OBD-I Tuning Cable
09-18-2009, 11:23 PM
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OBD-I Tuning Cable Whats the best cable I can buy? My car is a 1994, and I want to also purchase Tunercats and learn to tune the car myself.
Ion @ madz28 suggested a Moates cable, but I have seen others on the market.
Any personal experiences?
Ion @ madz28 suggested a Moates cable, but I have seen others on the market.
Any personal experiences?
09-18-2009, 11:40 PM
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I got mine from http://akmcables.com/
Shipped pretty fast and haven't had any issue's with it, and it's a long cable I can do most of the work outside the car with it hooked into my laptop.
Shipped pretty fast and haven't had any issue's with it, and it's a long cable I can do most of the work outside the car with it hooked into my laptop.
09-19-2009, 10:50 AM
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I can't see how an RS232 serial interface would be any more reliable than a Universal Serial Bus (USB) connection. RS232 and IEEE Parallel ports are going away, and USB is replacing both. So, given a choice of which to start with, I would choose USB for forward compatibility.
09-19-2009, 12:05 PM
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My laptop does have a serial port, if it were anymore reliable than a USB I would be more than happy to use it, but I also trust USB.
Thankfully DELL still puts them on their Latitude business laptops so I can consider both options.
What options do we have for OBD1 apart from Tunercats?
Thankfully DELL still puts them on their Latitude business laptops so I can consider both options.
What options do we have for OBD1 apart from Tunercats?
