Page One: Intro
Page Two: Mods and future mods wish list
Page Three: Maxima gets a face-lift (results of my rear 1/4 panel rust repair in progress)
Page Four: My custom paint work/logo for my CAI and dash gauge fabrication
Page Five: Sig Pics I made for friends' Maximas a.k.a. 'The PhotoChop Page'
Page Six: My ramblings on the future of the Maxima.
Page Seven: MagnaFlow Muffler Addition
Page Eight: 1/4 Mile Racing my VE30DE Maxima
Page Nine: YOU ARE HERE - NIStune. My early beginnings with laptop ECU tuning on the VE30DE engine.
NIStune
I recently began a project that would allow me to tune via the ECU in conjunction with a laptop computer. The first step in doing this required me to create an interface that the USB consult could speak to my car with.
The company, NIStune, who created the tuning software, provides a USB to 14 pin male adapter. I had to get a 14 pin female port from another Nissan and wire it directly in to my ECU. This also meant tracing the correct functions of the pins from my ECU. It ended up looking something like this:
The above was done to facilitate the use of the NIStune 14 pin to USB cable, which looks like this:
A screenshot of the NIStune program:
And lastly, here is a little 'celebration video' I made when I finally got the car and the computer talking to each other. *Warning* this video is contagious!
(sorry not sure how to make this link clickable - you have to cut and paste until I do)
http://www.youtube.com/v/oD9NRQR88-0
