Re: New "B" with questions
bjk_typhoon said:
Hello, I am a new member and would like to apologize for the some what long first message. I am some what of a new Ty owner (1993 Typhoon with 72k) as of Jan 05. Recently my stock turbo took a poop (the factory plastic air box broke off and went for a ride thru the turbo). So when it came to to replace I decided to step it up a notch. I ordered a "stage 3" kit from ATR. The install went fairly smooth and I just finished up last night. The first (and hopefully only) issue that I have is that I am constantly over boosting. No matter where I set the needle valve (boost controller) when I hit the 3000k to 3500k rmp range I start doing the KR shuffle. Now I know the first thing that everyone will ask is where is your datamaster info. There in is my next question, what is an expensive alternative to buying a laptop to run the datamaster program. I currently do not own a lap top and even though this may sound stupid I was wandering if the was a version that could run on my PDA Phone (treo 600). If not is there another solution that you could leave in the vehicle that doesn't look goofy? I know go ahead and make fun I'm ready for the embarrassment.
Brian, welcome to the board. There's no need to apologize or prepare for embarrasment. I'm not familiar with the Stage 3 Kit from ATR so I was wondering if you could outline what parts it included? Your solution may be as simple as adjusting the wastegate arm if you have an internal wastegate rod, otherwise if it's an external there may be an adjustment nut that has the same effect but my knowledge on external wastegates is very limited so I can't say. You definitely took a step in the right direction asking for help when you noticed Knock retard.
As for your lack of laptop, I was in the exact same situation when I got my truck. I borrowed a hand held scan tool to begin with and then borrowed someone's laptop to get a few initial files until I could finally get my own. You can get used laptops DIRT cheap nowadays, people are throwing them away. All you need is a Pentium 133MHz with 32MB RAM or better. Honest to god that's all you need. I can record 4 rec/sec on that laptop and its what I used with the first few years of my truck. I tried a Pentium 120 and it was too slow. An old laptop can be had for less than $100 complete with charger and CD Rom drive depending where you look. I scored an ultra tiny 500MHz 128MB RAM laptop for free from a friend (just by luck.) The MOST IMPORTANT THING if you get a laptop is, make SURE it has a real serial port. Most new laptops are USB-only which is a Bitch to try and connect to Datamaster. Most all old ones had a real serial port to be used for old Palm Pilots or Serial Mouse's etc. It looks like a 9 pin rectangle/trapezoid shape port. If you have to choose between two laptops, get the one with the serial port!
Hope this helps, now that my post is longer you don't need to feel bad about yours anymore. :lol: Oh and the TTS Datamaster gauge you looked at, on the page it said it was only for 99+ trucks.
