Jacob Ilkka

Just made myself a little subdomain for my carpc.

http://carpc.jacobilkka.com/index.html

So... I have finally happened upon a distributor of Lawicel's CANUSB CAN to USB adapter. ImageCraft Embedded Systems has them currently for $139.00! Expensive, but it's around the same price as everywhere else, at least you don't have to pay international shipping.
This is a must if you are going to be tuning your ECU with T5/T7/T8suite, or are just wanting to view, in real-time, the stats rolling out of it alot faster than OBD-II. I also found this article pretty fascinating and am going ...

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So, I have been working on my carpc's wiring the last few days as it was quite cluttered before I got off of school for break. Will be posting pics and descriptions sometime soon.

I'm probably doing the weirdest thing you have ever heard of to a Saab. Right now I am printing out the instructions to remove the Shark fin antenna on top of my car, so I can put a WiFi antenna up inside of it. No I will not be wardriving, I will most likely be parking outside of my friend's house and using his WiFi though, it is secured and he gave me the code so it's perfectly legal . Also, after much downtime due to power inverter destruction, this Friday I will be installing my new M2ATX ...

I can't remember where I read it. It was either here or at SC, about Saabs finding and parking next to each other (because you know, its the car with the brain, not the driver). Well, I had parked my car at a hotel yesterday, and when I came back to get it, there was a newer Saab backed up next to mine. They seem to do that, I pull mine in nose first, the other backs in...
Anyway, I thought the pic was classic, despite the terrible grain and blown out highlights. Click to enlarge.
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