Introduction

I am writing this because I spend probably 2-3 hours a day answering questions about uberdata and just tuning in general. Instead of explaining this all the time to each person which gets repetative, I am going to write up an FAQ or a How to use uberdata with all sorts of applications and links.

First we have to start off with what uberdata actually is. Uberdata is a rom editor that edits civic/integra code base binary files. Meaning that you can use it in any civic/integra ecu. So to get things started you are going to need an ecu, that will accept uberdata.

Non-Vtec
P06 - P75 - P05 - PR4

Vtec
P28 - P72 - P30 - PR3 - P61

Now you need to get that ECU chipped, you can DIY or send it out to have it done for you. It should look like this.

Ok, now that you have your ecu chipped and ready to accept an external rom chip, you will need the chip. The most used chip is the SST SF512 chip, it can be erased and burner a bunch of times. Now that you have the chip, you are going to need something to burn it with. My suggestion for burners is the Moates Burn 1 burner.

For you beginners make sure you start off with a stable version. The newest version as of 1/19/09 is 1.72. Which can be downloaed here

Uberdata 1.72

Ok, now that you've downloaded it you have to find the folder and extract the files, it will pull up a brand new folder for you once you have done this, with all the files inside it. Now click on the uberdata file and open it. It will come up with a blank screen. Now we can start to make a basemap.

Basemap

In this section I am going to describe how to make a basemap for a pretty common setup. It will be a stock GSR, 450cc injectors and a turbo setup. The first thing you need to do is open up the stock_gsr.bin file. Go to File -> Open -> StockGSR.bin

That will bring it to this screen, which you can see filled in the tables.

Now since we are changing injector size we need to go to the MISC tab and go to the injector calc and fuel modifiers section. Enter the injector size your are planning on using in the New Injector Size box and hit apply. You will notice a few things happen when you hit apply. The suggested value box in the fuel modifiers will change. This is the suggested value to use for TPS, Cold Cranking, and O2 enrichments. It was configured by taking (Old injector valve / New injector value) * 100.

You will also notice that after you hit the apply button that the fuel values in the tables have changed. They have been scaled by the percentage difference between the old and new injectors.

Now that we have scaled the fuel maps for the larger injectors it is time to add the boost tables to the ROM. This is done very easily with the built in boost functions that are in the BOOST tab. To add the boost fuel and ignition tables just setup the boost fuel efficiency in the range of 120-125 and ignition retard to .9 degrees/psi. This is generally a safe starting point. Just hit apply and you will see the program automatically calculates the fuel and ignition values for you.

You should now have boost added to the ROM and the injectors scaled properly. The last thing to do is setup the parameters and sensors you want enabled. I have created a Uberdata Feature page that explains all of the functions in a little more detail. And that is located here:

Uberdata Features

Ostrich

The ostrich is a usb based emulator that can be had from www.moates.net It is around $180 I believe and is supported by uberdata. You need to get the correct version of uberdata to get it running, and that can be found in the ostrich support thread.

Datalogging

Uberdata supports a few ways of datalogging, one is by the usb data cable, the other is a serial connection. Datalogging cables can be purchased from moates.net and www.xenocron.com