makes me wonder..

[MTec007]

any one who saw the first fast and furious, where brian had a laptop hooked up would understand what im going after here

any one happen to know of a way to get the gauge info from am 88 onto the laptop? ive got usb 1.0, serial, LPT printer, and an real old printer port on this old laptop i have sitting around collecting dust. tried to do some research that didnt involve a lot of money (im not looking for something serious, just me being a computer guy and tinkering around a bit) maybe a DIY project involving radio shack components or something..

[Damkid]

in the movie he would have had a standalone engine managment set-up in order to have gauges on a laptop like that

[Team Lightning]

Don't know how much you want to invest but here's a link that should help

http://obd1.com/

any one who saw the first fast and furious, where brian had a laptop hooked up would understand what im going after here

any one happen to know of a way to get the gauge info from am 88 onto the laptop? ive got usb 1.0, serial, LPT printer, and an real old printer port on this old laptop i have sitting around collecting dust. tried to do some research that didnt involve a lot of money (im not looking for something serious, just me being a computer guy and tinkering around a bit) maybe a DIY project involving radio shack components or something..

[92festie]

Don't know how much you want to invest but here's a link that should help
http://obd1.com/

hhhhmmmmmm............

[MTec007]

88's have obd1?

[JPT]

Don't know how much you want to invest but here's a link that should help
http://obd1.com/

hhhhmmmmmm............

X2

[MTec007]

that site keeps saying GM based cars

[Team Lightning]

I was thinking that since the efi cars had it so would the carb ones....
Someone correct me if I'm wrong.....

[MTec007]

my car isnt here to check it out or i would, im getting a little excited about this find
edit:
car got home, a second ago, as i race out side to check under hood, and under whole dash and find... no odb connector. there is a 1 pin error code retreival system by the brake booster though. supposed to ground it to the chassis i beleive

[Team Lightning]

Sorry about that. I thought the 88-89 had a computer also. Wasn't sure since mine is a 90.

[MTec007]

called that website today, they said the (didnt catch the name of it) port was small market and the only people that can do anything with it are dealers. so i guess obd caught on real fast and killed this port out. they dont have any products for it. but you guys with OBD can do what i wanted to do..

[FB71]

GM test connector = ALDL Assembly Line Diagnostic Link. Used from '82 to '95
Ford = VIP Test Connector

GMs offered streaming data beginning in the late 80's, Ford in 1990.

FnF is a bunch of horse-poo. One response had it correct; to see streaming data and change maps, you would need to have an aftermarket engine management PCM, then a laptop would connect to that.

Carbed Festies do have a PCM, but its very crude. Neither the carbed or EFI PCMs have data stream capability, only trouble code output.