For all you Gearheads w/ an iPhone

This is by far the coolest looking ap I have seen. Anyone know where I could find a 'cheaper' version that isn't 12.99?

Dynolicious is an all-purpose automotive performance meter, utilizing the built-in accelerometer in the iPhone and iPod touch to record your driving characteristics. BunsenTech, the makers of the software, claim that it can record 0-60 times within .08 of a second, accurately estimate your current speed and monitor and record any directional G force. The system seeks to perform nearly every function of (much) more expensive dedicated monitoring units, which seems like an awfully tall order for a $12.99 piece of cellphone software.

Fortunately, bloggers more experienced with the dedicated units have dispelled fears that this app is a waste of money. Dynolicious can actually do what it claims, and presents its data in a useful and attractive way. Realtime speedometer graphing and skidpad display may not be much more than pretty toys, but a bevy of data analysis tools can properly process your driving after it's done. Entering your car's weight and estimated power even allows Dynolicious to fulfill its namesake, calculating actual wheel horsepower and drivetrain efficiency with surprising accuracy. Data is recorded for as many vehicles as you want, and car mods can be noted and taken into account over a course of multiple tests.

full article below...

http://gizmodo.com/5030749/iphone-apps-we-like-dynolicious-car-performance-meter

heres another article on it...

Dynolicious turns iPod or iPhone into a low cost dyno
Dynolicious has just brought out a real-time automotive performance software application for the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch units running the iPhone 2.0 software. Priced at just $12.99, the Dynolicious software offers a real-time readout of of acceleration, lateral G, braking G, standard drag racing timing, and it calculates wheel horsepower from the data you provide on weight and drivetrain efficiency.

The software achieves this remarkable feat using the built-in accelerometer in the iPod and iPhone. The accelerometer is the same feature that allows the i-device to "know" when you've turned it sideways or shaken it.

Here at Driving Sports HQ, we're all a bunch of big geeks, so we already had an assortment of iPhones and the latest generation of iPods laying around. We downloaded the Dynolicious software and installed it in moments - then we went to play on our lunch hour.

In our opinion, this application is well worth the money. From what we know about our cars, the Dynolicious offers an assessment that is accurate to within reasonable tolerances

http://www.drivingsports.com/blog/2008/07/dynolicious-tur.html