I need a 97! It is still an OBDII. ven my wife's old 96 Suburban had OBDII.

It is for my truck that tows my hot rods, and I HATE the shift points.

So if this supports back to older OBDII why can;t the other guys easily?

 

It's not that they can't, its just that it's not cost efficient for them. There is not that much demand for it and it is very time consuming to map the different, older PCMs. The time pr $ is better spent on the new PCM that are coming out. It sucks, but that's the way it is

Sounds like for what you want, might be best to get the jet tuner, since its the only option. FWIW, you can buy a scan only V1 EFILive for $250 (which can be upgraded to a full tune version via email at a later date), so you would have a scanner and tuner for around $650

A lot of these guys hate jet, but when its the only option, that makes it the worst and the best.

 

I wonder if efilive is able to scan enhanced parameters on 96-97's?

 

EFILive is going to be able to tune any GM from 96 and newer, 4 cyl and 6 cyl included, in the near future from what I heard.

 

I thought they, EFILive, recently annouced that support for 96 up vortecs is now availible.

 

98's are available, 96-97 use a different pcm.

 

Thanks guys. Being new at this computer stuff by being able to "scan" do you mean data logging? What's the different in the two types scanner/tuner?

 

A Tuner tunes

A scanner scans

A tuner package or suite or whatever usually encorporates both.

Without a GOOD scanner, tuning software isnt worth much at all

 

Unless EFILive or Hptuners comes out with something that will work for you, I would just use the tunercat/jet program. It sounds like it would work OK for what you are looking to do. Talk to James B. on this forum, he uses tunercat on his Tahoe and could probably give you some advice.

 

You still didn't define a scanner program, what is it scanning? Is it the data logging portion vs just changing parameters that a tuner can do? I know HP Tuner can do both. But unless you are at the track or a chassis dyno som eof that is really guess work also.

I got the old Hypertech for it which wasn't cheap at that time and it's basically a worthless tuner.They could for more $$ custom tune it for mods, but their "plain" tune was so bad I'd hate to rely on it for anything. Be neat to hack it and use it as an interface, but WAY beyond my skills.