Aaron's Custom ST16x Econometer

That looks great!

 

I would definitely love something like this! good work so far man!

 

Thanks for the update and good job dude, pixel by pixel works and of course it looks better/clearer from a distance.

If you can create a font file, is it possible to create a tiny gif or jpeg 'file' for each 'letter' or am I just being difficult and ridiculous ??

I'd be happy with 15 km/l and I tune mine at 900 rpm.

How many sensor readings are you thinking about at this stage ??

What happens when there is a warning ??

 

Spread them out more like on the Stack gauge
Just a buzzer for warning is enough
Nice work

From what I understand you are programming in machine code? That means the chips only understand what you tell them and there are no ways of installing fonts or photos. Does the system have a BIOS?
I don't think most here understand just how much programming time has been spent on the project.

How bad is the spun bearing? If it's just noisy I could send you a used bearing to put in it's place

 

Sorry dude, that rod is munted and I can't believe it didn't break

What happens when the bearing collapses like that is that the cap gets stretched and the hole is no longer round but oval.
If it starts to knock, stop immediately and change the bearing asap

 

Normally you'd struggle to get the cap off, if a cap is stiff I have them checked just to be sure.
These rods go out of shape real easy & I've junked heaps.

I'm looking at a gen2 5SGE for my next motor too, w/Honda pistons in my Yammie

 

Had them for ages dude, looking for 1.5mm longer rods - might have some made to take the 12 000rpm I plan to run them at
- just kidding, but you never know what can happen in my garage

This is a K20 but the top looks the same


My H22 piston compared to stock

 

Honda did it with their bikes in the 60's, 18 000rpm 4 stroke twins were something to be in awe of

If you machine the 5S crank, you can gain another 2-3mm stroke and get the pistons flush with 3S rods. Expensive but....
I dunno, the 5S bearing will be a lot stronger and stroke is less of a gain than longer rods, plus the undersquare factor?
Ever notice how big the bearings are on a diesel motor?

 

No, the bigger the bearing, the larger the surface area to absorb the load and less it will wear.

Diesels use compression around 18-1 to "explode" the mix without using a sparkplug, they detonate on every stoke and that's why the bearings/journals are so much larger

 

yup........ any wonder diesels last 'forever' producing sooooooo much power.


Different story in cars though, don't they run diesels in the 24hr 'Le Mans' race at ridiculous RPM's ??


On a side note, gidday to our member - Thepowerofdiesel :mrgreen

 

Nup, the LeMans diesel racers produce peak power at around 5000rpm and as per road-going diesel motors the power drops away sharply after that, you can rev them higher but you're only making noise and wasting fuel. The ridiculous numbers are the torque - over 1000Nm available at just 1750rpm, and the fuel pressure for the direct-injection system - 2000bar (29,000psi) in the fuel rails. Going back to the rpm though, I've read that one of the hardest things for the drivers to adapt to is racing a diesel in the wet; whereas in a petrol-engined car you would short-shift to avoid spinning the tyres on gearchange, in a diesel racecar you have to rev the motor higher to get it out of the power band before you shift. Interesting stuff.

 

So what happened with this project? Is it still in work?