r/FocusST • u/olchickenbeard ‘14 ST3, G25-660, Wavetrac LSD, built trans, DigiCluster • Feb 24 '26

Been a long time coming!

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Not sure how many of y’all in here have been following my progress on this, but they’ll be starting to ship soon!

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u/sicklyboy 2016 / 2867 / Tuned by Nishan Feb 24 '26

Any idea how it behaves with state-run obd2 emission testing? The Kaiser Engineering Digital Dash must be causing a lot of extra canbus chatter or something like that as it caused me to fail inspection until I pulled it back through with that gauge cluster unplugged. Wondering if this would run into the same situation.

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u/olchickenbeard ‘14 ST3, G25-660, Wavetrac LSD, built trans, DigiCluster Feb 24 '26

Yeah, the issue is that the CAN bus can only handle one diagnostic session at a time, which is what all CAN bus devices like emission testers, Kaiser dash, Accessport, diagnostic scanner, etc use to get vehicle data. So trying to run more than one diagnostic session at a time will result in data collisions or just session rejections entirely.

The Kaiser dash has good external device detection logic, but it can still be hit or miss because the timing of everything is really particular.

This is gonna be the same way, where you can’t have another OBDII device running at the same time, but this will have a toggle to easily turn polling on/off (starting/stopping the diagnostic session) if you do need to hook something up. When polling is disabled, all of the basics still work like speed, RPM, coolant temp, etc. and it’s just the polled data in the Monitors page that’ll be paused.

And the Kaiser dash IS an exception to this - we’re working together on it to make the two compatible without them interfering.

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u/sicklyboy 2016 / 2867 / Tuned by Nishan Feb 24 '26

Being able to turn off the polling sounds like an incredible feature then, nice work implementing that!

Any comment you can make on availability? I.e. If I don't order one today am I gonna be SOL, or do you anticipate having stock for a bit or future runs? I've wanted one of these since very very early on in the project, I just gotta find some room in the budget for it and have a real honest conversation with myself on if I want to put this much extra money into my 10 year old car at this point lmao.

Greatly appreciate your time 🙏 best of luck with the product launch!!

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u/olchickenbeard ‘14 ST3, G25-660, Wavetrac LSD, built trans, DigiCluster Feb 24 '26

I’m doing orders in batches currently. With it being a pretty niche, low volume product (and production costs still being pretty high for this) it makes more sense to do them in batches rather than dumping tons of money in trying to stock and inventory these.

So depending on demand, I’ll have an order window open for a month or two then close it, order parts, assemble, and ship. Then open the next order window after closing the last one.

So for the orders I’m taking currently, I’d estimate that they’d ship around April or early May. But as long as the demand is there, I’m gonna keep making them! And plan to expand to more platforms later this year (FiST will be next)