A Volkswagen Scirocco Blog

On this day two years ago, I bought Scirocco 1.4TSI, after seeing it in the show room for less than 2 hours. Make this post just in memory of that day, one of the most happy and exciting day in my life.

Encoded with MediaCoder

Several months ago I started to learn OBD-II programming and wrote a small utility to retrieve live data from my Scirocco’s OBD-II port. Since then I’ve improved my utility and made a graphic virtual dashboard on a tablet PC. Here is the video shot as a demo. The displayed data includes speed, RPM, engine load and throttle position. Of course a lot more data can be retrieved through OBD-II port and I planned to make several multiple screens showing different combinations of data to the virtual dashboard. Also I planned to add data logging and drag testing features.
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Equipments:

• Sony HD Handycam
• Microsoft LifeCam HD
• Creative Labs Live! Cam
• HP Mini311 Laptop
• Adobe Premiere
• MediaCoder 0.7.5
• Scirocco 1.4TSI

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Run 1: Scirocco 1.4TSI (MTM ECU remapped) vs BMW 325i
Run 2: Scirocco 2.0TSI (MTM ECU remapped) vs Golf GTi (ECU remapped)
Run 3: Scirocco 1.4TSI (TTi ECU remapped) vs Scirocco 1.4TSI (MTM ECU remapped)
Run 4: Scirocco 1.4TSI (TTi ECU remapped) vs Scirocco 1.4TSI (Stock)
Run 5: Golf GTi (ECU remapped) vs Scirocco 1.4TSI (Stock)

* The formers win over the latters