C6 HUD in a C5
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From: Hurricane Alley
Here are some of the things that the C6 HUD does.
There are two settings for the HUD: Street and Track; and each setting is preprogrammed to display information that is relevant for each respective – and very different – situation. In Street mode, the driver can select between several configurations that feature the speedometer and the turn signal indicators, and then add to it other information such as audio system data, automatic transmission gear position, and high-beam indicator. In Track mode, there is a larger tachometer, a speedometer, engine condition gauges, and a real-time lateral accelerometer that samples and displays the maximum “g-force” experienced during a turn.
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From: Marlton. Increasing performance one speeding ticket at a time! NJ
I doubt its easily possible. Things like the g-meter wouldn't function unless you also added an accelerometer somewhere in the car, which most likely has to interface with the computer, so you'd have to do a computer upgrade, etc, etc.
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From: Lynnfield MA
The HUD unit is just a projector. All the data it projects comes from
the cluster, and the cluster gets it from the computers.
So, this is not a trivial upgrade.
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From: Farmington CT
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I'm with Bill, I've gotten requests from C6 owners to add the HUD(hasn't been tryed yet), I'm not going to front the $$ for the R&D for a project that only applies to 5% of the C6 market(potential non HUD cars)
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From: Marlton. Increasing performance one speeding ticket at a time! NJ
Adding a HUD to a C6 may be a pain, but I think adding the C6 HUD to a C5 would be near impossible.
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The C5s have the accelerometer as part of the Active Handling. The problem is programming the computer to recoginize the C6 HUD and to pull the on board data and send it to the HUD. Without some knowledge of the software and probably a probably a redesign of the hardware/software interface to the C6 HUD it would be very difficult to do this. Given the right information a computer junky probably could make it work.
Bill
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