Quarterhorse tuner for T-Bird???

[Green96]

A friend at work owns my old 96 Thunderturd (a green one...get it Green96). When he purchased it I told him that he could have all of my tunes for it, but I was keeping the tuner for the Marauder. He picked up a X-cal 2 and put in one of the tunes (an old Zack tune). He likes it enough that he cannot stand going back to stock, but he wants to tweak stuff himself. He keeps asking me about Quarterhorse tuners and what I think of them.

I have absolutely no experience with them, and do not know what to tell him. Any body have any experience? His main problem with the Zack tune is the same problem I had with it and every other tune other than stock. The car pings like crazy at WOT when it shifts into second. He want to be able to pull timing out until it stops, and maybe change the shift points a little. Anything that you guys can share would be great.

A little about the car in case anyone wants to help track down the ping (other than changing timing). It is a 96 4.6L 2V stock other than 1 heat range colder copper plugs and a K&N filtercharger. It still has the NPI heads and intake and the extremely low optional rear end (3.27). The trans has a j-mod, and ~2400 stall converter.

[Blown3.8]

The QH is completely AWESOME!!!!

Having the ability to change things on the fly is the best.

He just needs to make sure someone makes a definition file for the T bird computer before he purchases.

[Vortech347]

I use binary editor with a tweecer, also have tuned a few foxes with QH and binary editor. It is amazing stuff. I love it.

Eectuning.org is the bomb

[Green96]

I am assuming that the definition file is not really a base tune? Are their guides for setting up the base tune? He has a lot of experience with various projects, but none setting up a tune.

I worked with one of my early x-cal tunes when you could tweak them with SCT software, but I was only adjusting the shift points to match my preferences.

[Blown3.8]

I don't think there are any templates for injectors and maf's, spark tables like SCT has.

If he wants to use the tune that is in the computer now the QH can suck it out of the EEC then he can go from there. If its on a chip you can get the J Bird and pull the tune from the chip.

The definition is the MAP for the peramaters in the tune.

[Vortech347]

Yup, he can actually suck the tune out and edit it to his liking.

The files you need are easily available on eecanalyzer.net. You can actually use binary editor and build a tune. Just can't load it until you register it. And its not this closed door SCT ******** either. Its all open source.

[Green96]

I think that I will suggest that he suck out the tune he is using, put it back to stock and suck out the stock tune also. That should give him the upper and lower bounds for the timing since the Z tune has to much timing and he will not want to go below the stock timing. Then he can tweak the shift points from the Z tune to suite him.