I just purchased a superchips 2715 tuner for my suburban (I know, it's a handheld), and I got to looking at the cable. It is an OBD2 style connector with a DB9 on the programmer side. Can I get this to work on my Camaro? Also, I wanted to try out Tunercat, as I am going to be getting headers, and I want to squeeze a little bit more out of the car. What would be the best things to modify in order to get a little bit more power?

 

The superchips cable won't work even though the OBD2 end is the same. You'll need a different cable for tunercat. Check out AKMcables or Moats.net and you'll understand what i'm talking about. There is a converter on those cables where as the superchips does not have that. As for the tune, for basically stock or minor bolt on's, most tweek the timing a bit (more advance) and the WOT fuel table to lean it out a bit. Most cars run on the rich side out of the box, so leaning them out a bit (usually around the 13.0:1 range for max power) helps out.

Ken R.

 

That's right, I did forget about the conversion that has to take place. Oh well, I'll have to do it the right way!
Is Tunercat pretty easy to change those settings with?

 

TC is very easy and user friendly. I've been using it for years and like it a lot. Lots of experience here on the board with TC. Get yourself some scanning software to go along with it (Datamaster or Freescan are used a lot here), and start tuning. A wideband is prefered so you don't have to get on a dyno, but once you know what your doing, i'd bet you can get your A/F's dialed in spot on with 1 hour worth of dyno time. Any info you need has probably been talked about or explained in this forum, so the "Search" function will be a good friend here.

Ken R.

 

That's good info, thanks!