Looking to transplant an L5P with a E41 ECM and T87A TCM into a 1984 K-10 pickup. I have done a transplant with an older Duramax (LB7) into a dedicated drag truck using the stock ECM/EFILive. We used a PCS stand alone controller for the transmission controls, 47RE transmission.
After becoming familiar with HPT and E41/T87A tuning options all the necessary parameters are not available to perform this swap.
I've researched "user defined parameters" along with TunerPro and .XDF files/.bin files. It appears (if I knew what I was doing) I could make the necessary changes to make this happen. I have been reading the white papers from TunerPro...and well I have a tremendous amount to learn and all the basic newbie questions.
First question, how do you obtain a .bin file for a ECM that can't be read? HPT produces a stock file when reading the ECM because you can only flash it.
Second question, can you convert a .hpt file to a .bin file?
I would appreciate your input, thanks.