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Old Dec 15, 2012 | 03:32 PM
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Default Which tuner cable Moates or Tunercat?

If you guys were going to buy a new cable today, what would you buy?

Tunercat or Moates?
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Old Dec 15, 2012 | 05:17 PM
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Both of them are good quality cables.
The cheapest way is a Moates cable and get tunerpro for $30 and winflash for $19.95

I have a TC Y cable for both OBD-I and II cables to tune/datalog 93 to 95 LT1
I use it with both Tunerpro and Tunercats tuner program to access all available parameters.
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Old Dec 15, 2012 | 07:06 PM
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We use Moates cable and software but both are good
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Old Dec 16, 2012 | 11:11 AM
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I'm guessing LT1?

Moates cable with both TunerPro and TunerCAT RTT.

As far as LT1's go the 92-93 cars are my favorite to tune because you can use an emulator to update tables on the fly! Full time SD as well.
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Old Dec 16, 2012 | 01:02 PM
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Originally Posted by LSxPwrDZ
As far as LT1's go the 92-93 cars are my favorite to tune because you can use an emulator to update tables on the fly! Full time SD as well.
True. I have an Ostrich and it makes very easy and fun tuning all chipped cars.
The sweet thing is it works with LT1 cars, TBI trucks and many vehicles
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Old Dec 16, 2012 | 03:39 PM
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Yeah I started off in Hondas way back in the day and was very useful for tuning them as well.
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