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    I just purchased a R/T and it came with a SCT X3. I went to the SCT website and went 4 pages on the forum here, but I couldn't find how to datalog and if I can catalog, how do I read it. I would like to read water temp and oil pressure, either off the SCT tuner or downloaded to a computer. Is that possible?

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    Scroll down the page to "Flying Ryan Performance". He has a lot of good info on his page. Oh, and welcome to the page!
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    I don't think you can datalog anything with SCT, the handheld is just for flashing the program. Your best bet is to get one of those cheap little OBD-bluetooth dongles and use that to datalog to Torque (Android app) or something equivalent for PC/Mac or iOS. I have the dongle and can read both of those with the Torque app, among other parameters.
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    Quote Originally Posted by KicknAsphlt View Post
    Your best bet is to get one of those cheap little OBD-bluetooth dongles and use that to datalog to Torque (Android app) .
    While this will give you quite a bit of information via OBDII port, the most important issue is going to be A/F, the stock O2 sensors won't cut it. You need something like an Innovate LM2 Wide band Air/Fuel meter/datalogger.

    Dumping the SCT and getting HPtuners probably easier with less headaches.
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    Quote Originally Posted by evilrt View Post
    While this will give you quite a bit of information via OBDII port, the most important issue is going to be A/F, the stock O2 sensors won't cut it. You need something like an Innovate LM2 Wide band Air/Fuel meter/datalogger.

    Dumping the SCT and getting HPtuners probably easier with less headaches.
    Right know I have SpinTech duals with cats and the 4 stock O2 sensors (new ones). How do I do it if I go to wide bands, I would like to keep my exhaust the way it is. Can I just replace the 2 up stream O2s with the wide band O2s and leave the down streams alone?

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    Just have a bung welded about 12” behind the collector O2, and you can tap your lm2, or wide band in there, most of us have only done the bank 2 (passenger side )

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    Quote Originally Posted by musky mike View Post
    Right know I have SpinTech duals with cats and the 4 stock O2 sensors (new ones). How do I do it if I go to wide bands, I would like to keep my exhaust the way it is. Can I just replace the 2 up stream O2s with the wide band O2s and leave the down streams alone?
    My Spintecs complete exhaust had an unused bung already welded in. I used that.
    As I bought the truck used with the Spintecs already on there, I don't know if he put the bung in or they came that way.

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    Quote Originally Posted by musky mike View Post
    Right know I have SpinTech duals with cats and the 4 stock O2 sensors (new ones). How do I do it if I go to wide bands, I would like to keep my exhaust the way it is. Can I just replace the 2 up stream O2s with the wide band O2s and leave the down streams alone?
    FYI, the two upstream O2's are required for the vehicle to run properly. The downstream are check sensors, confirms the cats are doing their job.

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    I have the LiveWire software and cable to data-log with the SCT. Anyone who has datalog with this setup before, what did you data-log?
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    I have an lm2 that I’m no longer using

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    Quote Originally Posted by evilrt View Post
    While this will give you quite a bit of information via OBDII port, the most important issue is going to be A/F, the stock O2 sensors won't cut it. You need something like an Innovate LM2 Wide band Air/Fuel meter/datalogger.

    Dumping the SCT and getting HPtuners probably easier with less headaches.
    Def agree here, with the SCT you are at the mercy of the tuner & no matter how good he is, its not his truck and hes not going to look into every last fine detail like you would on your own truck. In the past few days I copied my SCT tune, put the truck back to stock, and reloaded it with HPTuners and made a bunch of datalogs with it and the lm2 connected through the serial port and the truck drives night and day better than before.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Siciliano15 View Post
    Def agree here, with the SCT you are at the mercy of the tuner & no matter how good he is, its not his truck and hes not going to look into every last fine detail like you would on your own truck. In the past few days I copied my SCT tune, put the truck back to stock, and reloaded it with HPTuners and made a bunch of datalogs with it and the lm2 connected through the serial port and the truck drives night and day better than before.
    this is good to know. I haven't seen much feedback from HPTuner users and our trucks. Are you saying you copied the SCT tune to HPTuners before you put it back to stock with SCT ? What year is your truck ?
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    Quote Originally Posted by wedged View Post
    this is good to know. I haven't seen much feedback from HPTuner users and our trucks. Are you saying you copied the SCT tune to HPTuners before you put it back to stock with SCT ? What year is your truck ?
    Yea I read the truck when it was sct tuned with the hptuners. Then put truck back to stock with the sct. Then wrote the tune back to the performance one with the hptuners. This way I can use the sct on a different vehicle or sell it.

    My Dakota is an '02 that I did this on. I also tuned my '96 jeep 5.2 with hptuners too. I believe '96 is the first year that can be tuned.


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    I've heard SCT tune are sometimes encrypted, but it sounds like yours was not.
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    My 3rd or 4th revision burnt my pcm up

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    Quote Originally Posted by wedged View Post
    I've heard SCT tune are sometimes encrypted, but it sounds like yours was not.
    yea but im not sure if it would matter when reading with a different system or not so if its encrypted by sct, maybe hpt could still read it. not sure.


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    Quote Originally Posted by blackknight View Post
    My 3rd or 4th revision burnt my pcm up
    with SCT or HPT? did you have a weak battery by any chance?


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    Quote Originally Posted by Siciliano15 View Post
    yea but im not sure if it would matter when reading with a different system or not so if its encrypted by sct, maybe hpt could still read it. not sure.
    It's not done by SCT by default. The tuner has the option to encrypt their own tunes so they can't be stolen or copied.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Siciliano15 View Post
    with SCT or HPT? did you have a weak battery by any chance?
    The sct file came corrupt, no weak battery, I got home, pulled the laptop out, dropped the revision on the tuner and the truck was done , sat for like 2 weeks before I could find a pcm

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    Quote Originally Posted by blackknight View Post
    The sct file came corrupt, no weak battery, I got home, pulled the laptop out, dropped the revision on the tuner and the truck was done , sat for like 2 weeks before I could find a pcm
    dam that sucks. probably not easy to find one of these pcms these days by now.


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    It was a while back (7-8 years ago) , but it did take me awhile to find a pcm

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