Dyno Results Database website
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Dyno Results Database website
Wanted to run a little project idea by you guys...
What would you think of a dyno results database on the internet.
It would work something like this : Users would come in and upload their dyno results (ability to upload graph + input numbers). This would include all the pertinent information such as the make/model of the car, mods, and perhaps 0-60 and 1/4 mile times if known. (probably some other stuff, like the mileage on the car, type of dyno used, etc.)
Then everyone would have the ability to browse through the database, looking up this information. Given sufficient entries, enthusiasts would have comprehensive information about the exact gains that could be expected from performing certain mods.
There would of course be a forum, and perhaps some other resources.
Once it's all working, there's no good reason that this should be limited to only maximas. As far as I can tell, such a resource doesn't exist anywhere else on the internet.
This is what I'm looking at from a practical/technical standpoint. I'd register a domain, I already have all of the hosting details worked out (i work for a company that provides hosting), and the site would probably run on either ASP or PHP with a SQL Server 2000 backend (I have a rather extensive background in progamming web applications). Eventually, any extraneous costs would probably be covered by advertising/donations (similar model to maxima.org). I would also need some people to help me run it (keep an eye on the posted data, and perhaps moderate the forums). I would probably also need people that know a little more than I do about dynos to advise me on the finer details, and maybe someone to write up a faq or something.
What do you think? Good idea, bad idea?? Would you find it useful? Any suggestions? Criticisms? volunteers?
-Tom Z.
tomz@oddbite.com
What would you think of a dyno results database on the internet.
It would work something like this : Users would come in and upload their dyno results (ability to upload graph + input numbers). This would include all the pertinent information such as the make/model of the car, mods, and perhaps 0-60 and 1/4 mile times if known. (probably some other stuff, like the mileage on the car, type of dyno used, etc.)
Then everyone would have the ability to browse through the database, looking up this information. Given sufficient entries, enthusiasts would have comprehensive information about the exact gains that could be expected from performing certain mods.
There would of course be a forum, and perhaps some other resources.
Once it's all working, there's no good reason that this should be limited to only maximas. As far as I can tell, such a resource doesn't exist anywhere else on the internet.
This is what I'm looking at from a practical/technical standpoint. I'd register a domain, I already have all of the hosting details worked out (i work for a company that provides hosting), and the site would probably run on either ASP or PHP with a SQL Server 2000 backend (I have a rather extensive background in progamming web applications). Eventually, any extraneous costs would probably be covered by advertising/donations (similar model to maxima.org). I would also need some people to help me run it (keep an eye on the posted data, and perhaps moderate the forums). I would probably also need people that know a little more than I do about dynos to advise me on the finer details, and maybe someone to write up a faq or something.
What do you think? Good idea, bad idea?? Would you find it useful? Any suggestions? Criticisms? volunteers?
-Tom Z.
tomz@oddbite.com
Re: Dyno Results Database website
I'll help. Have both technical and graphical background. Shoot me an email (link on your left) on what type of help you need 
Originally posted by tomz17
Wanted to run a little project idea by you guys...
What would you think of a dyno results database on the internet.
It would work something like this : Users would come in and upload their dyno results (ability to upload graph + input numbers). This would include all the pertinent information such as the make/model of the car, mods, and perhaps 0-60 and 1/4 mile times if known. (probably some other stuff, like the mileage on the car, type of dyno used, etc.)
Then everyone would have the ability to browse through the database, looking up this information. Given sufficient entries, enthusiasts would have comprehensive information about the exact gains that could be expected from performing certain mods.
There would of course be a forum, and perhaps some other resources.
Once it's all working, there's no good reason that this should be limited to only maximas. As far as I can tell, such a resource doesn't exist anywhere else on the internet.
This is what I'm looking at from a practical/technical standpoint. I'd register a domain, I already have all of the hosting details worked out (i work for a company that provides hosting), and the site would probably run on either ASP or PHP with a SQL Server 2000 backend (I have a rather extensive background in progamming web applications). Eventually, any extraneous costs would probably be covered by advertising/donations (similar model to maxima.org). I would also need some people to help me run it (keep an eye on the posted data, and perhaps moderate the forums). I would probably also need people that know a little more than I do about dynos to advise me on the finer details, and maybe someone to write up a faq or something.
What do you think? Good idea, bad idea?? Would you find it useful? Any suggestions? Criticisms? volunteers?
-Tom Z.
tomz@oddbite.com
Wanted to run a little project idea by you guys...
What would you think of a dyno results database on the internet.
It would work something like this : Users would come in and upload their dyno results (ability to upload graph + input numbers). This would include all the pertinent information such as the make/model of the car, mods, and perhaps 0-60 and 1/4 mile times if known. (probably some other stuff, like the mileage on the car, type of dyno used, etc.)
Then everyone would have the ability to browse through the database, looking up this information. Given sufficient entries, enthusiasts would have comprehensive information about the exact gains that could be expected from performing certain mods.
There would of course be a forum, and perhaps some other resources.
Once it's all working, there's no good reason that this should be limited to only maximas. As far as I can tell, such a resource doesn't exist anywhere else on the internet.
This is what I'm looking at from a practical/technical standpoint. I'd register a domain, I already have all of the hosting details worked out (i work for a company that provides hosting), and the site would probably run on either ASP or PHP with a SQL Server 2000 backend (I have a rather extensive background in progamming web applications). Eventually, any extraneous costs would probably be covered by advertising/donations (similar model to maxima.org). I would also need some people to help me run it (keep an eye on the posted data, and perhaps moderate the forums). I would probably also need people that know a little more than I do about dynos to advise me on the finer details, and maybe someone to write up a faq or something.
What do you think? Good idea, bad idea?? Would you find it useful? Any suggestions? Criticisms? volunteers?
-Tom Z.
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Originally posted by gtr_rider
Thats a great Idea man, you know my thoughts already
Thats a great Idea man, you know my thoughts already
just registered dynodb.com (don't bother, there is no web page yet
let's get this thing going (I have a week left before I hafta get back to important schoolwork, if I pull a few allnighters, I think I can have something rudimentary up and running by then)
the hardest thing by far will be integrating the site with the forum software. (I'm aiming for a single login/user management for both the dyno db and the forums, dunno how possible this is going to be cuz I haven't pulled apart the forum software yet).
Right now, i'm wrestling with the question of how exactly to process/store images (whether in files with pointers in a db, or stored directly as binary data in the db... i have a feeling the latter may the easier solution, but worse from a performance standpoint). Also don't know how I'm going to deal with the possibility of a single user having more than 1 car.
Ideally, A user can have 0 or more cars
A car can have 0 or more dyno plots
but then, I don't want to maintain consistant data at the cost of making the process of putting in a dyno too complicated...
the more I think about it, the more details I realize I have to work out...
w00t
-Tom Z.
Originally posted by tomz17
just registered dynodb.com (don't bother, there is no web page yet
let's get this thing going (I have a week left before I hafta get back to important schoolwork, if I pull a few allnighters, I think I can have something rudimentary up and running by then)
the hardest thing by far will be integrating the site with the forum software. (I'm aiming for a single login/user management for both the dyno db and the forums, dunno how possible this is going to be cuz I haven't pulled apart the forum software yet).
Right now, i'm wrestling with the question of how exactly to process/store images (whether in files with pointers in a db, or stored directly as binary data in the db... i have a feeling the latter may the easier solution, but worse from a performance standpoint). Also don't know how I'm going to deal with the possibility of a single user having more than 1 car.
Ideally, A user can have 0 or more cars
A car can have 0 or more dyno plots
but then, I don't want to maintain consistant data at the cost of making the process of putting in a dyno too complicated...
the more I think about it, the more details I realize I have to work out...
w00t
-Tom Z.
just registered dynodb.com (don't bother, there is no web page yet
let's get this thing going (I have a week left before I hafta get back to important schoolwork, if I pull a few allnighters, I think I can have something rudimentary up and running by then)
the hardest thing by far will be integrating the site with the forum software. (I'm aiming for a single login/user management for both the dyno db and the forums, dunno how possible this is going to be cuz I haven't pulled apart the forum software yet).
Right now, i'm wrestling with the question of how exactly to process/store images (whether in files with pointers in a db, or stored directly as binary data in the db... i have a feeling the latter may the easier solution, but worse from a performance standpoint). Also don't know how I'm going to deal with the possibility of a single user having more than 1 car.
Ideally, A user can have 0 or more cars
A car can have 0 or more dyno plots
but then, I don't want to maintain consistant data at the cost of making the process of putting in a dyno too complicated...
the more I think about it, the more details I realize I have to work out...
w00t
-Tom Z.
Sounds like fun
Get this project up and going. People will start sending in ther dyno results.
If I had any web space, I'd do this too. I think ASP is a good idea too, since it's simple, and rudimentary prototypes can be constructed in matter of hours, given you have an idea of what you wanna do.
If you have SQL Server, that's great, but Access will work too.
The only way I can think of for generating the dyno plot on the fly is if the user looks at his dyno plot and breaks it up into increments of 100 or 200 RPM and enter the corresponding HP/TQ in the web submit form, and that info can be stored into Excel work sheet and be linked with that person's entry. When an average person brings his dyno graph from the shop, he's gonna be holding a piece of paper anyway, and chacnes are he's not gonna have a scanner. So I think this makes sense.
If you're good, this can be finished in 2,3 days working in your spare time. Please get it done soon!! Once this is in place, ppl will start sending in their dyno info. I guarantee it.
If you have SQL Server, that's great, but Access will work too.
The only way I can think of for generating the dyno plot on the fly is if the user looks at his dyno plot and breaks it up into increments of 100 or 200 RPM and enter the corresponding HP/TQ in the web submit form, and that info can be stored into Excel work sheet and be linked with that person's entry. When an average person brings his dyno graph from the shop, he's gonna be holding a piece of paper anyway, and chacnes are he's not gonna have a scanner. So I think this makes sense.
If you're good, this can be finished in 2,3 days working in your spare time. Please get it done soon!! Once this is in place, ppl will start sending in their dyno info. I guarantee it.
that is a great idea! here's a link to a website started by a soCAL shop owner.
http://www.importreview.com/main.html
his collection of dynos.
http://www.importreview.com/dyno.html
http://www.importreview.com/main.html
his collection of dynos.
http://www.importreview.com/dyno.html
I just thought of another design idea.
You probably thought of this too by now. When a person enters his dyno info, give him a list where he can choose his "Mod level". Something like this.
Stage 1 - Intake
Stage 2 - Intake, Ypipe
Stage 3 - Intake, ypipe, catback
Stage 4 - Supercharger
Stage 5 - Dual engine. just kidding.
Once the database is set in this fashin, we can sort the entries like for just the cars having an intake so we can see who's got the highest dyno.
Oh man, this should be good. I think once this is set up, it's gonna be pretty popular on the net. And other people with other cars can enter their info too. And once this site becomes big enough, you can sell it to Microsoft. lol
Stage 1 - Intake
Stage 2 - Intake, Ypipe
Stage 3 - Intake, ypipe, catback
Stage 4 - Supercharger
Stage 5 - Dual engine. just kidding.
Once the database is set in this fashin, we can sort the entries like for just the cars having an intake so we can see who's got the highest dyno.
Oh man, this should be good. I think once this is set up, it's gonna be pretty popular on the net. And other people with other cars can enter their info too. And once this site becomes big enough, you can sell it to Microsoft. lol
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Re: I just thought of another design idea.
Hah, last thing we want is microsoft getting into the car business...
-Tom Z.
PS. the problem with entering the mod level is that we would have to foresee every possible combination of mods someone could do to a car. That might seem hard enough for a maxima, but how about all the other cars that people put in!?!? I'll probably enable some sort of full text search on that field, so that people can do exactly what you propose (ie. search for stillen, or intake, to get all of the cars with those mods that have dynos.)
-Tom Z.
PS. the problem with entering the mod level is that we would have to foresee every possible combination of mods someone could do to a car. That might seem hard enough for a maxima, but how about all the other cars that people put in!?!? I'll probably enable some sort of full text search on that field, so that people can do exactly what you propose (ie. search for stillen, or intake, to get all of the cars with those mods that have dynos.)
Originally posted by hokiemax
You probably thought of this too by now. When a person enters his dyno info, give him a list where he can choose his "Mod level". Something like this.
Stage 1 - Intake
Stage 2 - Intake, Ypipe
Stage 3 - Intake, ypipe, catback
Stage 4 - Supercharger
Stage 5 - Dual engine. just kidding.
Once the database is set in this fashin, we can sort the entries like for just the cars having an intake so we can see who's got the highest dyno.
Oh man, this should be good. I think once this is set up, it's gonna be pretty popular on the net. And other people with other cars can enter their info too. And once this site becomes big enough, you can sell it to Microsoft. lol
You probably thought of this too by now. When a person enters his dyno info, give him a list where he can choose his "Mod level". Something like this.
Stage 1 - Intake
Stage 2 - Intake, Ypipe
Stage 3 - Intake, ypipe, catback
Stage 4 - Supercharger
Stage 5 - Dual engine. just kidding.
Once the database is set in this fashin, we can sort the entries like for just the cars having an intake so we can see who's got the highest dyno.
Oh man, this should be good. I think once this is set up, it's gonna be pretty popular on the net. And other people with other cars can enter their info too. And once this site becomes big enough, you can sell it to Microsoft. lol
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Re: Get this project up and going. People will start sending in ther dyno results.
Yup, i'm definitely going ahead with this project, although I don't know about 2-3 days... I could certainly pull it off, but would have to make a lot of compromises.
You are probably right about the scanning of dyno plots, tho.. not everyone has a scanner. There is no problem storing this information in a database, the problem is later generating a graph from it in realtime (without spending tons of time writing my own component, or paying $$$ for a premade component).
If anyone has any suggestions for a way to generate a PLOT in realtime from an asp script, for free, lemme know.
-Tom Z.
You are probably right about the scanning of dyno plots, tho.. not everyone has a scanner. There is no problem storing this information in a database, the problem is later generating a graph from it in realtime (without spending tons of time writing my own component, or paying $$$ for a premade component).
If anyone has any suggestions for a way to generate a PLOT in realtime from an asp script, for free, lemme know.
-Tom Z.
Originally posted by hokiemax
If I had any web space, I'd do this too. I think ASP is a good idea too, since it's simple, and rudimentary prototypes can be constructed in matter of hours, given you have an idea of what you wanna do.
If you have SQL Server, that's great, but Access will work too.
The only way I can think of for generating the dyno plot on the fly is if the user looks at his dyno plot and breaks it up into increments of 100 or 200 RPM and enter the corresponding HP/TQ in the web submit form, and that info can be stored into Excel work sheet and be linked with that person's entry. When an average person brings his dyno graph from the shop, he's gonna be holding a piece of paper anyway, and chacnes are he's not gonna have a scanner. So I think this makes sense.
If you're good, this can be finished in 2,3 days working in your spare time. Please get it done soon!! Once this is in place, ppl will start sending in their dyno info. I guarantee it.
If I had any web space, I'd do this too. I think ASP is a good idea too, since it's simple, and rudimentary prototypes can be constructed in matter of hours, given you have an idea of what you wanna do.
If you have SQL Server, that's great, but Access will work too.
The only way I can think of for generating the dyno plot on the fly is if the user looks at his dyno plot and breaks it up into increments of 100 or 200 RPM and enter the corresponding HP/TQ in the web submit form, and that info can be stored into Excel work sheet and be linked with that person's entry. When an average person brings his dyno graph from the shop, he's gonna be holding a piece of paper anyway, and chacnes are he's not gonna have a scanner. So I think this makes sense.
If you're good, this can be finished in 2,3 days working in your spare time. Please get it done soon!! Once this is in place, ppl will start sending in their dyno info. I guarantee it.
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