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Old 01-02-2018, 05:15 AM   #1
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Instant fuel economy in the driver information center

Greetings.

I will be using my ZL1 as a daily commuter to work when the weather is nice. To that end, I intend to hypermile the living daylights out of it, partly because 100 octane gasoline is ridiculously expensive in Europe, and partly because I particularly enjoy the challenge of hypermiling a gas guzzling V8. It's a perverse hobby of mine.

To hypermile effectively, I require real time telemetry. Unfortunately the ZL1 does not provide it (resetting the average fuel economy is not practical in that context).

To that end, I did some "digging" and found this video:

2010 Camaro with Instant Fuel Economy Added to DIC

this video appears to depict a custom firmware running, rather than a "Dashcontrol" OBD-II style module (although there is no definitive evidence to the contrary).
  • Does anyone know how this was done?
  • Is the firmware available anywhere and if so, where?
  • Is there any documentation on creating one's own firmware for the driver information center and the center console touch screen display?
  • Is there any source code available?
  • Are there hardware or software specifications on how to write the firmware for the driver information center and "MyLink", and if so, where?
If you are the author of that video and you are reading this, please comment here on how you did this, preferably documenting the steps so I can replicate what you did.
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Old 01-03-2018, 07:39 PM   #2
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This is who you need to contact.

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Old 01-04-2018, 10:21 AM   #3
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Oh wow, just what I want, thank you!

How did you find out?
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Oh wow, just what I want, thank you!

How did you find out?
I found them from their youtube page after watching the video.
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