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Email a Friend	Article: Reading Your Car's Brain - Part 1
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Message:	I found this article at autospeed.com and thought you might be interested in reading it: 'Reading Your Car's Brain - Part 1' - Accessing live and stored data from the ECU. No longer do you have guess what the intake air temp is on a hot day - you can read it straight off from the factory sensor! No longer do you have to wonder if that sudden glitch is the ignition timing being pulled back by the knock sensor - you can read off the ignition timing live and as it happens. All this data - and a lot more - is available from the diagnostics port of your car's engine management system. The potential benefits from having access to this information are huge - and the tools to read it are available at budgets affordable by the individual tinkerer. But there are also some major traps to fall into - so read on very carefully... You can read the article at: http://www.autospeed.com/A_1935/cms/article.html