Ground loops, or why power inverters can fry things
Quick Explanation / TL;DR: / READ ME If you have called to ask for help, one of the things we often ask you is, “Are you using a power inverter to power your laptop? Do you have your laptop plugged in...
View ArticleTurbo Mopar 85-93
We don’t have a lot of experience with these vehicles but they have a decent community providing tools for tuning the factory ECMs. Many of the ECMs can directly use 28 pin EPROMs like the SST27SF512...
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About the “Data Trace” feature of our chip emulators
Introduction The ‘Data trace’ feature of our emulators is probably one of the most misunderstood features. Trace is intended to give you some idea of what portions of an emulated ROM are being used by...
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88-89 Fox Body V8 MAF oddballs: A9S / 8LD
Introduction The Fox Body Mustang switched to using a Mass Air Flow meter to measure airflow in 1988 in California. Box codes “A9S” and “8LD” are known examples. Uses TFI distributor, sequential...
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Ford – Speed Density ECMs
Introduction The first EFI ECMs used by Ford were speed-density featuring a MAP sensor and either a manual or hydraulically shifted automatic (C4/C6/AOD/etc) transmission along with electronically...
View Article85 Corvette TPI 1226870
Introduction Unfortunately, the 1226870 is an oddball one-year one-model ECM that was only used on the 1985 corvette. It is for a TPI setup with an electronically controlled distributor and features...
View ArticleEnd Of Life Products
While we try to produce and support products for as long as we can, we can’t continue to make things forever. Often, product changes are prompted by the components required to build a product no...
View ArticleTroubleshooting: BURN2 Verification Failed
If you receive the dreaded “Verification Failed” message after trying to program a chip with the BURN2, there are only a few possible reasons. Fake chips. There are lots of fake 27SF512 chips floating...
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Honda Engine Sim
Introduction The Honda Engine Sim was introduced to allow interactive bench testing of Honda ECUs. It supplies the signals from the distributor and many sensors so that an ECU can be fooled into...
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F3v2
Overview The F3v2 is a simple chip for EEC-based Ford ECUs (~86-04) allowing the stock program to be replaced with a tune of your choice. This unit was introduced in 2016 and replaces the prior F3...
View ArticleFord Tuning: Getting Started with Moates Hardware
Chapter 1: Introduction, Overview and Summary Questions you may have coming in: How do I determine what is needed? Keep reading! What vehicles are compatible? Hardware will work with all 2004 and older...
View ArticleBURN1+F2A+F2E: Reading Ford ECMs
Requirements There are two products that we sell that can read the program in a factory ECM: BURN1/BURN2 with a F2A and F2E – This setup can be used to read ECMs on the bench. ECM does not need to be...
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Ford Tuning: Load with failed MAF table(s)
Introduction / Prerequisites Before you read this, make sure you have read Theory: Alpha-N, Theory: Mass Air Flow and the FordOverview. Although not essential, it wouldn’t hurt to have at least read...
View ArticleTuning: MAF systems, air leaks and reversion
Introduction As stated in our overview of MAF systems, one of their main weaknesses are air leaks. Whenever air can enter the engine without going through the MAF, weird things happen. There are two...
View ArticleFord: Box code – strategy – vehicle cross reference
This page is intended to help people who have looked here to figure out if there is support for their vehicle. Each ECM has a 3 or 4 digit processor code that uniquely identifies it. You can tell what...
View ArticleWho uses our gear?
This page is being created so we have a place to keep track of all the people who are using our gear for various applications. If you would like to be added or removed from here, please email...
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EmUtility: standalone emulator control
Introduction Ever wish your favorite Moates emulator would work with your favorite ROM editor software that doesn’t have native support for our products? EmUtility (from the author of TunerPro) allows...
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Demon
Introduction / Identification The Demon (or original Demon, Demon 1) pictured above is the first of our integrated devices aimed at Honda/Acura-friendly P28/P30/P72 OBD1 ECUs. Flawless realtime...
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O-Meter
O-Meter The O-Meter’s physical dimensions are 2.500″ x 1.625″ x 0.800″Check out the documentation to understand what all this unit can do! Does AFR/Lambda/Universal display, data storage, etc. Fully...
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Ostrich 1 Operation
Ostrich Here’s how you install the Ostrich: (Much of this will apply to the Ostrich 2 as well but pictures will be different.) 1) Get on the website here in the ‘software and drivers’ section and...
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