iDash Sensors for Older Trucks

00:04 this is Locka our 1966 Chevy C20 and clearly it’s from a time before digital displays and data logging and it certainly doesn’t have an OBD2 port for our idh data monster but that didn’t stop us from getting the data we needed and if you’ve got an older vehicle it

00:20 won’t stop you either let me show you how we loaded this Custom Creation with all the sensors you could possibly want and how we log it all right here [Music] if you want to add external sensors to your ID Dash you’ll need one of these this is a four Channel analog module and

00:44 this is a four Channel thermal couple module each allows you to add four sensors either analog pressure and temperature or thermal couples for high temp environments and we also offer a five channel module that allows you to add a frequency input from something like a hall effect sensor a hall effect

00:59 sensor detects the presence and magnitude of a magnetic field the result is that if you point this sensor at a trigger wheel you get a frequency the idh can use this frequency and info that you provide about the trigger wheel to calculate an RPM not just engine RPM but

01:16 supercharger RPM and even wheel speed can be calculated and displayed in the idh for turbocharged engines we also have our turbo speed sensor turbocharger shaft speed is an extremely important parameter when it comes to tuning and this sensor is designed to handle the

01:31 extremely high RPMs that this turbo will see but for a fully instrumented system you’ll also want our pressure and temperature sensors pressure and temperature sensors can be used just about anywhere on a vehicle in this case we’re looking at the more unique instance of the lock ja Force induction

01:46 system and here we have pressure temperatures pre- supercharger post supercharger or pre- intercooler and post intercooler so you might be wondering how you can use these sensors well let me tell you how data saved us on loja so a giant Whipple blower on a durx was a bit of an untested

02:04 configuration for us and what we saw was to get the topend blower speed that we wanted at 4,000 RPM we ended up making about 14 PSI of boost at idle we were compressing all this air with nowhere to go so we essentially overworked and overheated the air and idh showed us

02:20 that that temperature was climbing and climbing and climbing we were able to catch that before any damage occurred to the blower and Implement a turbo smart wastegate to serve as a bypass at idle so without these sensors we wouldn’t have known there was anything wrong with

02:32 this configuration until it was too late the addes can not only display and monitor those parameters but it can also calculate new values in real time based on your data stream for example if you place pressure and temperature sensors on your intercooler in intercooler out

02:46 and the intake manifold the idh can isolate the contribution of Power from Just your intercooler this can be displayed as a percentage or an actual horsepower value you can get a lot of good data from just a few well-placed sensors uh you can put a air pressure

03:00 sensor in different parts of the car and it’ll tell you where the high pressure area is so you can sort of get that Ram Air effect for free while also actually reducing your aerodynamic drag one of the biggest things is temperature cuz uh once those temps start going up that’s

03:13 when we start having problems with the engine or trans we start out at over 105 and once the vehicle starts moving because of the ram air and all that it drops down to just about 90 oh W which makes a huge difference for natural ASP engines with just pressure temperature

03:31 and frequency there’s a massive amount of data you can gather from your own vehicle these pressure sensors are able to be used in air or liquid so you can use them for things like manifold air pressure or engine oil pressure or you can get crazy and use them to monitor

03:45 air pressure in your air suspension with temperature sensors you can get vital readings from your transer diff or you can use them openly like we did on lockjaw to get blowoff valve temps or even fan in and out Temps all of these wiring harnesses are easy to connect plug-and-play Solutions just

04:04 put the sensor wherever you want it and snap in our easy connection cables there’s a massive amount of sensors and wiring in this truck but luckily the bank sensor modules can stack together so they can mount in series but the most powerful sensor is this guy right here

04:18 this is a Banks Air Mouse and it acts as a portable weather station for your vehicle reading ambient weather conditions it reads ambient temperature pressure and humidity which means it reads ambient density and that alone is a very powerful tool ambient air density tells you the

04:35 horsepower potential of the air that your engine is starting with if you use your ey Dash to measure air density at multiple locations across the vehicle you can see how air density changes relative to ambient and you can see the change in air density across any component you’re measuring just like

04:50 drag racers record ambient conditions from a weather Tower at the track now you can have all that data right at your fingertips you can isolate components and see a quantifiable change in real time and we do the exact same thing on our research and development on our

05:04 engine dyo you’ll see pressure and temperature sensors everywhere on an engine all of this can work in tandem with the data from an OBD2 connection if you have an OD up vehicle or if you have an aftermarket ECU we’ve got connections for that as well so you might think we

05:19 went a little overboard with the idh not only can It Read any parameter coming off of a can buas of a modern vehicle but it can read external sensors calculate complex parameters in real time and log in display just about anything you could want it’s the ultimate engine evaluation tool remember

05:36 this truck had basically nothing when we got started and if you’ve got a vehicle you want to know everything about you can buy our idh data monster and all the sensors we just showed you at bankspower.com