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Lotus Dash... Any Help?
Miks15 - 30/4/09 at 01:34 PM

Following my visit to Steve (Hammerhead) the other week i decided to get myself a Lotus Elise Dash because i just loved the look of it.

Anyway it was a bit of an impulse buy and i never really did any research into making it work in a kit car.

So has anyone on here used one? (without using the original lotus wiring).

Main things are what inputs do i need for:
Speedo, Tacho and the resistance for the the fuel gauge

And does anyone have or know where i can find a pin diagram for the back so i can plug the right bits in?

Thanks

Mikkel

scootz - 30/4/09 at 01:43 PM

You would have to establish which type it is Mikkel... the early ones are apparently easy enough, but the later canbus type ones are pretty much a no-go (I know from previous experience of 'impulse-buying'!).

Miks15 - 30/4/09 at 01:46 PM

It's one of the later ones from and S2.

Ive been doing a bit of searching around and seen a few people have done it looking on different websites, but noone goes into any detail.

What is can-bus?

rayward - 30/4/09 at 03:01 PM

if its from the toyota engined car, the speedo is a real problem,

if its the k series version its all pretty easy

i think i have some wiring/resistance info somewhere will see if i can dig it out for you

Ray

AdamR - 30/4/09 at 03:10 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Miks15
What is can-bus?


It's basically a very fast reliable networking technology, a little bit like your computer is using now to connect to tne internet. So instead of every guage and sender unit having it's own set of analogue wires, each component has a little ECU which sends digital messages across the canbus network. Any component can listen for messages from any other, and change it's behaviour accordingly. All very clever stuff, but you'd need (at the very least) the loom and all the sender units for it to work in a kit car.

Miks15 - 30/4/09 at 07:14 PM

Great so looks like ibe splashed out and bought the wrong one then in my haste!

Guess im afer an S1 dash then as opposed to the S2 then one.

Cheers Guys

Mikkel