A Digital Dash for Your Toyota 86, Subaru BRZ or Scion FR-S

You do not need a standalone ECU to run the RDM-7 in an 86. The car's factory CAN bus already carries what a dash wants, and the RDM-7 has a built-in preset that reads it. Pick Toyota 86 in the setup wizard and the channels come up named and scaled.

What is confirmed, and what is not

We would rather you knew this before you ordered than after.

• Series 1 and series 2 — confirmed working. Tested on the car.
• Series 3 — not confirmed. The adaptor plugs in, but we have not tested it and it may need a firmware change first. We are not going to claim it works until somebody has watched it work.

If you are on a series 3 and willing to be the one who finds out, tell us. New presets go out as firmware over Wi-Fi at no cost, so if a change is needed you get it without sending anything anywhere.

What you need

The dash, and the RDM ECU Adaptor in its 86 variant. The adaptor is made in Adelaide, terminates in Deutsch DTM-4 on the dash side, and joins the 2 m lead that comes in the RDM-7 box. It carries 12 V, ground, CAN High and CAN Low.

What the install takes

Four wires at the dash end: 12 V switched ignition, chassis ground, CAN High, CAN Low. Fuse the 12 V at 2 A. The plug is an eight-way push-in terminal block with release tabs, so there is no crimping. Around five seconds from key-on to numbers moving.

What you get

800x480 IPS touchscreen, around 50 fps, under 20 ms from the bus to the screen. Up to 128 CAN channels. Logging to microSD at 1 to 200 Hz in plain CSV. The layout editor is served by the dash over its own Wi-Fi, so you build your screen in a browser tab on your phone — no cable, no laptop, no licence.

Display, logging and CAN transmit only. The RDM-7 does not tune your car.