Cobb AccessPORT Discussion
#326
IT WORKS!!! I'm proud to be the first Canadian to verify that it for sure works! Anyways, I connected it following bander's instructions again, twice, it did not work and I almost gave up again, then I looked at the pins again, there were two pins sticking out. One in the middle and one on the side. I took the butt end of a ball point pen and jammed this pin back into the dongle. Then the third time I tried it it worked fine!! F*CKIN A!!!
I loaded the map and everything is fine. The fit and finish of this thing is far from an ipod or cell phone, but that's not what we're paying for. I drove the car around, and it still backfires like crazy, stalls and idles low, but my car is FI and I didn't get the maps from Jeff yet. So it runs like crap but this is the wrong tune. Anyways, this is great news, and now I'm not gonna sleep till Jeff emails me the tunes. JEFF, where are you???
I"m probably not going to try the reflash again until i open up this dongle and find out where the loose connection was and fix it. The last thing I want is for it to move and disconnect in the middle of a flash. Other than that, everything should be fine for Canadians! Oh my CEL dissappeared too!
I loaded the map and everything is fine. The fit and finish of this thing is far from an ipod or cell phone, but that's not what we're paying for. I drove the car around, and it still backfires like crazy, stalls and idles low, but my car is FI and I didn't get the maps from Jeff yet. So it runs like crap but this is the wrong tune. Anyways, this is great news, and now I'm not gonna sleep till Jeff emails me the tunes. JEFF, where are you???
I"m probably not going to try the reflash again until i open up this dongle and find out where the loose connection was and fix it. The last thing I want is for it to move and disconnect in the middle of a flash. Other than that, everything should be fine for Canadians! Oh my CEL dissappeared too!
Last edited by Grouch; 03-16-2008 at 08:46 PM.
#330
IT WORKS!!! I'm proud to be the first Canadian to verify that it for sure works! Anyways, I connected it following bander's instructions again, twice, it did not work and I almost gave up again, then I looked at the pins again, there were two pins sticking out. One in the middle and one on the side. I took the butt end of a ball point pen and jammed this pin back into the dongle. Then the third time I tried it it worked fine!! F*CKIN A!!!
I loaded the map and everything is fine. The fit and finish of this thing is far from an ipod or cell phone, but that's not what we're paying for. I drove the car around, and it still backfires like crazy, stalls and idles low, but my car is FI and I didn't get the maps from Jeff yet. So it runs like crap but this is the wrong tune. Anyways, this is great news, and now I'm not gonna sleep till Jeff emails me the tunes. JEFF, where are you???
I"m probably not going to try the reflash again until i open up this dongle and find out where the loose connection was and fix it. The last thing I want is for it to move and disconnect in the middle of a flash. Other than that, everything should be fine for Canadians! Oh my CEL dissappeared too!
I loaded the map and everything is fine. The fit and finish of this thing is far from an ipod or cell phone, but that's not what we're paying for. I drove the car around, and it still backfires like crazy, stalls and idles low, but my car is FI and I didn't get the maps from Jeff yet. So it runs like crap but this is the wrong tune. Anyways, this is great news, and now I'm not gonna sleep till Jeff emails me the tunes. JEFF, where are you???
I"m probably not going to try the reflash again until i open up this dongle and find out where the loose connection was and fix it. The last thing I want is for it to move and disconnect in the middle of a flash. Other than that, everything should be fine for Canadians! Oh my CEL dissappeared too!
I am so god damn happy right now I don't know what to do with myself.
Yeehaa!
#331
That one would not go back in. Yours looks exactly like mine, and that is the same pin stickin out. I had another one stickin out similarly to that, but loose, on the right side, if looking at it from your pic. I jammed that one back in, so now that one looks the same as all the others, but the 'center' pin is still stickin out about a mm longer than the others (same pin as yours).
I don't have a small enough screwdriver to open this damn thing up, otherwise I can let you know what happened. I'll try and do this later tonight or tomorrow if i can drop by a home depot and buy a freaking nano screwdriver, lol.
#333
Got it using a wider phillips head...
The connection points aren't adjustable. It just wiggles. I hope someone from Cobb can chime in if it should be sticking out 2mm and be able to wiggle up towards the center of the dongle. The other pins do not wiggle around.
The connection points aren't adjustable. It just wiggles. I hope someone from Cobb can chime in if it should be sticking out 2mm and be able to wiggle up towards the center of the dongle. The other pins do not wiggle around.
#336
the point is that it's loose. So if it shifts position, then it's not connected and might explain why I randomly get the unable to connect error. This is still speculation. Even if I move the pin in deeper, it wouldn't make it sit any more solidly in that position.
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you know, there may be a perfectly good reason for the pin to stick out a little further than the rest. i know on hdmi home theater cables, on of the connections is set back, purposely, so that that connection is the last one to be made, for synchronization reasons. please dont do anything crazy and ruin your investments
#342
don't mean conflict but on a NA car, with the tuning of a custom map, can you pull better numbers with the addition of the Cobb with a Mazsport Ignition, or is the ignition solution at its best. Also QS., would it be better to go with the Cobb AP, or the Mazsport Ignition, my car is running a Mazdaspeed CAI, Exhaust, and RP supercat. I will have both soon, looking for one at the moment for most gains and practicality.
#343
ignition is a weak point on the car, but power gains are not the point of fixing up the ignition, while tweaking the fuel management will bring in direct gains in power.
#346
you know, there may be a perfectly good reason for the pin to stick out a little further than the rest. i know on hdmi home theater cables, on of the connections is set back, purposely, so that that connection is the last one to be made, for synchronization reasons. please dont do anything crazy and ruin your investments
#348
#349
i didn't mean it in a crude caveman way like it sounded, maybe what i should say, which would be a more accurate description, is that there was very obviously something wrong with one of the pins and it looked loose and like it was falling out and that i could literally take two fingernails and gently pull it out.. - i took this and gently wiggled it back into place with the butt of a ball point pen. not in a rough way that would damage anything but in a way that would ensure metal-metal contact would be made inside the plastic. i would have done it more properly if i had a nanoscrewdriver but didn't and if this didn't work, i woulda opened it up at a later time to see why the pin was messed up
#350
Jeff, what flash version are you using as the base for your maps? This looked interesting.
http://www.finishlineperformance.com...14-08-1924.pdf
http://www.finishlineperformance.com...14-08-1924.pdf