July "Hot Rod"

[John Hess]

Actually, I have had the opportunity to spend several hours with Steve 
Cole of The Turbo Shop (Mastertune and Mastertune Pro)  The 
Mastertune, at $299 allows one to change the mapping for a goodly 
portion of ONE Memcal.  He delivers this one specific to a memcal you 
send him (or the download of the memcal).  Notable absent from this 
system is idle speed adjustments (not to bad if you know what to look 
for and how to calculate them separately).  The Mastertune Pro, on the 
other hand, does just about all functions on all the GM PROMS. 
 Unfortunately, it cost $2500.  This is a little bit steep for the 
weekend hobbiest.

Be on the lookout for an ALDL monitor system (Shades of Diacom) that 
will hook up to your laptop.  Steve indicated that it will target the 
$299 market.  The Pre-Beta I saw has all the functions and facility of 
the Diacom Plus.  This one is due out any time now.  I understand that 
it has been Beta testing for several months, now.

As for infomercial...I, for one, was pretty impressed with Steve's 
effort (TTS).

Understand, though, that this package is not going to fix your problem 
by itself.  You need to know the fundamentals of mapping.  As for 
whether or not they are worth it, you will have to determine that for 
yourself, understanding that they are the only games in town, that I 
am aware of (ASM and TTS).


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From:  Jody Shapiro[SMTP:jshapiro at bit-net.com]
Sent:  Thursday, August 07, 1997 9:26 AM
To:  diy_efi at coulomb.eng.ohio-state.edu
Subject:  Re: July "Hot Rod"

On Wed, 6 Aug 1997, Jennifer Rose wrote:

> At 09:55 PM 8/6/97 -0500, you wrote:
> >For an EFI novice such as myself, there was a great article in the 
July
> >"Hot Rod" about hacking the proms in GM computers and a company 
selling a
> >software package to assist in remapping a prom.
> >
> >Did anyone else see it?
> >
> >Joe Boucher
> >'81 TBI Suburban   '70 RS/SS Camaro
> >
> >
> >Hi Joe
>
> 	Yes - read the article - feel it was mainly infomerchal for the 
software
> programs. My .02$ worth.
>
> Vance

Agreed...  FWIW, it's the CARPROM software that Arizona Speed & 
Marine
sells (www.azspeed-marine.com)

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