[Chneff123]

Trying to get some insight into finally getting my truck tuned.

Long story short, I have a 1998 F150 with a Stroker 4.3 V6 built by Tom Yentzer at SuperSix Motorsports.
Anyways this truck has a Strategy that’s CTAF5.
I’ve been working my Tweecer for a while trying to get a Custom Calibration Tune but it’s been quite a long process
Anyway I managed to get a base tune and is idling barely driving.

Anyway I purchased a Moates chip to use Binary Editor to get a tune, seems like more Remote Tuners available for this software.

So the problem I’m having is my truck Strategy is CTAF5 and the Strategies available is CTAF3 the 1997 F series.

Anyhow I purchased what I thought was a CTAF3 ECU. But when I went to read the factory tune, Auto Dectect said it was a CTAF4,
So I proceeded to save the calibration.
But when I looked at the Scalars, Tables, and Functions no data was in the cells.
Also Binary Editor would not write to the Moates because the Bank Count could not be selected

Any help with this would be greatly appreciated
I really needed to get my Base Tune Crossed over to be able to get Logging and a Custom Tune

Thanks

[86GT]

Sorry for the extremely late response.

The last digit on the strategy is usually the version of that strategy. CTAF5 is version 5. Ford must have a reason that they went from version 2 all the way to 5. Most of the time it is updates to the emissions stuff but not always. If you find that BE did not have the most recent version either Core Tuning did not know there was a newer version or they dont have it. I would contact Ben over at CoreTuning and see if they have a newer version.

If you have the Mongoose cable you can upgrade the PCM to have a newer strategy and you can also downgrade it. It is not recommended to downgrade if possible.

[Chneff123]

No worries
Thanks for responding

Since then I have acquired the 97 CTAF3 EEC and I’m currently in the process of dialing in OL Neutral and In Gear Idle, and going to be doing some light load OL tuning.
Just trying to work around the 255 second limits of the CTAF3 for OL tuning without adaptives on.

Also thanks for the tip on the Mongoose for the possibility of updating an existing EEC.
I’ll have to check this out