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Old Jun 28, 2010 | 08:48 PM
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new bee here

my question is i have a pcm chip from alvin in right now, it runs rich. So i want to try tuning it myself try to find some one to tune it for me but hard to find, then the ones that tune won't tune our years . so i just got every thing i need to get started . so which chip do i make my changes in the performance chip or the or the chip that is under the blue plastic cover. this is for a 93 lt1

Just not sure where to start when i have two chips.

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Old Jun 29, 2010 | 08:47 AM
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Originally Posted by vett40
so i just got every thing i need to get started .
What did you get ?

Originally Posted by vett40
do i make my changes in the performance chip or the or the chip that is under the blue plastic cover.
Unless you are doing it the old fashioned ( and very slow ) way of erasing the stock chip , you use an adapter in the ECM to mount a reprogrammable chip.
Remove chip from adapter , install in your burner, load new program , reinstall in adapter , drive car.

Is your chip from Alvin in an adapter like this?
http://www.moates.net/product_info.p...products_id=32
In which case you carefully remove the chip to install in your burner for programming .You would download and save the tune that is on it first as a back up reference.
If you write a new tune on chip whatever is there is lost

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Old Jun 29, 2010 | 03:33 PM
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i have data master, tunerpro/rt. a transonics pocket programmer and a ultra violet eraser from transonics. also have a aldl cable.the chip i have from alvin is on a adaptor the chip is a sst chip. i also have a chip from hypertech from when i had a 160 degree thermostat.i don't know if it is reprogramable. i tried putting the hypertech chip in the pocket programmer to see if i could read what was on it, could not. it could be me doing something wrong. i ran data master yesterday i have a few dtc codes to fix first .64 right o2 sensor lean ,43 esc failer 55 fuel system lean.
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Old Jun 29, 2010 | 08:35 PM
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Don't know what style Hypercrap use but Transonic unit and eraser will only work on the old style EPROM chips.

The SST chip (EEPROM ) needs one of these to reprogram , much faster
http://www.moates.net/product_info.p...roducts_id=197
A simple as loading a file on a floppy disk ; put chip in burner , delete file , load new file , done

Some reading; Section 5
http://www.thirdgen.org/promintro
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