Minotaur with quarterhorse Emulator

[Powerstroke Cowboy]

Hello all,

I just picked up a Quarterhorse emulator to use with the Minotaur software. I am really looking forward to "live" tuning my 7.3L Should make it a lot easier to get the idle set up right and clear up some of the haze in cold weather starting. Its a pain having to reburn the chip to test new tunes and see what the changes made perform like.

My question is. How do I get the Quarter horse to work? Do I need the 4-bank switch to use it for live tuning? The reason I ask is, I installed the QH on the J3 port just like a chip, I have the harness plugged in to the laptop I use for tuning. All is fine the engine will start and run in till I try to load the tune onto the QH. as soon as it loads the engine shuts off and will not start till I turn the QH off or hit the Stock button.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks for the help!

David

[Power Hungry]

Normally, there shouldn't be any issues using the QuarterHorse. It's quite literally plug & play. What size binary file are you using? 224K? 256K? The QuarterHorse is going to require 256K files.

Let me know, or give us a shout and we can try to get this figured out for you.

Thanks!

[Powerstroke Cowboy]

Originally Posted by Power Hungry

Normally, there shouldn't be any issues using the QuarterHorse. It's quite literally plug & play. What size binary file are you using? 224K? 256K? The QuarterHorse is going to require 256K files.

Let me know, or give us a shout and we can try to get this figured out for you.

Thanks!

Thank you for the response! I think you just pointed out the problem. My files are 224k not 256k. So I am sure that's the problem. Now to convert the files to 256k and try again.

Thanks for the tip Bill!! I did not know that.

[Power Hungry]

Originally Posted by Powerstroke Cowboy

Thank you for the response! I think you just pointed out the problem. My files are 224k not 256k. So I am sure that's the problem. Now to convert the files to 256k and try again.

Thanks for the tip Bill!! I did not know that.

No worries. If you have any other questions, let me know.

[Powerstroke Cowboy]

Originally Posted by Power Hungry

No worries. If you have any other questions, let me know.

I got another question... I resized the files from 224kb to 256kb. As soon as the quarter horse downloads the file the engine shuts off and the check engine light comes on. As long as I keep the file loaded it will not start. But as soon as I click the "stock" button on the emulator, the check engine light goes out and it will start.

I have tried loading the file through the QH with the pickup off, key on and with the pickup running. The same thing happens both times.

[Power Hungry]

Can you PM me the file? I can take a look and see what's up. The file has to be in a specific format, and the bank ordering and padding are important.