Hypothetically....

If someone wanted to record the speed, throttle position and location history of a vehicle for later viewing, what would be the cheapest way to do it?

GPS logger w/ OBD interface

I remember seeing something at Autozone that hooked up to the OBD port and did just what you were asking. I don't recall a price.

Hire a small Filipino to sit in the back seat with a notebook and pencil?

This is hypothetically a '91 Civic. Is there an OBD port on those? I'm thinking not.
Also, the hypothetical person that is asking for this hypothetical information is hypothetically ingorant of these things, so some explanation and/or specifics would hypothetically be appreciated. Ideally, Information about specific products, how they hook up, how the data is retrieved, etc..

http://www.mymobileguardian.com/

This is the unit that Hulk Hogan installed on his daughter's car.

DrBoost wrote: Hire a small Filipino to sit in the back seat with a notebook and pencil?

I can think of better uses for a small Filipino in the back seat.

JFX001 wrote: http://www.mymobileguardian.com/ This is the unit that Hulk Hogan installed on his daughter's car.

But not on his sons...

DrBoost wrote: Hire a small Filipino to sit in the back seat with a notebook and pencil?

Down here Filipinos are expencive to rent. We just go to the day labor corner and pay $10 for an illegal, after all numbers are the same in Spanish and English.

bad joke.

4eyes wrote:

DrBoost wrote: Hire a small Filipino to sit in the back seat with a notebook and pencil?

I can think of better uses for a small Filipino in the back seat.

LBFM FTW!

John Brown wrote:

JFX001 wrote: http://www.mymobileguardian.com/ This is the unit that Hulk Hogan installed on his daughter's car.

But not on his sons... wonder if daddy is proud

Last I heard, his Formula D licence was NOT revoked after the accident.

4eyes wrote:

DrBoost wrote: Hire a small Filipino to sit in the back seat with a notebook and pencil?

I can think of better uses for a small Filipino in the back seat.

Considering Filipino is male and Filipina is female, do tell.

Damn! I knew my E36 M3ty spelling skills would someday be the end of me.

And I was all excited that I got a bunch of new replies to my question. Well, I guess I did get a bunch of new replies to my question.

So after writing my last reply, I hit "Add post" and the thing sits there forever and doesn't go. Then I hit the red "X" to stop it, and then hit "add post" again. Next thing I know I have two identical posts, and learn that there's no way to delete one (EDIT - Okay, I missed that one). So I had to edit the second and write this babble so that it wasn't a repeat of my last post. I sincerely hope that I have somehow made a difference in someone's life by writing this, maybe even a Philipino or his Philipina girlfriend.

Why not use the little "Delete" icon in the corner of the text box? It is disguised as a red "X" when you hover over it.

In regards to the tracking situation, You can hard wire a GPS tracker to the car, but I do not know how you would do telemetry easily with a non OBD2 car. It is good that you have started with an underpowered car but there will be a point you will need to either accept that 3 out of every 2 children driving will wreak havoc on the roadway and that havoc will often involve redline neutral drops/redline clutch drops at every stoplight.

Cheapest he says... a carefully-placed camcorder. Really.

Here's some ideas:

http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2005/10/diy_gps_tracking.html

http://blogs.howstuffworks.com/2008/05/05/diy-build-your-own-gps-tracker/

This might be more what you're looking for:

http://www.ladyada.net/make/gpsshield/

trunk monkey?

So it looks like the GPS part is pretty easy. Maybe not so easy is the telemetry, but I have to think it's possible. Anyone have anything to add in that regard?

Nobody's build an i-app for this yet? Dynolicious mixed with some GPS software should be pretty close

Grtechguy wrote: Nobody's build an i-app for this yet? Dynolicious mixed with some GPS software should be pretty close

Please explain. I'm pretty ignorant of these things.

Well...Iphones have GPS built into them and that wonderful accelerometer chip. Dynolicious is basically a software Dyno (that is surprisingly accurate from what I've heard, Someone who has it CHIME IN now)

The Iphone's GPS Can be tracked live as well.

So I'd have to have an iphone in the car to do that?