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[toyinhawaii]

Here we go! .... Hi all, Toyin here, i'm floating over here from elcaminocentral and LS1LT1. Heres the skinny on me:
1984 El camino with a LT1 and 4L60E implant from a '94 Caprice "B" and have the 16188051 PCM. I swapped into the elky about 13 yrs ago and had the PCM flashed for removing the VATS, SMOG, O2's, EGR and i think maybe the tires/rims set to 15". i got it running enough for a couple trips up/down the street and that was it, then it sat up until about 3 yrs ago and after that came a frame off resto, slightly modified engine rebuild, paint job and etc. As of now i'm basically lacking 2 things, the knowledge to fine tune the PCM and to decide on what style of 235/50 or 60/17" rims to get. I would like to try and tune it myself and the last month i have gathered and installed the cable, tuner pro,ee hack, tuner CATS and the $ee def. file. i just got the CATS tuner operable yesterday and playing with everything to find out what makes what tick. i havent hooked up the cable yet to the OBD1 as i want to make sure i have enough knowledge to under stand what i'm looking at and definitely enough knowledge on making sure i dont accidentally erase or screw up the PCM. i would appreciate all the help and knowledge you all have in helping me get underway. you can follow my thread on LS1LT1 and thanks to COCOBOLO95 for help in getting set up and getting me this far. Thanks in advance all!

***sorry for the crazy fonts..IDK why i cant gett'em all the same

[dave w]

I fixed the fonts of your post.

It's a personal choice on which software you decide to use on your LT1 PCM; EE Hack or TunerCats. I personally use TunerCats to read and write to the LT1 PCM. I started working with TunerCats many years ago, and have not invested the time to learn EE Hack the LT1 PCM.


I use TunerCats to edit the binary file / .bin file / flash file that is programmed into the LT1 PCM.

EE Hack / EEX Definition is a good option also!

I use EE Hack / Trimalyzer for tuning the LT1.

dave w

[toyinhawaii]

I fixed the fonts of your post.

It's a personal choice on which software you decide to use on your LT1 PCM; EE Hack or TunerCats. I personally use TunerCats to read and write to the LT1 PCM. I started working with TunerCats many years ago, and have not invested the time to learn EE Hack the LT1 PCM.


I use TunerCats to edit the binary file / .bin file / flash file that is programmed into the LT1 PCM.

EE Hack / EEX Definition is a good option also!

I use EE Hack / Trimalyzer for tuning the LT1.

dave w

Hi Dave, thanks for fixing the fonts. so since i have heard from a few people now that the CATS tuner and $ee definition file is better to work with, i'll focus on learning that. Honestly i was trying to learn both and getting confused. i was watching the tunerpro video on utube for help in learning the CATS and right now i think i just want to learn what values are set on my PCM so when i see other bin files i can see how they are different. As i said about having it flashed before, i'm thinking that if i was to see the current settings of my PCM i would see the VATS, SMOG, O2's and EGR are turned off or in disabled mode. Would this be correct? Is having the O'2s off a good thing as far as keeping the engine tuned for fuel/air mixture ?

[dave w]

With EE Hack, there is the option of using the "Compare" feature to see the differences of a stock .bin file vs. a modified .bin file.

I recommend keeping the O2 sensors.

dave w

[toyinhawaii]

yea, it didnt seem to be a good thing considering i do feel i am burning a little lean from the smell of things. i did look over some threads on here and still learning the terminology. i tried to hook up the cable to the OBD1 as the tutorial said(tunerpro video) but i noticed his version is a CATS winflash and mine is a tuner. his tabs are files ,setup, tools, help. mine is files, tools, ecm,options and help and i cant follow along. the tutorial in my "help" tab >tuner help, is a little hard to follow. and after i open my bin file labled ASZD.bin the "table" tab becomes available but i get an error on all i select "spin32.ocx". is there a cats tutorial available to view other than the one i have.

[steveo]

since you paid perfectly good money for CATS tuner (a commercial package) i'd suggest contacting him to figure out why you're getting that error..? it shouldn't be doing that. you're probably just missing a library or maybe it's a compatibility issue with newer versions of windows as it's quite old software.

i tuned with tunercats for years. it works great. his flashing routine is really reliable. winflash and tunercat have the exact same flashing thing, it's just winflash is stand-alone for people that dont want to buy tunercat and use something else for bin editing.

not trying to sway you over to my stuff (not that i have anything to gain anyway and i'm sure tunercat will work fine for you) but one reason i started messing about with tunerpro definitions and started using tunerpro is that tunercat is really god damn awful at categorizing tables. it just has a giant menu with a bunch of tables, so to find everything you want, it's basically sifting through a list of text. since one of the most important parts about tuning software is locating the table you need to modify that always bugged me. tunerpro allows you to specify a categorized list of tables, so with tunerpro and my definition file you can have a list of fuel tables, a list of idle tables, a list of spark tables... also there's lots of info and tooltips for each table whereas with tunercat you're mostly on your own to figure out what something does. might want to give it a second shot. you can use all of these tools side by side.