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We recently uploaded a video that had been on our Pro Racer Training video CD that is no longer for sale. It is about 40 minutes+ long and shows you the basics of using SCT's terrific software.  Keep in mind the software version it uses is an older version, but the layout and use are essentially the same. One major difference is it shows programming an Xcalibrator 2 which are no longer made. The procedure is very similar in the latest software, except you click on the 'Program Device' icon on the top toolbar - that takes you to whatever...

LiveLink Demo We often get questions about using LiveLink datalogging software for Fords. So we prepared a very short, very basic YouTube video to help you out. The link is located at the end of this article. The list of PIDs or datalogging items varies by Ford vehicle. It is always best to use the UPPER CASE DMR’s, they may not all be available for your strategy. In that case you can look for lower case generic PIDs or OBD items. You can also mix and match. Just make sure they actually work when you are logging. You may want...

We see a ton of different vehicles. Some from private owners and some from either tuning dealers or dyno shops. Most of the vehicles we see seem to have one thing in common: mechanical issues. No matter who builds the engines or looks over the vehicle, there always seem to be issues. Rare is the vehicle anymore where everything is 100%. It does happen, but those vehicles are the exception. The #1 issue we see are vacuum leaks. If we had a dollar for each time a person assured us there were no vacuum leaks, only to do a smoke...

Here is the skinny on SCT. As many of you know, SCT was fined by the EPA for things done by Bully Dog (a mostly diesel specialized company) prior to SCT acquiring them. The issues were diesel tuning issues. The EPA, in part of the settlement, made SCT also train and test any users of their software for emissions compliance. So now when you get their software, and this applies to past users too, including all dealers like ourselves, you have to take a ‘course’ which is a bunch of PowerPoint slides, mostly about diesels. You then take a five...

One of the real problems you might face when you start making more power with your vehicle is you might just "peg" your mass airflow sensor (MAF). What is pegging? When you peg your MAF, you have not reached the airflow limit of the MAF - MAFs, even smaller sized ones, will flow enormous amounts of air. Pegging refers to hitting the electronic capacity of the sensor. MAFs use a tiny heated wire in the airflow stream and a thermistor - which is a resistor that varies resistance according to temperature. The ECU keeps scaling voltage up to keep the...