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oldcarguy85
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Hey,
So I'm finally building a v8 project i've wanted to do for a while.  I bought a 95 BMW 325is, an LQ9 6.0 chevy truck engine (same family as LS1) and am working on locating a t56 6 speed.  Put it all together and i'll have a sweet, nice handling, very fast car!

Questions is about tuning.  The people talking about these engines aren't exactly the most technically sophisticated people.  There doesn't appear to be any open-source or free tuning software whatsoever, and no ebay cables ( Sad ).  Anyone ever done any reverse engineering on these things?  I can't imagine this is anywhere near as complicated as, say, MED9.  I really don't want to pay some idiot $500 for some crappy tuning software when i just really need to figure out a way to read/write the ecu.

Anyway, thanks for any help!!  I know this is totally off topic for this forum.

-Jordan
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« Reply #1 on: June 23, 2014, 06:53:27 PM »
Quote from: oldcarguy85 on June 23, 2014, 05:17:36 PM
Hey,
So I'm finally building a v8 project i've wanted to do for a while.  I bought a 95 BMW 325is, an LQ9 6.0 chevy truck engine (same family as LS1) and am working on locating a t56 6 speed.  Put it all together and i'll have a sweet, nice handling, very fast car!

Questions is about tuning.  The people talking about these engines aren't exactly the most technically sophisticated people.  There doesn't appear to be any open-source or free tuning software whatsoever, and no ebay cables ( Sad ).  Anyone ever done any reverse engineering on these things?  I can't imagine this is anywhere near as complicated as, say, MED9.  I really don't want to pay some idiot $500 for some crappy tuning software when i just really need to figure out a way to read/write the ecu.

Anyway, thanks for any help!!  I know this is totally off topic for this forum.

-Jordan

What you want is tunercat.

Domestic (US) is easy. If Motronic had a  baby brother that got hit on the head very hard.....
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« Reply #2 on: June 23, 2014, 09:08:49 PM »
Quote from: ddillenger on June 23, 2014, 06:53:27 PM
What you want is tunercat.

Domestic (US) is easy. If Motronic had a  baby brother that got hit on the head very hard.....

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Please do not ask me for tunes. I'm here to help people make their own.

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« Reply #3 on: June 24, 2014, 04:02:49 AM »
What?? Hodor??

I think tunercat is no longer affordable. Jet tonic or someone bought their package and it's $500 now
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« Reply #4 on: June 24, 2014, 04:34:00 AM »
I would use standalone on such conversion as it might be PITA to use GM ECM with other controllers from BMW.
BTW. E36 with V8 does not handle that nicely, I would assume it will be even worse with heavy truck engine.
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« Reply #5 on: June 24, 2014, 05:21:52 AM »
Quote from: tjwasiak on June 24, 2014, 04:34:00 AM
I would use standalone on such conversion as it might be PITA to use GM ECM with other controllers from BMW.
BTW. E36 with V8 does not handle that nicely, I would assume it will be even worse with heavy truck engine.
I figure it HAS to be at least better than a camaro. My last v8 car was a 650hp s10 blazer, so it will surely handle better then that!
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« Reply #6 on: June 24, 2014, 09:22:31 AM »
Quote from: nyet on June 23, 2014, 09:08:49 PM
HODOR

That had me dying laughing.
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« Reply #7 on: February 20, 2015, 06:46:58 PM »
What about HP Tuners --> http://www.hptuners.com/index.php?
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