Red Rose button

[Beast]

gutu12 said:

Beast said:

Good-o.
Will immediately stop feeling like I'm being short-changed

It didn't do anything when it was new either.

Guy - did you fit the short intakes....or was that someone else ?

[gutu12]

No, not me Chris. Car was totally standard although I did have a sports exhaust fitted and the wheels coloured.

Not that it would have bothered me either way but Dream Machines said it had a LW body too. I never even thought about it until I saw how rare a RR LW was all these years later. Do you know if she is actually one of the rare few?
Hope you're still enjoying.

[TimJM]

C3BER said:

Power sell it.

OCTANE SWITCH
Part No: ME0636 Price: £49.99 Vat: £8.75 Cerbera V8

Hmmm, am I missing something. Powers list it at £170 (£149.99 + VAT) not £49.99 + VAT. Must be a cheaper option out there.

[C3BER]

That's a direct copy and paste from their parts list from a few months ago. Maybe somebody has added a 1 to the front or missed one out.

Edited by C3BER on Wednesday 24th April 12:37

[Beast]

gutu12 said:

No, not me Chris. Car was totally standard although I did have a sports exhaust fitted and the wheels coloured.

Not that it would have bothered me either way but Dream Machines said it had a LW body too. I never even thought about it until I saw how rare a RR LW was all these years later. Do you know if she is actually one of the rare few?
Hope you're still enjoying.

Absolutely no idea....but you have made me query in my own mind now. Will reach out to [name I can't quite remember now] and find out if there was anything special about the build. None of the panels feel particularly 'thin' or the bonnet light.

[Warwick67]

dean_ratpac said:

To be honest I barely use it, however it always gets pointed at by passengers... "what's that"

depending on the mood I make something up.

Tubro boost
Ejector seat button
99/97% of shut the f&*K up.
Small spikes are released in case chased.

I'm going to fit a button, so I can make up stories too..... yey.....

[gutu12]

Beast said:

Absolutely no idea....but you have made me query in my own mind now. Will reach out to [name I can't quite remember now] and find out if there was anything special about the build. None of the panels feel particularly 'thin' or the bonnet light.

Chris - FYI
My comment on the blog may of course be misinformed but this site must have got the unconfirmed info from somewhere. Maybe Castle TVR. The photos were theirs if I remember correctly.
Gotta love these little mysteries.

http://tvrblog.blogspot.co.uk/2008/01/find-of-week...

[alphaone]

I remember viewing the car at a Mitsubishi dealer in Chesterfield, told them I was going on holiday for 2 weeks and would sort it out when I got back. When I did get back they had already moved it on to castle, so I phoned them and they had added 6K to the price because 'they had done some work on it', I beleive they had it for sale for at least a year then I stopped looking.

Looked to be a great car when I viewed it, hope they new owner is enjoying it.

[mikesr]

spitfire4v8 said:

You're changing to 4.5 induction graham so it becomes a bit easier as you can have a chip based around a factory red rose chip with custom fuel and ignition maps when you next come in for mapping. The problem would have been replicating in the 4.2 chip what TVR did in the red rose chip .. if you see what I mean.

Joo, I can probably dig out the details of the changes to the EPROM. I fitted a switch to my car a couple of years ago. Works a treat retarding the ignition (by 3.9 degrees I think it was).

[aide]

mikesr said:

Joo, I can probably dig out the details of the changes to the EPROM. I fitted a switch to my car a couple of years ago. Works a treat retarding the ignition (by 3.9 degrees I think it was).

Are you two talented chaps going to Chatsworth this weekend?

[spitfire4v8]

thanks that would be great

[mikesr]

aide said:

Are you two talented chaps going to Chatsworth this weekend?

I can't make it I'm afraid.
Its taking an age to finish the interior. I had contemplated refitting the seats and driving down in the bare fiberglass tub
But the brakes need an overhaul so I'm not going to risk it.

[Incognegro]

RESURECTION!

A car running Powers knock MBE would it even need the 95/97 button? As don't the knock sensors do all that automatically?

I'm thinking of getting a button but for something different like switching to a 'noisey' mode or something more wild. Suggestions welcome

[Juddder]

Incognegro said:

I'm thinking of getting a button but for something different like switching to a 'noisey' mode or something more wild. Suggestions welcome

Dual ECU mapping switch?

Here's a project I've been working on for a while but yet to use in anger...

This is a 27C512 (64K EPROM) I have programmed with two different ECU versions - 94110035 and 92810274

Both of these were originally on 27C256 (32K EPROM) chips which shares the same format as the twice the size 27512 chip but with one less address register

The switch ties the highest address bit to either 0 or 1, which switches between the two bank of ECU programs

So as you switch the switch, the first or second program switches in to the ECU and off you go

Not sure if it can cope switch mid driving, as the whole EPROM is changed out, but I've tested it on a test board and I can load a totally different map depending on the switch setting

Now to finish off the Eagle drawing and prototype the proper board to go in the ECU

[Byker28i]

Hum, I've always, gone abroad, could only get normal unleaded so it ran ok but a little rough but then sorted it out. I guess the adaptives compensated?
On return with Shell Vpower I've always had to reset the adaptives

[spitfire4v8]

If you fancy doing a short production run of boards i'd buy 20 off you right away. Loading different maps into my emulator on my cerb isn't a big hassle, but a switch on the dash for say quiet or pops and bangs maps would be so much easier
I already have a red rose button so that would give me 4 variations on maps ..

[Juddder]

spitfire4v8 said:

If you fancy doing a short production run of boards i'd buy 20 off you right away. Loading different maps into my emulator on my cerb isn't a big hassle, but a switch on the dash for say quiet or pops and bangs maps would be so much easier
I already have a red rose button so that would give me 4 variations on maps ..

Now that's the kind of impetus I need to actually get these things fabricated

I did the same with some arcade stuff and had the boards fabricated in Hong Kong - takes a few weeks but the quality is good and the price is great

Will try and get the board layouts finished this weekend and off to www.dirtypcbs.com and will update when these are done

For connecting the switch I'm thinking of having a two pin header at right angles to avoid obstructing the lid of the ECU which any switch can be connected to - like this one



Does anyone know if the Red Rose switch is a momentary non-latching switch, or a permanent latching switch?

[aide]

It's permanently latching.

[aide]

Think of it like an ignition tuning box with only two settings.

On my car, looking at the ignition in degrees on the diagnostic software, pressing the red rose button to select 97, advances the ignition by 2 degrees at idle.