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Old 09-22-2021, 06:55 AM
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Electric power steering without computer

If anybody wants to run power steering without the stock computers, just the Showa for the steering, this little board makes it work. 2 power wires, 2 go to the Showa computer and it works.
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The video below is my RX8 idling, half bridgeported 20 B, sequential box with paddle shift also with kill and blip
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For those curious, this is the Hobbytronics Leonardo CAN BUS board.

https://www.hobbytronics.co.uk/leonardo-canbus

Dave Blackhurst has done some great work on decoding the RX-8 canbus system.


Also great work by Jonathan Coe on additional decoding and adding functionality.

https://www.chamberofunderstanding.c...-working-code/

The EPS needs vehicle and engine speed to go live and work properly, and both of those can be sent or faked by the Leonardo canbus module.
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another option





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David did mine. Great service and it worked the first time i plugged it in. I never new something like this existed.
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did you intend to post a video in the previous post?
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I HAD my car idling, 20 b but it didnt seem to work on here.
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yeah, I was interested is seeing it, upload it on youboob and then post the link in the text body
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send me a email, efm3101@gmail.com i can send it to you
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Is this available for purchase?

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This little doohickey seems to be too legit to be one off thing.... I can't find any information about it online, is this a prototype or is this something available to us?
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he’s a forum member here and sells it

https://www.rx8club.com/members/equinox92-124437/

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