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FC TECH: HP TUNERS
move and the GPS data can be interpreted made it so accessible to the masses. With a
for speed, location and so on. So, whether range of exchange ECUs and a wide variety
you’re a mountain biker, a track day of OBD and vehicle-speciic data cables
connoisseur or you like the four hoofs of a also on offer, HP is on a ceaseless pursuit
different kind of horsepower, RaceRender for ECU excellence.
can help to bring your performance alive. As they’re basically dominating the
monster horsepower V8 market across
the Atlantic, there’s no reason that same
brand of cutting-edge tech and vast
wealth of tuning knowledge won’t transfer
seamlessly to our little island nation and
the four-pot turbos that now engulf all of
the Euro-tuning landscape.

Check out: www.hptuners.com

Apple systems that turns any dog and bone What’s the application
into a powerful motorsports telemetry and list like?
video system.
You can see your lap times instantly, Growing. Rapidly. Given the Stateside
capture video and telemetry data, analyse roots of the company, many of the vehicles
laps and impress your inline audience with currently catered for are understandably
video and data overlays. It even works with honking great big V8s, but that’s changing
OBD-2 interfaces so you can see additional all of the time. Not least because the
data such as engine RPM, throttle position European arm of HP is set to develop its
and temperatures. It can be switched own code and solutions for Europe-centric
between ive pre-determined modes for vehicles, which in turn will feed the US
drag racing, circuit laps, lap segments, 4x4 operation with valuable data and additional
trail and just a raw data feed. As you record applications. Currently there are vehicle
the lap or run with your phone the data is speciic solutions for everything from Audi
then overlaid on top of the visuals from through to Volkswagen via Chevrolet, Ford,
the drive. Best of all, it’s free and you get Hyundai, Ininity, Jaguar, Subaru and many,
almost all of the functionality even with the many others. Check the website for speciic
complementary download version. You’d vehicle applications, but as mentioned the
be mad not to have it on your blower really. European list is set to mushroom over the
RaceRender on the other hand is a much coming months.
more involved software package, intended If it’s possible to make remapping any
for either PC or Mac users. Create amazing easier, we’re yet to see a company that’s
videos with high-tech data overlays using
GPS and OBD-2 signals. By combining the
output from your camera (GoPro, 360FLY,
Sony ActionCam, Garmin VIRB and many
others) you can visualise the data from a
range of GPS devices, dataloggers and
other third-party apps. It’s also possible to
use it for pretty much any sport where you

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