Im definitely no electrical/software guy. All I know is that with the Ostrich, the upload is seamless... you dont even notice any stumbles or anything with the engine.

 

[QUOTE=Larry;6581553]Oh good to know, thanks.

 

If you have some suggestions on how you think that can be accomplished, let me know and will check it out.[/QUOTE]

One change I would like to see is being able to set the minimum rpm for closed loop. It has open loop idle and open loop cruise but with my setup it runs great at great at 750 rpms @ 13.5 afr and at @14.7 above 1200-1500 rpms. I run open loop all the time now.

 

Thank you. I'm sure I will be getting in touch with you at some point. I have to go through all the ECMs that I now have to see what all is there.

 

Also with the EBL you can upload 8 different calibrations and seamlessly switch between them while driving with a touch to the pc screen.

 

A little update on things... I finally got around to unloading the truck with all the Dynamic EFI/EBL equipment. Took six hours to go through everything and sort out the stuff that was for now going into storage and what I could use or needed to use in the near future. Believe me when I say there is a lot of stuff to go through. Scott and Bob can confirm this. I have one very large container more than full with just small electronic parts, chips, tubes of chips, racks of chips and already programed PICs which was icing on the cake for me along with rolls of SM parts etc... My engineering team and I are going to go through all that stuff in the near future and get that all sorted out. It will be a little while before I can start getting the EBL out again, but lucky for me, the company Bob R was using in Denver to make the EBL PCBs is also has a company here 12 miles from me that I have an appointment with to discuss the creation of the boards. Things are coming together, but it will be slow and I get that. Lots to do yet and tons of schematics and drawings to look over.

Here is a preview of a new test box we are making that will also check CFI ECMs. We are getting there. Enjoy!

 

That will come in very handy 👍

 

that's good news.


out curiosity what was or. is the biggest market for the EBL. the p4 for tpi, or the flash for tbi trucks and or rv market. which honestly I didn't know was a thing until it was talked about here

 

I want to guess before the official answer. I'm going to say the Flash II EBL. Because before his untimely death he had quit selling the SFI-6 & P4 EBL. Both or which broke my little heart because I wanted both. The Flash II EBL has such a broad market. You got 1987 TBI trucks, the 1988 to 1995 TBI trucks, vans & SUVs, and the TBI D-body cars, some Caddies with the TBI engines, the 1988 to 1992 TBI F-body cars, then your RV guys, plus the MAF TPI F-body cars letting you get rid of the MAF, burn-off relays, and 9th CSI system. Then the CFI cars like the new owner is into. Then you got your dual 2bbl TBI setups & 4bbl TBI systems. Probably a bunch of other stuff too I can't think of.

 

Yes, The TBI and CFI for sure with the Flash II. I have looked at some drawings for the Port Mod as well which "may" be a player as well down the road a little. There is just so much to go through, it's just about overwhelming. Bob had accumulated SO much stuff over the decades to go through....Damn!

 

I also agree that the "real-time tuning" would be a useful feature. I had a 165 ECM with an Ostrich 2.0 and you could seamlessly send a new .bin file to it with no stumble/issues. My bird will shut off if I'm idling and flash a tune to the EBL FLASH II. Also using the Port mod in this case.

 

The port mod is definitely a interesting beast. Lots of factory ECM board modifications beyond just installing the extra little port mod board.

I tried swapping port mod from a dead Port Modded EBL over into a non-port mod EBL and was unsuccessful. Even after studying the port modded factory ECM and trying to make all the same changes. Ended up having to swap the main EBL boards out between a non-port mod ecm into the port mod ECM.

Buccaneer, would it be any help to you for troubleshooting to have a dead EBL board? I think I held onto it but would have to double check.

 

I know you're busy sorting thru everything, but I've been sitting here looking thru tunerpro datalogger and comparing to the wud. A thought-if the wud allowed you to upload the s_ajup etc and data log within the wud-don;t know if it's even posible but sure would be awesome!

 

I didn't realize the p4 was discontinued, I did notice the Buick v6 was.
​​​​​​so yeah, that makes sense. only good plug and play tbi setup.

I hope my P4 lasts a long time haha.

 

I'm sure I'm missing something here, but the WUD already does Data Logging. When using the EBL Flash II, you don't Data Log via TunerPro, only WUD and then Playback.

 

I may have misremembered the P4 being discontinued. I do remember it being out of stock for a long time after the SFI-6 was discontinued and not seeing it come back into stock again. I might have just put 2 + 2 together and in my mind figured he was probably going to discontinue it too.

Archive.org, April 20th 2024, DynamicEFI.com - EBL P4 Flash

 

@Buccaneer You might want to see about getting the dynamicefi.com domain name back and pointing it to your website. I'd sure there are an untold number of links to the Dynamic EFI website all over the internet and it now points to a Uzbekistan gambling website.

The estate should have preserved the website and domain name until the company was sold

 

I did not purchase the domain since it would have caused even more paperwork, cost and time. Neither parties wanted to go through that. If I don't have it, that is fine with me actually. It's not something that I just can't live without. LOL, I see that it is now a gabbling site out of country. I guess that's one way to drive future customers to a site. I may inquire with GoDaddy about this?

 

I was thinking more about the thousands of posts on forums and Facebook over the past decade or so with links to dynamicefi.com and someone thinks "This system sounds cool. I'll check this out." then click the link and get plopped onto a scummy looking Uzbek gambling website and think the EBL is dead and the company is out of business instead of a landing page on Xfire Performance - The New Home of Dynamic EFI's EBL Line of ECMs.

Might be a good way to drive customers to your business.

 

I'm so glad to hear that the legacy that RBob created will continue on!!!! Congratulations! I'm sure it wasn't easy.


If I were to suggest anything for moving forward, set up a YouTube channel to go over different functions and common settings to adjust. e.g. VE learning with NB/WB, SA, deceleration fueling adjustments.


PS. We spoke over the phone last year and briefly discussed the difficulties with the purchase. Glad to see everything worked out!

 

Just joining in to say I'm excited for this. Although I think I have a funky one-year only 1988 LO3 ECM.

 

@Buccaneer

One thing I did a year or so ago was go through the v42 xdf for Flash and add every parameters description from the documentation files into the xdf. That way in tunerpro you can hover over each parameter and the description will pop up. Might be worth implementing with future versions. See attached.

 

That is something WAY down the road since it is going to take a fair amount of time to get organized with all the stuff from Bob. I think most of that is covered in the documentation that Bob put out about the EBL for tuning section, but I may be wrong. I haven't looked at all that stuff for a long time. I get what your saying though, thanks.

 

Not sure what ECM you have, but I believe you can also use a 1227747 in your car as well? Not a 100% fir sure at this point though.

 

Dambomb6608,

Wow!!! This is awesome!! I'm guessing this would work for anyone?

 

You would need to be on the latest firmware and updates to be using the V42 XDF. And of course be using Flash/Flash II not the other EBLs.

 

I still have all my AIR intact. Will the 7747 operate all that? I have considered deleting the AIR, going with a modern converter and using a NON-AIR truck base tune with a 7747 but I'm not to that point just yet.

 

I am using the Flash II for my c4 vette. How would I go about getting the latest firmware and updates to make the V42 XDF file work? I would really like to use it so I can better understand what each value does.

 

I pulled all the files off the website before it went down. Follow this link. The 4.7 firmware works with V42

https://www.thirdgen.org/forums/diy-...down-site.html

 

Yesterday, I finally had time to actually boot up Bobs production PC and start going through all the files. WOW! There is a ton of files, drawings, code, etc to go through. Not only did I make a backup of that drive, but also pulled certain folders off for my engineer to go over and start sorting things out. I still have a huge container for electronic parts to go through and sort. It's a bit puzzling why he has some things, but this is decades of parts that he has collected for a ton of projects. I have racks of PIC/chips, not opened, brand new PICs which we discussed last night what they may have been potentially used for and came across some drawings that maybe Bob was going to create some new stuff? What was he thinking? Some of the filing system Bob setup doesn't make a lot of sense to me, but I'm sure it made perfect sense to him. I would have setup a completely different system to keep track of versions, files to those versions etc.

I'm also waiting to hear back from the PCB company about some Gerber files to see if they still have the current files pertaining to the EBL/BOM. I'm still looking for that current list. I did however find an older list and trying to match that up with newer EBL PCBs. There is still a ton of work to be done before production starts to ensure we have the right versions of everything. Stay tuned for more info as I move forward.

 

So stoked to see Bob's legacy being carried on, wish I woulda gotten into PROM tuning earlier so I could have chatted with him and learned a thing or 20... thank you for picking up the torch, can't wait to see what comes out from here!

 

I just received mail from the PBC company that Bob was dealing with and they gave me a list of files that they had on file for him. It appears that he ordered a batch of EBL Flash II boards three months before he passed. The crazy thing is that that ver number seems newer than what I have found so far, not sure why. I have a long way to go to get to the bottom of things. Just more pieces of the puzzle.

 

Ahhh... configuration control...

One of the engineering 10 Commandments!!

 

Im glad the legend lives on

 

Learnt from the thread