I would do what was suggested above and use a laptop if you have one available. 
best place to get a scan tool?
Buy a cheap laptop for fifty bucks, it doesn't have to be fast just needs to be powered up and able to run a simple program. My cable was about 60 and the definition file to read the car was 30ish. So for under 150 you have your scan tool and the ability to reprogram your pcm when and if you wish to.
Now that sounds like a plan! I was figuring on a program to read codes and tune to be much higher than that.
Now that brings up my next question(s). Where's the best place to order a cable. And where to get the program?
Now that brings up my next question(s). Where's the best place to order a cable. And where to get the program?
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It can be difficult at first but once you get everything sorted out and you know how to use the software it isn't that bad. I don't do much tuning besides simple things personally but if you want it more for scanning the car I think you will be ok.
http://www.moates.net/aldu1-and-cabl....html?cPath=64 $80 for cable
http://www.andywhittaker.com/en-gb/ecu/freescan.aspx FREEscan - This will let you check trouble codes and datalog lots of parameters.
Although $100 datamaster is MUCH better that freescan.
http://www.tunercat.com/ This is to tune. Go to 'downloads', tuner 'add to cart' $70, and under 'ecm definition files' get a $EE definition file $20
Check craiglist and get any old decent laptop running windows with a usb.
In the future if you want to purchase an "aftermarket" tune, you won't have to mail out your pcm, you can do it all through email and load it in yourself. You'll be able to do easy stuff like tire changes, shift point changes, rev limiter and top speed limiter. I would pay someone to do the complicated stuff.
http://www.andywhittaker.com/en-gb/ecu/freescan.aspx FREEscan - This will let you check trouble codes and datalog lots of parameters.
Although $100 datamaster is MUCH better that freescan.
http://www.tunercat.com/ This is to tune. Go to 'downloads', tuner 'add to cart' $70, and under 'ecm definition files' get a $EE definition file $20
Check craiglist and get any old decent laptop running windows with a usb.
In the future if you want to purchase an "aftermarket" tune, you won't have to mail out your pcm, you can do it all through email and load it in yourself. You'll be able to do easy stuff like tire changes, shift point changes, rev limiter and top speed limiter. I would pay someone to do the complicated stuff.
