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Old Feb 12, 2005 | 09:05 PM
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Car: 94 ECSB Midnight Blue Z71
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What else would I need?

http://www.moates.net/product_info.p...products_id=54

besides this package from moates, to get into the PROM burning? I am going to building a 383 TBI and would like to do my own tuning, however w/ all the various pieces involved, what parts to get has gotten confusing. If i read it right, this package includes everything, software, hardware, etc, and all I need is the ZIF adapter?
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Old Feb 13, 2005 | 02:02 PM
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Car: '89 Trans Am WS6
Engine: 350 TPI
Transmission: T5WC
Axle/Gears: 3.08 posi
For your TBI ECM, you'll need a G2 from Moates as well.
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Old Feb 13, 2005 | 03:01 PM
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Right on, and this would complete the "package" so to speak necessary to tune? What about the emulators, does this package that capability, or is that another option entirely? The way I understand it, you plug the emulator into your engines computer, and it emulates the chip and allows you to make changes on the fly, and when you are done with that tuning session you can burn all the changes you made to a real chip and then pop that in?
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Old Feb 13, 2005 | 03:10 PM
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Car: '89 Trans Am WS6
Engine: 350 TPI
Transmission: T5WC
Axle/Gears: 3.08 posi
Yes, that would complete the package.

The AutoProm is everything you need in one:

Emulator
Chip Burner/Reader
ALDL Interface
3 Channel analog to digital data monitor and logger
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Old Feb 13, 2005 | 03:13 PM
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excellent, is this basically the best route I could take? Or are there other options that are cheaper and/or offer more features? Seems like this thing pretty much does it all which is awesome
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Old Feb 13, 2005 | 04:40 PM
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Car: '89 Trans Am WS6
Engine: 350 TPI
Transmission: T5WC
Axle/Gears: 3.08 posi
You could buy a BURN1, a G2, some chips, and a separate (serial) ALDL cable for cheaper, but you wouldn't have emulation.
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Old Feb 13, 2005 | 04:45 PM
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Is the emulation worth the extra cost? Seems like it would be, at least to me. I like cool gadgets like that.
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Old Feb 13, 2005 | 05:08 PM
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I'd say it is.
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Old Feb 13, 2005 | 05:12 PM
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i use a burn1 and a seperate cable it works very well but it takes a few min to burn a chip and put it in even when u get proficent at it. also having your ecm on the floor all the time when u are tunning gets annyoing. i would go the emulation route i think thats what im going to do.
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