First time Tuner Express Setup-Computer, Wideband and Cabling

[d....@mac.com]

If you're a first-time tuner hopefully this will help you get your system setup to use TE. I'm using Tuner Express to tune an OBD0 d16a6 and this has been working great for me. If you haven't spent the $20 to buy TE, do so now. You're saving a couple hundred bucks by going obd0 vs. upgrading to obd1.

Technology Stack-

2015 Macbook Pro

Virtual Box

Windows XP

Tuner Express

If you're a mac guy i'd definitely recommend Virtual Box-it's free and works great. I had an ancient copy of XP laying around so I ran all updates, installed Logworks and the MS .NET framework, as well as some anti-virus software. I'd still recommend a newer OS if you have one due to MS no longer patching XP.

Hardware and cables-

Moates Ostrich 2 Romulator

Hulog Data logging Cable

Innovate LM-2 Wideband controller and sensor

Serial to USB cable

Generic USB 2 hub (unpowered)

There are a few different ways to wire the wideband, but all you are trying to accomplish is getting the WB signal into Tuner Express so it can be logged with the rest of your data inputs. My controller, the LM-2, isn't meant to be permanently mounted on the car so I installed the sensor in the exhaust downpipes, ran the cable into the cabin and plugged the sensor and the 12v power (from the cigarette lighter) into the controller. Innovate wants you to buy a separate serial cable that takes the WB signal from the controller, and you'll need a serial to USB cable to take the signal from the innovate cable into the computer itself. 

Virtual Box has to be told to connect the ports on the mac to the virtual ports on XP, so use the Devices>USB menu in VB for that. Making sure all the hardware (WB, Moates, and Hulog) connects to the right com ports takes a bit of dorking around in XP, so get into the device manager settings and make sure the com ports are set correctly. 

[fastcrxsi90]

Great info, thanks for putting this together!