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TRS · 04-13-2020, 04:50 AM

Hi @toddy101!

First of all, thank you for this realy great Translator. Got my swap working two days ago. The car is not drive able yet since airbox, driveshaft and a section of the exhaust are still missing. This beeing said, I am already very impressed how OEM like the feeling is with your Translator. Also in matter of OBD scaning and ECU tuning. Only point where I was strugeling a little was doing the correct wiring since I started the project before your latest wiring guide was available.

If you agree I could share my personal wiring notes here. Maybe it helps some other useres with doing this job. Also the perspective of an actual user and the findings I made could help to make this even more easy. This beeing said, with the new wiring guide it should be a realy easy Installation.

Again, I have to Thank you. I would give a 95% rating for this product at the moment.

If you could provide a download link for the Bluetooth Test App I would give an instand 100% rating. Would be great if you could come up with a link.

@all they are planing a LS swap: I just can recommend using this Translator. Its simply great. As promissid nearly everything is working.

Only exception is the EVAP system, but I dont know any Translator or adapter which keeps this alive. As well, in my case the car doesnt even have this system since I'm located in Europe and the EVAP leak test system is not mandatory here. Since this system can be completely controlled by the GM ECU, you have basically two options:

-deactivate (as I did, but keep in mind this tweak could be illegal depending on your location)

-or use the GM EVAP solenoid valve (attention: This is NOT the purge valve, purge valve is operational out of the box) and the GM tank pressure sensor: install the sensor in the top of the 86 fuel pump, remove the 86 EVAP vacuum pump behind the diff carrier and place the GM EVAP solenoid valve therefore. Wire this to the GM ECU (overall this should be a harness with 3 wires plus 2 wires for Power supply) and it should work.

I researched this pretty far until I noticed that there is actually no EVAP system on my car since I didnt know that this system is not installed on EU 86'. In the end I left this mod out since it was not needed, but I can say that even this seems very possible.

Again, I have reasearched close to any available CAN Translator option out there, watched a bunch of Videos and read through 100eds of posts in several build threads in different boards. I was not able to find any more complete and more Plug&Play style solution.

I would also state that, if I knew that this thing is working as it does before purchasing, would be willing to pay even a much higher price for this great unit! Just keep in mind that other solutions which have at least nearly the same OEM style functionality would mean to use a very expensive free programmable aftermarket ECU as well as doing the complete wiring with that. With the Translator you can use the complete functionality of the GM E38 ECU, which provides nearly same functionality as a free programmable when using Hptuners. Sure, specialised stuff as ALS and launch control are not available (at least not as far as I know, but I'm for sure a HPT beginner), but even a forced Induktion setup should be possible. Overall the Translator is not only the most complete and most comfortable solution I know, it is also very very inexpensive, even if you sum it up with the costs for the HPT Tool which is necessary if want to do the tune on your own. (The necessary adjustments to get it just running can be done in less than 30min even by a HPT-noob like me, so a local tuner should be able to do this for a very low rate)

04-13-2020, 04:50 AM	#20
TRS Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2019 Drives: 2013' Toyota 86 (EU spec) Location: Germany Posts: 160 Thanks: 32 Thanked 139 Times in 56 Posts Mentioned: 4 Post(s) Tagged: 1 Thread(s)	Hi @toddy101! First of all, thank you for this realy great Translator. Got my swap working two days ago. The car is not drive able yet since airbox, driveshaft and a section of the exhaust are still missing. This beeing said, I am already very impressed how OEM like the feeling is with your Translator. Also in matter of OBD scaning and ECU tuning. Only point where I was strugeling a little was doing the correct wiring since I started the project before your latest wiring guide was available. If you agree I could share my personal wiring notes here. Maybe it helps some other useres with doing this job. Also the perspective of an actual user and the findings I made could help to make this even more easy. This beeing said, with the new wiring guide it should be a realy easy Installation. Again, I have to Thank you. I would give a 95% rating for this product at the moment. If you could provide a download link for the Bluetooth Test App I would give an instand 100% rating. Would be great if you could come up with a link. @all they are planing a LS swap: I just can recommend using this Translator. Its simply great. As promissid nearly everything is working. Only exception is the EVAP system, but I dont know any Translator or adapter which keeps this alive. As well, in my case the car doesnt even have this system since I'm located in Europe and the EVAP leak test system is not mandatory here. Since this system can be completely controlled by the GM ECU, you have basically two options: -deactivate (as I did, but keep in mind this tweak could be illegal depending on your location) -or use the GM EVAP solenoid valve (attention: This is NOT the purge valve, purge valve is operational out of the box) and the GM tank pressure sensor: install the sensor in the top of the 86 fuel pump, remove the 86 EVAP vacuum pump behind the diff carrier and place the GM EVAP solenoid valve therefore. Wire this to the GM ECU (overall this should be a harness with 3 wires plus 2 wires for Power supply) and it should work. I researched this pretty far until I noticed that there is actually no EVAP system on my car since I didnt know that this system is not installed on EU 86'. In the end I left this mod out since it was not needed, but I can say that even this seems very possible. Again, I have reasearched close to any available CAN Translator option out there, watched a bunch of Videos and read through 100eds of posts in several build threads in different boards. I was not able to find any more complete and more Plug&Play style solution. I would also state that, if I knew that this thing is working as it does before purchasing, would be willing to pay even a much higher price for this great unit! Just keep in mind that other solutions which have at least nearly the same OEM style functionality would mean to use a very expensive free programmable aftermarket ECU as well as doing the complete wiring with that. With the Translator you can use the complete functionality of the GM E38 ECU, which provides nearly same functionality as a free programmable when using Hptuners. Sure, specialised stuff as ALS and launch control are not available (at least not as far as I know, but I'm for sure a HPT beginner), but even a forced Induktion setup should be possible. Overall the Translator is not only the most complete and most comfortable solution I know, it is also very very inexpensive, even if you sum it up with the costs for the HPT Tool which is necessary if want to do the tune on your own. (The necessary adjustments to get it just running can be done in less than 30min even by a HPT-noob like me, so a local tuner should be able to do this for a very low rate) Last edited by TRS; 04-13-2020 at 11:47 AM.