Software for a mustang?

**Roushy** · 04-25-2006, 03:54 PM

Hey every ODBII app I have tried does not connect to my car. I have a 2002 Mustang GT. Does anyone have any experience with mustangs and ODBII that could help me out? I need it to view alot of stats now that i put down 400 RWHP and need to monitor alot of stuff.

**tj!2k4** · 04-25-2006, 04:11 PM

do the apps work with other obdii-enabled vehicles?

**joeyoravec** · 04-25-2006, 04:16 PM

I drive a 2003 Mustang GT. Our vehicles use J1850PWM and I've never had a problem.

It's probably a problem with your software or vehicle interface. What's your setup?

**Roushy** · 04-25-2006, 04:31 PM

I have a laptop with a serial cable from my SuperChips tuner that plugs in to the ODBII port under the dash. I believe that is the correct cable I need right?

I am running digimoto lite as a test recently.

**joeyoravec** · 04-25-2006, 05:56 PM

Digimoto works with the elmscan based vehicle interfaces. Only software that comes directly from superchips would be compatible with your flash tuner. It's a completely proprietary interface. You would need to call superchips and ask what software you can buy that will work with your hardware.

Otherwise you can buy a hardware/software bundle from www.palmerperformance.com. I've used his PCMScan software on my Mustang and it's pretty good.

**Roushy** · 04-25-2006, 06:11 PM

Hmmm ok I thought that serial cable was universal and the tuner did all the special stuff. O well.

**joeyoravec** · 04-25-2006, 06:37 PM

A vehicle interface acts like a PC-to-Vehicle gateway. It will accept commands on serial/usb/ethernet/etc from the PC and translate them for the vehicle's iso/pwm/vpw/can network.

There's an international PassThru standard published by the Society of Automotive Engineers (J2534) that defines how a standard vehicle interface should work. It describes a device driver that allows you to connect, read, write, apply filters, assert programming voltages, and many other functions. Unfortunately your flashtuner doesn't comply with this standard, so it can only be used with the superchips software. A lot of vendors make their boxes non-standard to lock users into buying only their products.

You would need a standard interface to be compatible with third-party software.

**Roushy** · 04-25-2006, 07:52 PM

Ok cool i'll look in to the link you gave me.

**digimotojoel** · 04-26-2006, 06:19 PM

Digimoto actually works with both the ELM and mOByDic based interfaces, but as was already stated here, you will need one of those pieces of hardware to operate the software correctly.

**crabbdaddy** · 06-08-2006, 12:51 PM

Originally Posted by joeyoravec

Digimoto works with the elmscan based vehicle interfaces. Only software that comes directly from superchips would be compatible with your flash tuner. It's a completely proprietary interface. You would need to call superchips and ask what software you can buy that will work with your hardware.

Otherwise you can buy a hardware/software bundle from www.palmerperformance.com. I've used his PCMScan software on my Mustang and it's pretty good.

so how do you like your OBDII setup.. .using pmscan.... have you used digimoto demo? .. any custom gauges on either?... im thinking of ordering digimoto and the OBDII all in one scan tool..

thanks for your time