Lamborghini Countach VEMS & Drive By Wire

[dangonay]

Here's a couple pics of a car we're just finishing up. For more details on the build, follow the link at the bottom.


The stock manifold with the throttles that are cast into the manifold and the ports for the auxiliary air and cold start injector.




The manifold after the throttles and fittings were sawed off, and a throttle mounting plate for the new DBW throttles was welded on.




Manifold with throttles mounted and harness being routed/fitted.




The DBW controller I custom built along with the accelerator pedal sensor and two throttles.





For more pics and info follow this link.

http://dangonay.com/lambo

[MWfire]

nice!

[rob@vems.co.uk]

Epic first post

[lugnuts]

Very nice project.

TurboFast Electronics also makes a stand alone DBW Controller.

[jeanno]

Very nice work.
This is a project like every one here would love to work on I think.

[paul_f]

Very nice work!

I am extremely impressed with your DBW implementation, I was expecting it to be quite simple (and therefore risky to use on a road car) but was amazed by what you have done. 

The only thing I would add though is a brake switch input (attached to the brake light circuit).  If the brake lights are active for a few seconds and the pedal is above a threshold then the throttles should be shut as it is possible that the thottle pedal is stuck.

[dangonay]

^ Look at the writing on the bottom of the PCB and on the right side. See the input labelled "Brake" and one called "Val"? Brake is obvious, Val is for Valet mode which limits throttle when active.

[mattias]

Such a nice engine to work on, I envy your problems in life..
Very cool to see a such a competent DBW prototype, I hope that project turns into larger scale production.

[Kenny Watson]

Cool man. I saw some pictures of this on the local forum (Revscene) and figured you might be running VEMS.

I have a turbo inline 6 in a Volvo Wagon that i run VEMS on (I live in North Delta).

Cool project dude.

[DevInAz]

What a great project! What kind of time frame are you expecting to finish this project?

Devin

[DevInAz]

any updates on this project yet?

[boostd audi]

amazing.. would love an update tooo