Megasquirt mounting location, where? Options

[yarin]

For you MS guys using a relax box where did you mount the brain?

I bought the 12' unterminated relay cable from DIYautotune. I'd like to mount the box under the dash, but 12' isn't enough to reach. I mounted my relay box next to the stock relay box. I'll measure again tomorrow, but i'm pretty sure it wont make it.

Where did you guys mount your MS box? I thought about mounting it in the middle of the firewall between the two seats, but I don't want to expose it to direct sunlight. I know the compnents on MS II are OK to higher temps, but I see no reason to expose it to high temps. My next idea was to mount it inbetween the seats on top of the tunnel. But I know that the when someone releases a 5 pt harness one of the belt is going to smack the unit.

Any other ideas?

[DNHunt]

One thing to consider. Take the DB9 serial port off of the board and run wiring to the dash and relocate it there if your ECU is not handy to the passenger compartment. It only uses 4 or 5 of the pins so it is really easy. You want your laptop handy. You can also run the LEDs off the board but, given enough time they will get reassigned anyway as you look for more outputs. The end result for me is that they became useless. In my opinion they are just bling anyway. Either you have the laptop connected and it will tell the same thing or you get so used to the thing working you don't look at them anyway.

Dave