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Old Apr 17, 2017 | 02:48 PM
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I have two 98 Camaro PCM's; one came from a manual trans car and the other from an automatic; the problem; I put them together and now I don't know the difference between them; which is the manual trans one and which is the automatic car one. How can I differentiate them??????
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They are interchangeable, they the same, only the calibration is different.
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They are interchangeable, they the same, only the calibration is different.
But how I know which one is correct for an A4 car vs a manual one? I'm planning to sell them but if someone request the manual one, how I know which one is the correct, so doesn't have any problem?
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Without plugging them in and downloading the tune out I dont know of a way, thats how we check a 98 pcm.
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Without plugging them in and downloading the tune out I dont know of a way, thats how we check a 98 pcm.
Thanks.
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Other than reading the tune and checking it in the tuning software, the only other way to know is to hook them in a A4 car and test it.
Of course the manual PCM will not work and the transmission will go to limp mode and won't shift.
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