I have not seen any posts on Autometer's Dash Control product for the C7 so I figured I would give a quick review.

Dash Control utilizes your vehicles factory dic to display performance information that you choose. It plugs into your OBD2 port allowing you to monitor parameters from the vehicles data bus. You can customize it to display what you want. You can also customize it to alarm you if the vehicle exceeds a value you set. Example, water temp, trans temp, afr, boost pretty much whatever you want.





Here is what comes in the box along with the OBD2 adapter.





Here are some.of the items you can display.





I have mine set to display boost and iats

It is very easy to set up. You plug it in to your computer with the USB cable and then select which parameter you want displayed. The only drawback is it will only display two items at one time. If you want to see other items you hit your door lock button to display the next two items. You can monitor up to 8 pages with 2 items per page which equals 16 parameters total. I contacted Autometer to see if any future updates would allow more items to be displayed at one time and they said only 2 are possible on the C7 dic.

The one other side benefit to the Dash Control is it will control your NPP exhaust. With the mirror control on the driver's door you can switch it from alway open to factory settings to always closed in any driving mode. The only thing to remember is it does not overide the NPP at start up. When you start the car.it will start in the factory settings and then the Dash Control will override the factory settings within a few seconds. As a example if you start the car it touring mode if will start with the exhaust closed even though the Dash Control is set to be open. After a few seconds you will hear the exhaust switch to whatever you have the Dash Control set for. While you are driving it switches instantly. I always leave my car in sport mode so the exhaust is always open even at start up.





The display will show NPP power mode, stock mode, or quiet mode when you use your mirror button to change modes.

It's a pretty trick setup. It works great for me because I did not want to add gauges to my car and it gave me the benefit of controlling the NPP where previously I had pulled the fuse to always have it open.

 

Very nice to know on this will look at this when I boost my car.

 

Interesting... two questions

How quickly does it register change? Meaning, when youre in boost does it change real time or is there a lag? Also, does it have decimals or only whole numbers? (7.3 psi, etc)

You said you can change what's displayed via the lock button... so what happens if you unlock your door for someone? Does it change your display every time?

 

I also have a question on the NPP, does the quiet mode actually keep the flaps closed full time (or any of the modes that might be available)? Meaning if you go wide open throttle do they still stay closed all the way to 6500 RPM's?

 

Stealth mode on the Z06 does not keep them closed to redline. They open up in the 4k range. There was a thread here relating track noise violations where folks were trying to keep Stealth to redline. I also think there's a reference in the manual not to use Stealth mode in racing events. Even if it was ok, the only way to fore the NPP valves closed electronically is to build an external controller, and it's a thoroughly non-trivial task. Theta in Tech has a thread and circuit diagram for how to do this.

 

Lol, me and you already talked about that in my thread about that thread, poor guy might be with the angels . Anyway, was hoping it is the ECU that this device is hooked up to and can tell it to NOT let the valves open.

 

Interesting. Their web site doesn't list the C7 version yet, but the C6 version is $280.

 

Right here man:

http://www.autometer.com/dashcontrol...ette-2014.html

No manual unfortunately

 

[QUOTE=Muuhaha;1591637659]Interesting... two questions

How quickly does it register change? Meaning, when youre in boost does it change real time or is there a lag? Also, does it have decimals or only whole numbers? (7.3 psi, etc)

You said you can change what's displayed via the lock button... so what happens if you unlock your door for someone? Does it change your display every time?

It's pretty quick but it does have a little lag. It's a lot better than the torque app I tried but not as quick as a gauge running off of a vacum source vs the map sensor. It does not read in decimal either. It does have the capability of running off a analog source so I suppose you could run something like a plx boost sensor for a instant reading. I have a dedicated boost gauge in my daily driver truck that has similar lag so again its pretty responsive. The lock button forwards to the next two values you want to view but the unlock button does not back it up. So if you hit the unlock button it does not change anything. The bad news is if you want to go back you have to hit the lock button eight times to view the previous two values.

 

It does keep the valves closed to redline. I just went out and tried it just for you.

 

Wow man, thanks a lot for testing that, really appreciate it . Here is a link to the manual and what myself and xp800 above were talking about. Its page 162 in a outlined square in the center bottom. So now I need to decide if I chance breaking the actuators:

https://my.chevrolet.com/content/dam...te1stPrint.pdf

 

One other thing I forgot to mention is you have to be in nav mode to view the values.

 

@Silverboost

Did you try this on a Stingray or a Z06? If its not a Z06 I wonder if it works on both. Also did you find a good place to buy it, there site is $280?

 

I tried this on a Stingray. I would think it would work the same on either car. The Dash Control is overriding the factory settings. I purchased mine straight from autometer mainly because it was so new no one else stocked it. They just become available early February.

 

I understand what you are saying here also what you are getting at here. BUT lets all think about it, No way any of us keeps our eyes on the boost gauge are any gauge for that matter to the POINT of by the time you saw it coming onto the gauge & letting your foot out of it you would have a blown up motor.

The only gauge that is other than the temp gauge will give a man some warning to cut the car off before something happens.

 

PID update is right about 4-5 times per second
You can add a decimal if you would like with the configuration software
The unlock button does nothing, so pages are only changed with the "lock" button.
DashControl controls the exhaust valves by sending messages directly to the exhaust module itself, if we tell it to stay closed it will stay closed no matter what was intended from the factory.

www.dashlogic.com

Here is a quick video showing fuel pressure that shows some PID update time

 

Just a heads up for anyone reading this, it does not work very well on the Z06. I just got mine tonight and did a few tests and the flaps opened a few times in there quiet mode option, car was in sport mode. It didnt work at all once I switched to Track Mode and even set exhaust to Stealth, when you get aggressive with gas. I did not try the other car modes with quiet mode enabled.

@Silverboost
I found a way to get more than 2 things on each page, just use "Advanced" mode when editing a page and manually type in the text box. I now have IAT, KR and TQ on page 1.

 

Thanks for the tip on advanced mode I will have to try that. I am surprised the valves don't stay closed. There is another thread in here started by dashlogic that states the valves will stay closed because they are commanded to stay closed. I am pushing over 700 rwhp and they stayed closed. Made me nervous actually I probably won't try it again. Trying to push that much exhaust thru with the valves closed seemed unhealthy.

 

Your welcome.
Remember that the valves are not technically "closed", they are just at an angle to make them take the muffled path vs. the loud path thru the mufflers. The only thing I can guess on them not staying closed is that the program changed from Stingray/Z06 or 2015 to 2016.

 

They should stay closed, we just have a bug to work out it appears. Will have a fix in a short time.