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?

For your TBI ECM, you'll need a G2 from Moates as well.

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?

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

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

You could buy a BURN1, a G2, some chips, and a separate (serial) ALDL cable for cheaper, but you wouldn't have emulation.

Is the emulation worth the extra cost? Seems like it would be, at least to me. I like cool gadgets like that.

I'd say it is.

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.