is to do it on somebody elses dime. But alas in the middle of May my contract is over until next fall so what's a man to do with 3 months off with pay? Woohooo jeep trip! So all winter I've bought parts, parts and more parts!!! Afterall isn't that was jeeps are for? I ran out of money doing the conversion and couldn't afford things like new seats, or a radio even. And nothing like a long 5,000 mile trip to break a new conversion in. Yeah it rode like a wagon, the defroster blew like my first girlfriend (kinda warm but not really hot) and the seats, gawd those awful 30 year old busted seats. So a couple of weeks I installed new seats,,,wow what a difference those made. Such a difference in fact I thought, you know, I should replace the leaf springs and shocks while I'm at it. Also bought a new JVC head unit with that xm satellite radio for some good skynard tunes while running up to the arctic circle. I did the heater blower motor upgrade last month, that was a definite plus. And a few weeks ago I bought an ASUS Transformer android with a 10 inch screen it has a built in gps and I installed offline mapping software so no wifi connection needed. Today I downloaded the TorquePro app for 5 bucks and I bought a BAFX OBDII bluetooth adapter. The TorquePro is completely customizable and will display everything the pcm cares to share. here are some screen shots.
The opening screen allows the choice of pulling fault codes and clearing them, map view (gps) and my favorite real time data.
Touch the screen and choose Map View.
And it takes me to my current location on google maps. This map is from my homes wifi in the field i won't have this function unless it pulls from my gps and uses my tablets maps, I'll test that later.
Back at the main menu I choose realtime data and my opening page is a set of dials I customized through the App.
I chose these gauges to be my primary gauges. Hopefully I can remove the rather large tach off my steering column. There are dozens if not a hundred or so gauges I could choose from but I thought these would be a good set to start with. I'm curious about the speed, I had a choice between gps speed and pcm speed. I'm interested in knowing how fast the jeep "thinks" it's going.
I use the touchscreen to flip between pages.
My next page is mostly geared toward engine operating parameters, oil pressure, oil temp, water temp etc, I have a ton of info to choose from.
There are pages and pages of reference points to choose from. O2 sensor info, ignition timing advance, misfires on whatever cylinder, basically if the pcm coughs it up I can see it on here.
Sorry for the crappy picture but this final page I put a tilt and incline meter and a compass, I can also move an accerlerometer over here and horsepower to wheels and torque readings to here. Might be useful to offroaders, I'm not much of an offroader, I do explore trails but I don't blaze new ones. The crown king ride from lake Pleasant was about has hard as I've pushed the jeep.
One last neat feature of this is that all of this data can be overlaid over your gps map and/or you can overlay this over your androids camera and record where you are driving with selected data overlaid over the image. There are some Youtube videos that will probably interest some people and lots of info out there. I'm a gadgety kind of guy so I think this stuff is pretty neat.
The opening screen allows the choice of pulling fault codes and clearing them, map view (gps) and my favorite real time data.
Touch the screen and choose Map View.
And it takes me to my current location on google maps. This map is from my homes wifi in the field i won't have this function unless it pulls from my gps and uses my tablets maps, I'll test that later.
Back at the main menu I choose realtime data and my opening page is a set of dials I customized through the App.
I chose these gauges to be my primary gauges. Hopefully I can remove the rather large tach off my steering column. There are dozens if not a hundred or so gauges I could choose from but I thought these would be a good set to start with. I'm curious about the speed, I had a choice between gps speed and pcm speed. I'm interested in knowing how fast the jeep "thinks" it's going.
I use the touchscreen to flip between pages.
My next page is mostly geared toward engine operating parameters, oil pressure, oil temp, water temp etc, I have a ton of info to choose from.
There are pages and pages of reference points to choose from. O2 sensor info, ignition timing advance, misfires on whatever cylinder, basically if the pcm coughs it up I can see it on here.
Sorry for the crappy picture but this final page I put a tilt and incline meter and a compass, I can also move an accerlerometer over here and horsepower to wheels and torque readings to here. Might be useful to offroaders, I'm not much of an offroader, I do explore trails but I don't blaze new ones. The crown king ride from lake Pleasant was about has hard as I've pushed the jeep.
One last neat feature of this is that all of this data can be overlaid over your gps map and/or you can overlay this over your androids camera and record where you are driving with selected data overlaid over the image. There are some Youtube videos that will probably interest some people and lots of info out there. I'm a gadgety kind of guy so I think this stuff is pretty neat.
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