[Amc-list] Moates' APU1 "AutoPROM" system.... for OBD1

[Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>]

Anyone here have experience with this thing? Unless someone pipes up in 
the negative I'm gonna buy it.

The AutoPROM thing is a sort of all-in-one kit. You need a Windows laptop.

You pluck out the PROM with the binary program and data tables from your 
GM ECM. Stick this thing in the hole instead, and load up a COPY of the 
PROM, from disk. So now you have a laptop on the passenger seat, the 
APU1 box connected to it, and a ribbon cable from the APU1 into the ECM 
under your dash. Stop short, it all crashes to the floor, and the engine 
stops! (Don't do that.)

With the Tunerpro software (comes with), you can examine and modify the 
fuel tables in the ECM. I suppose you could drive to work with this 
ratnest of cables and boxes next to you.

When you get the tuning all correct, you can burn a FLASH PROM (if you 
buy or make the $30 chip adapter) or burn an EPROM (if you have blank 
EPROMS and EPROM burner and/or UV EPROM eraser and all that crap). Then 
stick the PROM in and drive like a normal person.


This seems to not just be the cheapest solution, it seems the best 
overall. It works only with OBD1 ECMs (I think), but that's what I have 
right now, and once I tune up the Rambler Classic's Howell kit, I'll be 
able to adapt junkyard parts to other cars -- THAT! will save a big wad 
of cash! TBI is a hell of a lot easier to retrofit than TPI! And I know 
I can bolt a GM throttle body onto the 195.6OHV...

The only other solutions seem to be vastly more expensive, though more 
flexible. Like buy one of those Innotronics LM-1 or LM-2 ($400+), send 
that data to Howell or other tuner house ($50 - $200) and have them do 
the data tables and PROM burn, etc or buy all the gear separately to 
burn your own.
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