Does anyone have any experience yet with the CobraRTP MotronicRT R6 emulators? I see BoostedNW started selling them recently, and markets it as a replacement for the Ostrich now that Moates is out of business. Was curious if anyone's used one yet and what they think. Have a 1228746 ECM that I was planning on using it with, if it's worked well for others.

https://boostednw.com/motronicrt

 

Won't work in the '8746 ECM...

RBob.

 

Oh, good to know. What's the difference in the 8746 that this won't work with it? Still just starting to dive in to prom & tuning; I vaguely remember seeing the 8746 isn't the best for tuning, but since it's all I have right now was hoping I could use an emulator with it.

 

It doesn't support the 2732 EPROM size.

RBob.

 

Oh I see that now, thanks RBob. Are there any emulators that do support 2732 besides the Ostrich that's now scarce to find, or am I better off going another route?

 

What about Transtronics Pocket Romulator?

https://secure.transtronics.com/EPROM%20Emulator.html

 

I forgot about the Pocket Romulator, thanks! Only bad part about that is the FTDI/USB chip isn't integrated, but that's pretty minor.

What's the difference between the Pocket Romulator 1 and 2?

On another note - looking at BoostedNW's site, was a socket booster required for the Ostrich on 24-pin TBI applications like this? Made me wonder if they could eventually do a similar setup with the Motronic and a socket booster for 24-pin app's.

 

Not sure about the differences. You'd have to call them.

I ran a Romulator years ago on my 7730 before the ostrich came out and it worked pretty good.

 

I reached out to Jamie at BoostedNW (US distributor for the Motronic) and he was confident about using it with a G2 and emulating as another chip with offsets. Thoughts?

 

Bump! Has anyone used one of these yet?

 

Moates is back up again, BTW...

 

I still have plans to try this setup.. I have all the components I think I should need, but got a bit busy with other things on the car so I haven't gotten around to it yet. Just need to solder in the adapter and do some testing once I get the car back together.

 

I finally got around to a test run, and so far so good. I haven't had a chance to test vss etc, as I don't have the transmission back in yet. But so far it functions well with offsets, similar to using an Ostrich.

 

Won't work in the '8746 ECM...