Just to bring everyone up to speed:
I just bought a Durametric about three weeks ago.. I haven't gotten to play with it much, but I must say that I'm very impressed with the amount of information that the Porsche computers store, and that the Durametric can read out, even from my "old" 986. And for reference, I'm used to looking at the complete standalone I have installed in my Rx-7.
It even allowed me to turn off the damn airbag light, something that Advance Auto Parts' OBD II scanner wouldn't do.
As far as using it for datalogging: It seems very functional for that, though it can only record 6 (or is it 8?) Inputs at one time, such as EGT, O2, Tach, TPS, etc.. It does seem slow sampling it, but I believe that to be more related to the 986 computer than the durametric software. And again, I am used to using a completely real-time standalone.
I haven't actually saved any of the telemetry data that I've read on the software, but I plan to do it as soon as I get a chance to dump it to some of the megasquirt graphical backplot programs, to see what's going on as far as AFR vs. MAP vs Tach. Just to see that everything is functioning normally.
Overall, for the price, DEFINITELY worth it.. I haven't seen any other tools that will give you this much information, with the exception of the two MN noted, which costs lotsa go-fast dollars
If you have any questions specifically, let me know, and I'll see if I can answer them.. like I said, i haven't gotten to use it a whole lot yet.
Cheers!
~Aaron
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