Need help with Laptop tuning.

drumvudu · Mar 23, 2007

Does anyone know if you can tune a 89 2.3L Mustang LX with a laptop? If so, what all do I need to buy? I mean, I've done this before with a fuel injected Porsche so I am familiar with the procedure just not the specifics on this car. I assume that I need a connector for the under hood plugin, a laptop(obviously), and the software. What I need to know is where to get the plug and the software for this car. I have looked a little and had no luck whatsoever. I certainly can't be the only one wanting to do this considering how popular this motor is. Any and all help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you so much...//peter

Red_LX · Mar 23, 2007

Erm...

You can't do any "tuning" on the stock computer with a laptop. You have to have some kind of aftermarket standalone system.

Shawneebear93 · Mar 23, 2007

I'm not trying to poke fun or anything, but you can't really compare a Porsche to a Fox 4 cylinder Mustang.

snake109 · Mar 23, 2007

you would need an aftermarket PCM system to do any tuning. somthing like this http://www.ontronic.com/ just do a search for engine managment systems and youll find plenty

65ShelbyClone · Mar 23, 2007

The http://www.moates.net J3 tuner is the only sub-$100 option I know of. I'm not sure if it's compatible with the 2.3 NA EEC, though.

This was talked about several weeks ago. The general concensus was that unless the engine is going to be fairly radical, it's not really worth the trouble of tuning the EEC to the nth degree.

drumvudu · Mar 24, 2007

OK guys, I missunderstood

I was under the impresion that the ECU in the mustang was "tunable" to the point that certain ignition/timing/injection parameters were adjustable via aftermarket software and a laptop much like my megasquirt system on the Porsche. Obviously I didn't think it was "as configurable" as the megasquirt but I did think that some things were adjustable right from Ford by going that route. Again, i apologize for the ignorance. //drum

Shawneebear93 · Mar 24, 2007

drumvudu said:
I was under the impresion that the ECU in the mustang was "tunable" to the point that certain ignition/timing/injection parameters were adjustable via aftermarket software and a laptop much like my megasquirt system on the Porsche. Obviously I didn't think it was "as configurable" as the megasquirt but I did think that some things were adjustable right from Ford by going that route. Again, i apologize for the ignorance. //drum

I wasn't trying to come off as condescending, there's no need to apologize. I was merely commenting.

vegeta_nc · Mar 24, 2007

Is there something like this for after a turbo swap?

Stinger · Mar 27, 2007

There is no system available to tune 2.3 n/a ecu's, there are a couple different methods to tune the 2.3 Turbo ecu's.

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