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[ARD - Lucky]

@joe, Some of it has to do with how tight the wastegate is. That can be a contributing factor for one. Second is overall condition of the trans and what the shift adaptation and more precisely line pressure adaptation is set at.

[Ghost Shadow]

Lucky, you think you doing a guess apearance at carlisle? flashing for the weekend? might be nice to meet some of the guys and make a few bucks on the side too

[ARD - Lucky]

Yes at the moment plans are to attend, nothing concrete but we're checking hotels, rental cars, etc... Would be great to say high to the east coast crew!

[Ghost Shadow]

you say rental cars, how mamny people coming out?

[Gideon35T]

Carlisle = Tax write off for Lucky!
Start saving boys and girls - I'm sure He'll be too busy to have fun

[ARD - Lucky]

Ghost Shadow, on 03 February 2012 - 12:57 AM, said:

you say rental cars, how mamny people coming out?

Just me and the spouse... At least from ARD.

Gideon35T, on 03 February 2012 - 01:29 AM, said:

Carlisle = Tax write off for Lucky!
Start saving boys and girls - I'm sure He'll be too busy to have fun

Too true my friend, when am I going to go to one of these car shows and just relax

[Gideon35T]

Well, you've become a cornerstone of this community. There's a reason I'm ok with waiting for you to hash out all the ME7 stuff before I get a tune. In the mean time I'll go without because I'd prefer to buy your product vs any competitor. Even if your product quality and price were equal to the competition (you're clearly better) I'd still buy from you because of the service. What other vendor has gotten on this forum and ran dozens of pages of info about their product and spent innumerable hours answering questions and taking feedback? That alone buys you my loyalty.

But, it also means you'll constantly be swamped with questions and work ... rofl

[ARD - Lucky]

That's seriously what keeps me going... knowing i'm serving the community and providing what folks need.
I really appreciate the kind words!

Just wait for what's around the corner.... got a few tricks up my sleeve

[sconeman]

ARD - Lucky, on 03 February 2012 - 02:24 AM, said:

Just me and the spouse... At least from ARD.

I'm planning to go to Carlisle this year it'd be great if we could both be there, let's chat

[Ghost Shadow]

sconeman, on 03 February 2012 - 04:04 AM, said:

I'm planning to go to Carlisle this year it'd be great if we could both be there, let's chat

i plan on going,...i sent you both PM's

[Huzer21]

Another lurker patiently waiting... I was planning on a different vendor but simply based on rep, I'm waiting for this as my solution. Looking forward to getting this once it's ready!

[ARD - Lucky]

Thanks guys for all the positive encouragement. We're working out the final details on the remote loader but it's a month or so out yet... negotiating pricing right now so we can keep the pricing reasonable.

[Vatnehol]

perhaps this is little off topic, but i choose to ask you here lucky because of the me7 programing skills that you have.

i want to convert those new active xenon headlight to my volvo s60 2001 halogen.
many problems will occour.
the headlight aiming module(hcm) get several signals from the can bus,
speed(from the brake system, abs, bcm module, need to be going over 5mph to be activated)
reverse light( from cem, deactivates when put in reverse)
light conditions( from cem, need to be dark for the aming to be activated)
steering angel dtsc system( i have that one, sas module)

is their any way to fake those signal direct to headlight perhaps? i know the modules ignore every
command put out on the canbus except the ones that have direct adress.
is there any equipment that listen to the canbus to get the right signals and send them directly
to the headlight without the hcm?

thanks!

keep up the good work lucky!

[Logan2224]

Just to clarify, if I buy a parts car to do my manual swap, it needs to be an me7 car right?

[Jardim]

not needed, you can use a 94 M56L if you wish.

[ARD - Lucky]

Vatnehol, on 09 February 2012 - 02:19 AM, said:

perhaps this is little off topic, but i choose to ask you here lucky because of the me7 programing skills that you have.

i want to convert those new active xenon headlight to my volvo s60 2001 halogen.
many problems will occour.
the headlight aiming module(hcm) get several signals from the can bus,
speed(from the brake system, abs, bcm module, need to be going over 5mph to be activated)
reverse light( from cem, deactivates when put in reverse)
light conditions( from cem, need to be dark for the aming to be activated)
steering angel dtsc system( i have that one, sas module)

is their any way to fake those signal direct to headlight perhaps? i know the modules ignore every
command put out on the canbus except the ones that have direct adress.
is there any equipment that listen to the canbus to get the right signals and send them directly
to the headlight without the hcm?

thanks!

keep up the good work lucky!

If I understand correctly you want to put bi-xenon in a standard halogen car correct?
It's pretty easy really so long as you don't require active headlight aiming. If you do then it's a big task and really not worth it IMO.

Anything can be done but getting a Can sniffer from ixxat and writing a custom program and hardware to interface the CAN bus commands via ixxat to a MCU to control the headlight would be a costly endeavor...

[Vatnehol]

that's correct!
and it is the aiming i want to work no matter what cost. if somewhere in the future you maybe get free time from all you other prosject, you may jump on this, a lot of interested around the aming bi xenon lights in norway and sweden that is willing to pay for easy and or bolt on solution

i will look it up your suggestions, thanks for the input, i'am thankful.
i can hardwire bypass all functions except the signal from the dtsc angel, and need to extract that so the aming will be correct.
i will give it a go

[ARD - Lucky]

If you like start a thread on this and I'll be happy to give you some pointers. That way we can keep this thread on track for ME7, plus I have some updated info I'll be posting up tomorrow

[Logan2224]

Jardim, on 09 February 2012 - 05:55 PM, said:

not needed, you can use a 94 M56L if you wish.

I know the transmission is the same, but I thought there were ME7 specific parts I needed.

[Mogatu'r]

Hey Lucky, sent you a PM. I'm excited about this .