Issue link: http://read.uberflip.com/i/634989
Video Overlay >> Once your session is done and you pull the SD card out of the Racepak IQ3 data logger dash, you can look at all of your on-track mistakes. Plus you can overlay your race data on top of GoPro video footage and make YouTube videos that don't have any cats in them. with one plug and one wire loom. None of the expensive or time-consuming sensors are required on a modern car. The more modern the car, especially anything after 2008, the more information is being read by on-board diagnostics, hence the more information the Racepak can capture and give to you. OBDII plugs also are required to be in the same approximate location on a vehicle: under the driver's side of the dashboard. Plugging in the OBDII connector gave us all the information we could ever want from the vehicle and it was as simple as plug and play. The next step was to mount the GPS antenna for the Racepak so the data logger can measure position and speed. The antenna has a magnet on the bottom, so portability was easy. Simply slap the antenna on a metal roof and you're done. If you have a carbon fiber or fiberglass roof, a simple piece of racing tape will secure the antenna and it won't affect GPS satellite signals. After mounting the Racepak dash to the windshield with suction cups, plugging power into the cigarette lighter, plugging in the OBDII module, and sticking the GPS antenna on the roof, the only thing left to do was organize the wires a bit to keep them out of harm's way and we were off for a hot lap session. And after a bit of track time, when we blew the head gasket on a Honda powered car and parked it for the day, then we spent three minutes moving that data acquisition system to a Nissan 370Z to collect data and lap times from that car. Moving the system was incredibly easy. We did learn that just because you have data being provided to you, you still actually have to pay attention to it for it to do any good. That includes shifting at 7,000 rpm, not 8,200. SN 39