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Old 03-07-2012, 08:14 PM
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The GOODbox is Good! and so is dondo!

Just got my GOODbox in and installed. Extremely impressed! Dondo is a great guy to deal with, and makes a great product, highly recommend!

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I bought one of the first ones and it is still not installed, I just can't seem to get motivated enough to tear the dash apart
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I absolutely love mine. Team send yours to Dondo for the firmware upgrade first if you plan on installing it at any point.
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It's extremely easy to install team. I did it in about an hour with a flashlight.

12 screws (Including the kick plate)
1 10mm bolt for radio
Splice in 10 wires
Drill one hole (Not into your head, but the ashtray )

Took me longer to think of something to put in the start up screen than to install.
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Has anyone heard from Dondo? I want to pick up a goodbox from him but got no answer.

How much did you guys pay for it?
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I think it was 220 shipped..

How long has it been? IIRC, he travels a lot for work and sometimes takes awhile to reply.
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Yeah he travels overseas a lot, just give it time.
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It's so good that two years later I still don't have it installed
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Pretty awesome install idea by houstonrx8er got me motivated to contact Dondo, hope he replies

https://www.rx8club.com/rx-8-parts-sale-wanted-44/bnib-goodbox-eeprom-programmer-232692/
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^ I had thought about doing something like that I didn't think the buttons would make it thru, glad to see it works, to bad I'm too chicken **** to drill. Lol
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Originally Posted by TeamRX8
Pretty awesome install idea by houstonrx8er got me motivated to contact Dondo, hope he replies

https://www.rx8club.com/showthread.php?t=232692

Yeah he did mine the same way and I love it. I really love my Good Box. I wish it had a few more parameters in the setup but it is great for what it is and I prefer it much more over the Cobb for seeing live data.
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What about it melting in that hot texas heat? I mean Glue is glue I suppose... Starting to make me want one...
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Originally Posted by 9krpmrx8
Yeah he did mine the same way and I love it. I really love my Good Box. I wish it had a few more parameters in the setup but it is great for what it is and I prefer it much more over the Cobb for seeing live data.
Yup! The cobb is very hard to see while driving. I also hooked up oil pressure and temp into the aux inputs. My standard sets are: (oil pressure, oil temp) (CWT, oil pressure) (AFR, AFR command) and (rpm, mph). Right now I'm tuning, so (LTFT, STFT) and (AFR, STFT) are useful to watch. You can't have both the cobb and the goodbox running at the same time however, and the goodbox is incompatible with a Metra kit. Still a nifty deal. Mine is installed in the otherwise-useless coin box, btw.
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What about it melting in that hot texas heat? I mean Glue is glue I suppose... Starting to make me want one...

It is serious glue, Seems to be holding up fine and if it doesn't it is easily fixed.

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Yup! The cobb is very hard to see while driving. I also hooked up oil pressure and temp into the aux inputs. My standard sets are: (oil pressure, oil temp) (CWT, oil pressure) (AFR, AFR command) and (rpm, mph). Right now I'm tuning, so (LTFT, STFT) and (AFR, STFT) are useful to watch. You can't have both the cobb and the goodbox running at the same time however, and the goodbox is incompatible with a Metra kit. Still a nifty deal. Mine is installed in the otherwise-useless coin box, btw.

yeah I change mine up all the time but right now I usually have it set to watch boost/AFR, water temp/IAT, and STFT/LTFT.
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