Phone App

[topher5150]

Has anyone heard of an app that measures your car's performance, and maybe horsepower. I heard some people talking about something like that, dose it exist if so is it worth it

 

[zmt325]

torque it is awesome for obd2 will still work on obdi just not all the data logging and all the cool stuff. i played with it in my friends 1.6 versa yesterday and we got a whopping 88 hp



o and you will need an elm327 obd2 connector for all the cool stuff like $35 and the app was like $10

 

[2002WRXSTi]

I tried Torque on my Mark and it claimed it could not communicate with my car. I used it on a friends Edge and it worked plus my Mark is a 98' so it's not early OBDII

I only used the free DL of Torque so I don't know if the purchased one would actually work for me?

 

[zmt325]

you know now that you mention it, i had a problem with a 1997 sable a few days ago. it even pops up a window that says something about the cheap readers not working with ford obdII. I think you can set up a vehicle profile and it will still tell you hp, tq, 0 to 60 and 0 to 100 while not being plugged into the car. i havent had time to fool with it.

my cars are 93 and 95 so no go on the marks diagnostic for me.

 

[87TTOPGT420]

There's an app for iPhone 4 that is called dynolicious it's been compared to the gtech and was found to be more precise

Haven't Downloaded for myself it's $12.99 but have known others and it's fairly accurate gives you hp, g force, torque, et, and some other things

 

[LaserSVT]

There are a couple dynos for the Android phones that are free. Last one I had was "A Dyno" and it was pretty accurate. It said 330 RWHP when the car dynod at 333.

Its important that the phone is mounted solidly and that you know the cars precise weight within 20lbs.

 

[MediumD]

I tried Torque on my Mark and it claimed it could not communicate with my car. I used it on a friends Edge and it worked plus my Mark is a 98' so it's not early OBDII

It's probably the adapter. Some of the ELM327 clones have issues with the J1850 protocol... My Saturn uses this protocol and has the occasional problem. I haven't yet tried my ELM clone in either of my friends OBDII Marks or my Crown Vic, but issues there wouldn't surprise me. A higher quality adapter would solve these issues.

 

[1LoudLS]

i work with a guy that uses torque on his android tab, and he has gone through a bunch of those Ebay bt-odb adapters, a couple has worked great, and then stop working out of the blue one day, others never worked from the minute he received them. it looks like all of the cheap Chinese knockoffs are garbage and its about when, not if they break. does anybody know of a actual good quality bluetooth ODB adapter?

 

[McMkVIII94]

I bought a Chi-knock-off OBDII bluetooth adapter from Amazon for ~$25 and tried it with Torque (free) on my Motorola Droid 1... it worked so I paid for Torque (4.99). This combo has worked on my wife's Toyota Avalon and my '03 Chevy Astro work van so far, haven't tried it on a Ford yet, but I suspect it's not going to work well with the J1850 protocol. Also, I get occasional broken connection to BT adapter, and "faulty obd adapter" message in Torque while using it to monitor in real-time. But it read and cleared a CEL on the Astro van just fine.

Don't bother with the ~$45-50 ones from ebay or Amazon, they're the same as the ~$25-30 ones, just re-packaged and re-labelled.

Higher quality bluetooth OBDII adapters:

Kiwi Bluetooth $100 MSRP, ~95 on Amazon, gets good reviews, on/off switch.

Scantool.net Bluetooth $150, the best of the lot, fastest refresh rate for real-time monitoring of sensors. 3 year warranty, 90 days no questions return, also has USB port for laptop use, upgradeable firmware, extended command set, premium software available, on/off switch.

BTW... all these "calculate" horsepower, torque, MPG, etc... based on your inputting vehicle weight and engine displacement.

The Scantool is the one I'm saving up for...