88 Caprice w/troubles

Bill Shaw bshaw at connix.com
Thu Dec 9 02:45:00 GMT 1999


Hi guys,

My wife's 88 Caprice wagon (carbed 'Y' Olds motor with a 8330
ECU running a ADAY bin) is showing an intermittent SES light.  Within
a couple minutes of starting it'll come on,  then be on for a couple of minutes,
then go off again for a couple of minutes,  repeating as long as the car's
running.  It's running real rich,  but doesn't set any trouble codes.  P.O.
said they'd taken it to mechanics who swapped ECUs a couple of times and
were stumped by it.  They concluded it was an intermittent break somewhere
in the harness and told the P.O. it'd cost more than the car is worth to fix.

I just got Andrew's ALDL interface working and I intend to watch the ALDL
stream and see if something changes drastically when the SES changes.  I
haven't found any references to this particular ECU on the web.  Is this a 160
baud aldl or 8192 baud?  The only software that I've found for 160 baud is
Peter's ALDL.exe  which looks like it may do the trick for me,  but is there
any other 160 baud compatible software out there I should be looking at?

Also,  while I'm asking about this car,  will an intake from a SBC fit this Olds
motor?  If so which ones? It's pathetically anemic,  and crying for an upgrade.

Any comments or suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Bill




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