Project: Mavro Gato - 99 Turbo'd 3L

[wadespencer99]

[Jameson250s]

lolz

[gamiller]

Originally Posted by FastCougar

This is VERY easy to understand if people would pull their heads out of their butt and know what "male end" and "female end" refers to:

It comes down to sloppy documentation, which almost cost me my XCal. Both diagrams that illustrate the pin-out, the one from Innovate Motorsports and the one from SCT that Joey posted earlier, state THIS IS THE MALE END, but until now, nobody had declared the diagram to actually be the female end. Not here, not at CEG, and not at SCT. Sorry, I'm still pissed that my XCal got F'ed because of a wrongly-labeled diagram distributed by the manufacturer!

EDIT: I just spoke with Mike Rivera of SCT tech support. He swears up and down that THE DIAGRAM IS CORRECT AND IS THE MALE END. Joey, can you please check what pins you have connected on yours? I really don't want to make a warranty claim let alone buy a new XCal.

[FastCougar]

Originally Posted by gamiller

It comes down to sloppy documentation, which almost cost me my XCal. Both diagrams that illustrate the pin-out, the one from Innovate Motorsports and the one from SCT that Joey posted earlier, state THIS IS THE MALE END, but until now, nobody had declared the diagram to actually be the female end. Not here, not at CEG, and not at SCT. Sorry, I'm still pissed that my XCal got F'ed because of a wrongly-labeled diagram distributed by the manufacturer!

That's what I was getting at ... a simple proof read of the document that diagram came from (what is it ... 1 page at most) would have revealed this flaw. I will be creating a sticky thread in the tuning section documenting my install of the AEM and will make this point VERY clear.

[PuckPuck]

Reading all this Trevor, I really suspect you have a bad t-stat.

[gamiller]

Here's what appears to be a complete list of possible causes of a high temp reading:

[BurritaSVT]

I went to my car and checked it again the plug diagram is male now if your ground is not to great it can pull power from the xcal2 (not likely) So if you hook up the male side using these pins then you will be correct. Joey

[FastCougar]

Been there, done that ... didn't work for me

[gamiller]

Yeah, that's the same diagram you posted earlier and the same one that cooked my XCal. Joey, you posted in the XCal forums and elsewhere that the diagram was wrong. Did your problem turn out to be something else? For Trevor's sake, let's move this discussion over to my post on the wideband install in the Tuning forum.

[BurritaSVT]

no I been running this setup for over a year it is male end just like SCT stated that pic came off of SCT Flash Devices - MORE Power . . . Period! when I tried the xcal2 the first time I used the female side because the dots look liked female holes but after I didn't recieve any signal I swapped the setup to male corresponding to the diagram. I tried to take pics but my camera does not have a clear closeup shot of the pins.

Trust me if you tried the male side and it didn't work then you have other problems. If you need more concrete evidence I can get me camcorder out and tape the process since it does show closeup better.
Joey
LC-1/LM-1 Integration into SCT’s Xcal 2:: Innovate Motorsports Application Notes
SCT Flash