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Old 06-18-2014, 11:32 AM   #24 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by SouthArk370Z View Post
One thing that I've wanted on my 7AT is to have the current gear displayed on the dash in automatic mode, as it does when in manual mode. Not sure how the dash handles it, so it may not be possible.
The ECM sends the current gear to the dash repeatedly (every 55ms on my manual Z). So the problem is that even though you could send out messages disguised to look like the message from the ECU to trick it into displaying the current gear, it would immediately be replaced with the next message from the actual ECU.
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