Just something I found on the New Zealand Maxima site , might be of some interest to somebody ....Thanks to the killerVQ30DE on the NZ Maxima site....

Wish they had it for the 6th Gen ..

http://www.plmsdevelopments.com/consult_if.htm

 

Yeah it has been posted a few times. Few people have tried it. Once I get a Laptop, I will get it and see what I can do with it

 

Great link. I also am planning this with a laptop purchase.

 

isnt this really and obdii scanner since u cant modify anything??

 

Does anyone know if this would work on new Nissan's as well?

 

i dont think it has anthing to do with consult-II, i was just looking up some web pages that have free software for windows, linux and all u need is one of these OBD to serial cables and a laptop, but u can use a usb-serial converter and an IPOD and put linux on an ipod and get all the same info as that interriator

 

An iPod? Huh? You mean the Mp3 player? Do you mean an Apple Laptop?

 

its NOT OBD, its a Consult interface (Nissan Consult).

You can change values its just with Nissan ECU's they lose changes when you turn car off.. I believe you can just configure what settings you want in the program and just load them when required.. advance timing, a/f ratios

The software it cames with is called Nissan Datascan, few issues with my JDM ecu but working through so not a problem I think, states its compatible with USDM Maximas

I also brought OBD Scan Tech (Nissan) $US20 and it works perfectly.

You can download trial version here, http://obdscantech.cjb.net/

A 486/p2/p3 old laptop will do the job nothing flash required

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In short all you need is
1. Laptop (or looooooong serial cable )
1a. USB->Serial adapter if you laptop doesn't have serial port
2. Consult cable
3. Software (Nissan Datascan[$20] or Conzult[free] or Calumsult(trial)

 

I wish we could change revlimit

 

i have the program and is great but so far i have tried it on many maxes and it tends to work on only 95 maxes. i tried it on my 98 a 96 and it didnt work on either. something about the 95 being different then the rest

 

My probs all fixed with Nissan Datascan.

Tom got my gauges working.. we set them half to RPM and the other half to Speed.... I could then get readings.. so it looks like by default it shows sensors that the car doesn't have so it doesn't give you anything. You then just keep adding in gauges till you have all the working ones.

Try OBD SCAN TECH NISSAN (Link above) this worked when Datascan didn't

 

i dont think that i want to buy another program that im not sure is going to work on yr max. i tried out toms program and even though its a great program i never get to use it since my 98 wont have its ecu read by it and my brothers 95 is never home since he always drives it....maybe ill swap ecus without him knowing.

 

yes the mp3 player, it is a mini computer, there is a version of linux you can put on it which is nice cause then u can use the screen and interface to the usb port, there are linux versions of the odb-ii scan tool

 

what is the difference between the obd-ii and consult connectors, are they the same but use different or more wires or is there another connector somewhere?

 

Its a virtually fully WORKING TRIAL with nag screens, Even the nag screen says please test this works before registering so no risk

 

well this is only a consult not constult-II so for 5th gen people the obd-ii software is what would be best

 

im going to downoad it and try it right now

 

well i never like to put my name behind a product.....but i must say this does work very well. i messed around with minor **** like my idle and looking at my knock sensor pull timing. after 2 mins i got it working once i did a self scan for my ecu since it didnt get it on its own. for those of us that have 96-99 ecus and wat to read and i guess alter our cars settings this is great to have. i have used the plms software on my bros 95 and i have used normal obd2 programs but i think this is better in my case. all i need is to learn what a degree change in the timing does along with what messing with the rom does. i wish it saved the info u uploaded to the ecu after its turned off, but ill look at it.

thanks alot killer for this. i wish u would have shown up wit thi before i bought the other program.

 

Can you get the flash from the rom?

 

i am the least knowlegdeable guy when it comes to ecus..... i guess u can upload things in to the rom but i dont think we can use a reflash

 

If you mean can you download the ROM ecu , then yes you can. So we could compare JWT vs TS etc

Glad it worked for you to!! Was so glad that it worked when I tried as the Datascan that came with the cable wasn't working at all (is now).

So we have confirmation it works on a 1996?

 

i have a 98 and it works on mine but theres something im not sure about yet. ill pm u to check on something. the plms software works on a 95 though

 

Does it come in HEX>?

 

Its a BIN file so I'm guessing binary (ie not a text file)

 

Care to send it to me?

Kevlo2000 at yahoo.com

 

My brother has that and it would not work on my 96 I30, couldn't detect the ECU. But I have seen the program work on his 89 S13 and it is pretty sweet

 

Wonder if this will work on obdI 3-gens?

 

It should, it seems like it will work with most Nissans pre 95

 

i know the program u mean...i had that one also and it didnt work. i he still has the cable then dl the other trial version of a diferent progranm listed further up in this thread and if it worked on my car i assume it would work on any car

 

will this work on a 2000? I am interested in purchasing this.

 

If it indeed works then I am going to get this, I really need to be able to trouble shoot with this product.

 

Kinda confused as which is the best software to get and all I need is a simple cable and download the software??? I have the laptop.

 

anyone know where you can get the cable?

 

http://www.myscantool.com/order.html

Im not sure if we need the interface though?

 

u can buy the cable from plms and then download the free trial software from the other link and your good to go

 

Have the PLMS cable. Have tried conzult and Nissan tech scan and none work. Can't get them to synch up with my ECU. The free version of consult has no "ECU scan" function so I don't know how it is supposed to even know what ECU it is trying to read. The Nissan tech scan is very confusing and there is no instructions.....got it to determine some engine initialization but could not go on from there.

Help?

 

To clarify, with the OBD Tech Scan program we got it to use the "ECU Finder" and it found 2 different ECU code things... FF FF E7 and FF FF ED. Then we click step 2 which is "auto scan" and it says:

Transmit: FF FF E7
Recieved: FF FF E7
Register: Failed

And we can't get any further than that. We used "Register Finder" and got no results from that. It scanned through a bunch of stuff but didn't give us any indication that any of the registers worked.

 

JWT ECU or Stock ECU?

 

Stock. Messes with it all afternoon yesterday. Really need to get this going so I can get some timing data for JWT.

 

killerVQ30DE PM him or Liquidvenom

Since both of them have it working, they should be able to help you.