DIY_EFI Digest Sunday, July 4 1999 Volume 04 : Number 395 In this issue: Re: Re: Other uses for the C.E Lamp Re: Other uses for the C.E Lamp See the end of the digest for information on subscribing to the DIY_EFI or DIY_EFI-Digest mailing lists. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 03 Jul 1999 17:24:15 -0500 From: DC Smith Subject: Re: Re: Other uses for the C.E Lamp DIY_EFI Digest wrote: > Date: Sat, 03 Jul 1999 12:16:02 -0400 > From: "David A. Cooley" > Subject: Re: Other uses for the C.E Lamp > > At 05:00 AM 7/3/99 -0400, you wrote: > > > >Some of the buick guys set the check engine light to function as a shift > >light through the ECM. Quad Air is one of the companies that burn chips > >this way. Their address can be found at www.gnttype.org on the vendor > >page. I'm sure they won't give you the code to do it, but at least you > >know it has been done. > > I was on the GN List until about a month ago when I got rid of my last buick... > Never heard this mentioned and I was very active there. > There would be no reason to have a shift light on the buicks, as they are > Automatic Transmission cars... of the few that the owners have converted to > manuals, they always went slower and got converted back to automatics. > Red makes a lot of GOOD chips for the buicks, and hokey flashey frills isn't > one of his products... a shift light for an automatic would probably make Red > laugh! Dave, Red does sell a chip that turns on the SES light at whatever RPM you want. It is used for a manual 2-3 shift with the torque converter locked, since letting it shift by it's self with the converter locked up gives sort of a double shift, and slows the car down. He's been offering this option for over a year. I wish I had a copy of it to look at the code patch he used to do it. Prolly a easy code patch for most of ya'll.. BTW, Red was one of the guest speakers at the Turbo Regal tech session at the Nats last week. It was a blast to listen to Red ramble on about anything and everything about making a Turbo Buick fast. BTW.. not really EFI related, but a bit from the pits.. I picked up a Precision Vigilante 9.5" -0- pump stall torque converter at the nats.. ($1150.00 list) Just slapped my tranny back in the car today after my 400 run freshening. Can't wait to hit the drag strip next friday night.. Kinda hard to tell, but seat-o-the-pants dyno checks A-ok! It just dusted a 300ZX with ease on the street with the air on, if that's any indication. It feels good, fo sure. Take care. *********************************************************************** Dan Smith 84 Regal 12.13@112 GSCA# 1459 St.Charles, Missouri mailto:dcsmith@xxx.net http://www.tetranet.net/users/morepoweral *********************************************************************** ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 04 Jul 1999 01:55:14 -0500 From: greg kring Subject: Re: Other uses for the C.E Lamp At 05:00 AM 7/3/99 -0400, Greg wrote: > >Some of the buick guys set the check engine light to function as a shift >light through the ECM. Quad Air is one of the companies that burn chips >this way. Their address can be found at www.gnttype.org on the vendor >page. I'm sure they won't give you the code to do it, but at least you >know it has been done. Dave said: I was on the GN List until about a month ago when I got rid of my last buick... Never heard this mentioned and I was very active there. There would be no reason to have a shift light on the buicks, as they are Automatic Transmission cars... of the few that the owners have converted to manuals, they always went slower and got converted back to automatics. Red makes a lot of GOOD chips for the buicks, and hokey flashey frills isn't one of his products... a shift light for an automatic would probably make Red laugh! Greg replies: Not so Dave, sorry. A quick search of the archives turned this up on the subject. Didn't go through the whole archives to see what else turns up. Of course the guy may be lying or confused, but I remember the post because I thought it was a neat idea at the time. remember us Buick guys are prone to doing all sorts of cool things with the stock ECMs. No reason to have a shift light in an auto car? Come on. All the really fast cars are automatics, you telling me they don't use shift lights or tachs when they race? greg From the GN archives----------------------------------- From: Mike Immel Subject: Re: Shift Light - Electronic Question ... Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 17:42:09 -0600 Mark, I have a chip from Red Armstrong that turns on my check engine light @ 5500 rpm in each gear. Sort-of an inexpensive shift lite. Works great. Give him a call! ------------------------------ End of DIY_EFI Digest V4 #395 ***************************** To subscribe to DIY_EFI-Digest, send the command: subscribe diy_efi-digest in the body of a message to "Majordomo@xxx. A non-digest (direct mail) version of this list is also available; to subscribe to that instead, replace "diy_efi-digest" in the command above with "diy_efi".