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Old 02-17-2006, 09:59 PM
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Re: diagnostic tool OBD1 95 Caprice 9C1

Even 94s with OBD1 connectos which most 95s had too the paperclip thing will not work though yeah some 95s had OBD2 plugs with OBD1 pcms.

akmcables.com There are cheaper options but these are the most popular and very nice he can sell you a license for Datamaster at a good price too.
Freescan Free and functions but a bit glitchy, not a complaint though the developer is doing a nice thing making it free so I will not complain about some minor annoyances. "Force Data" sometimes needs to be hit a few times to make in communicate.
Datamaster My favorite but only free the first 20 recording sessions, after that you are hooked though.

I use an OLD Toshiba Satellite myself 200mhz, couple gig, 96meg of ram does a wonderful job. Once you have the cable and laptop you can have custom programmers email you new tunes for the pcm, think like a Hypertech Programmer but actually good(Hypertech IS NOT) and suprizingly cheap.
pcmforless.com and madz28.com are both very reasonable and good. Can tune for performance even if you want to stick with 87 octane.
You want to get really nuts Tunercat will let you modify and load your own programming, you can blow up the engine and tranny if you screw things up though this is only $90 a bargain for what it is capable of.
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