Quote Originally Posted by Mugelpower View Post
So I try to switch to parallel communication.
I don't think it's so much serial vs. parallel as it is the fact that you've got to SPEED up the serial quite a bit, which is entirely doable, or switch over to a CAN based type network, which again, with the newer PICs, entirely doable.

yes you are right about your detonation assumptions.
Know a bit about engines myself : http://www.davidpower.de/fotos_mot.htm
Point taken. Looks like a bit of a fun place to work there! Wish I could read German(?)