Help-having an Oh **** tuning moment

[6500rpm]

So I purchased a SCT X4 and tune from Gearhead. Received the tuner, sent the form, and received the tune email in record time.

1) I loaded the Device Updater without issue (windows 7/10)
2) I went to the email and don't have a clue what to do. When I click on either of the two attachments my laptop doesn't know how to open them. I get the Download, but when I click to open my laptop doesn't know what program to use to open them. Clue me in if you can, I wanted to play this weekend and it's after hours for Gearhead by now so it's either figure it out or call on Monday.

 

[Zpak]

Use SCT device updater to load the email’d tune to the device. This is without looking at it but open the updater and go to load custom tune and you just select it from wherever you have it saved on the computer.

 

[6500rpm]

I'm guessing that I need to save the attachments to my desktop, or will it grab them since I downloaded them?
Also, which one is the actual tune file (I just did the AO)

Thanks

 

[Zpak]

Yeah just save the file, and in the updater just grab it from wherever it’s saved.

 

[6500rpm]

I clicked Automatically Check for Updates" and it shows that it's transferring *** of 986 updates. After playing with it, I'm guessing that was a SCT update.
I just clicked "Load Custom Tune File" tab and it gave me a AO Performance choice so I added that to the device. I didn't see anything pop up for the EBSept16.cf4 attachment in the email, so I'm guessing it runs in the background at this point.

 

[Zpak]

That would be Gearheads configuration file. To load that you have to go to livelink. That puts the specific PID’s into your device that Matt wants to see in a log.

 

[Zpak]

You’ll have to forgive me, I’m not in a position to look on a computer to know exactly what to tell you and also not the most well versed in livelink but just trying my best from memory to help you through.

In livelink you’d open that config file then I believe save to device. After that when you are in your car you can find that Gearhead configuration to run.

 

[6500rpm]

Zpak, thanks. No data log required at this point for me. The AO tune loaded to the device so I'm going to give it a go. If push comes to shove and I brick the pcm, I'll just grab IDS from work and reload the as built file.
It's a strange deal, I do this on about 8 different manufacturers at work but it's with manufacturer specific equipment and it's a cake walk. Then this one little file with the SCT has me second guessing myself, but it's the first go round.

 

[6500rpm]

Well, that definitely woke things up! I'll throw some fresh plugs in tomorrow and run some miles on it for the adaptive memory, but damn, that's impressive.

I over thought the whole process, a buddy at work tuned his King Ranch several years back and had been talking about having to download, unzip, yada yada yada. This was a completely different deal, and much simpler than the steps I was reading into it. It's all good now ( :

 

[SM105K]

Well, that definitely woke things up! I'll throw some fresh plugs in tomorrow and run some miles on it for the adaptive memory, but damn, that's impressive.

I over thought the whole process, a buddy at work tuned his King Ranch several years back and had been talking about having to download, unzip, yada yada yada. This was a completely different deal, and much simpler than the steps I was reading into it. It's all good now ( :

Even if you have the AO tune, Matt can still revise it and make it better.

 

[Kevin81]

Also, anytime you have issue...with ANYTHING, call gear head. Their customer service is top notch. They walked me through the entire process, as I too had issues getting the tuning file onto the sct device.

 

[High on Ethanol]

Matt is top notch with service and explaining what and why. Super quick email replies.

 

[802SHO]

Matt is top notch with service and explaining what and why. Super quick email replies.

I don’t think Matt sleeps. He seems available 24/7. Even for me when I ran my mouth, next thing you know he’s sending me his config file, reviewing a 3rd gear pull....asks me what I do for work....then next day he’s sending me work related mishap videos that were pretty crazy...good dude!

 

[ridered74]

Here is a good video that shows you how to do everything. Seems you've got everything other than loading the config file to the device, that is covered in the video.

I would also advise hooking the X4 back up to your computer and saving the stock file to your PC just in case.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkaEwIKM2wc

 

[High on Ethanol]

I remember when I first used sct, I was like damn the 90s are so cool, a freaking Tandy calculator can adjust my horsepower! I couldn't believe it only took 9minutes of wondering if it was going to finish for it to load. Then having to reset some weird settings like auto highness and equalizer and what time zone i wanted to be in.
Radical man!

 

[6500rpm]

I'm going to show my age a bit, but in my early days, a flash fix was pulling the ECU and replacing the EEPROM with the latest greatest fix, and tuning was reading sparkplugs, changing jets, distributor springs and weights, and timing. Things are much better now.

 

[High on Ethanol]

I'm going to show my age a bit, but in my early days, a flash fix was pulling the ECU and replacing the EEPROM with the latest greatest fix, and tuning was reading sparkplugs, changing jets, distributor springs and weights, and timing. Things are much better now.

When you get into more serious tuning....it hasn't changed as much as you would think. Still have to read plugs, change injectors instead of jets, and timing is now infinite adjusting in so many ways. If you veer off the map, it gets even more hands on.

 

[SM105K]

I'm going to show my age a bit, but in my early days, a flash fix was pulling the ECU and replacing the EEPROM with the latest greatest fix, and tuning was reading sparkplugs, changing jets, distributor springs and weights, and timing. Things are much better now.

Yes sir. When things were simple.

 

[Kevin81]

I'm going to show my age a bit, but in my early days, a flash fix was pulling the ECU and replacing the EEPROM with the latest greatest fix, and tuning was reading sparkplugs, changing jets, distributor springs and weights, and timing. Things are much better now.

Distributer recurve.





Mike drop.

 

[Zpak]

I was twisting a distributor two days ago with a timing light in my left hand while watching a vacuum gauge. Still relevant tuning methods. The 429 really likes 20° advanced but not so much on the restart.