Freescan type of program

[cnh1990]

If you scroll down on the pictures there is a person with a laptop in the car. Is he using a freescan type of program on his laptop?www.supercarchallenge.nl/ShowNieuws.asp?Nieuws_ID=88&Item=Techniek
A former SE owner who has resently purchased a V8 wants to know about programs for the V8 OBDII that is similar to Freescan to run on his laptop. You dutch people on the forum can you read this text and tell me what this fellow is doing with his laptop PC?
Calvin 90 SE

[Arno]

The article mentions it has a programmable MoTEC ECU, not the Lotus one.

www.motec.com/

Very good ECU's but rather on the expensive side.

Bye, Arno.

[cnh1990]

Thanks for reading the article.
But I have found the OBDII PC program for the V8's
Calvin

[rob.ellis]

Calvin - there are tools available for the V8, but unfortunately, not free.

Check out:

www.obd2.com/win_ce/data/win_ce.htm

cheers
Rob
(and no, i didn't buy one yet )

[cnh1990]

Found one, communication interface router/cable for $130.00 USD for ISO cars, $160 for the universal adapter and free software to turn the laptop into a scanner usually found for thousands. Will check out and return the results soon.
Calvin

[Arno]

The software from www.obd-2.com (Alex Peper) works fine on my Elise S2 which has the full E-OBD interface.

I assume the V8-Esprit is real OBD-2, so it should be no problem there at all.

As it's an european car it probably uses the ISO-9194 interface of the OBD-2 standard.

Bye, Arno.

[cnh1990]

That's the place and item I am looking at. I was going to wait till I confirmed it actually worked on the V8 from a lot of people went out and got though. I should work.
Calvin