The Innovate OpenTune™ OBD-II / CAN Interface

Gather and analyze all the critical performance
data from any car made since 1996*

The new OpenTune OBD-II / MTS interface from Innovate Motorsports allows high speed data logging from the factory computer OBD-II interface of any car, truck, and SUV made since 1996*, and integrates with Innovate air/fuel meters and other modular tuning system (MTS) components. Prior to OpenTune, critical data was collected from isolated systems and was nearly impossible to synchronize to get a clear picture of how the car was performing. More and more people are tuning their late-model cars, trucks, or SUVs, and need a tool that offers full scanning and diagnostic capabilities. The Innovate OpenTune system offers just that, combining affordability and ease of use with professional-quality data rates, parameter selections, and analysis capabilities.

Modern car computers are connected to hundreds of complex sensors. OpenTune “opens” the door of these complex engine management computers, providing unprecedented access to data being measured directly by these sensors. Users can select up to 16 channels from hundreds of available data streams, and log the data 12 times per second. Users can also record up to 28 conditions, states, and codes as “status” channels, and even reset check engine lights and other trouble codes.

• Select and log any 16 of hundreds of available parameters.

• “Fast packet” logging (12 samples/second on all channels) for fully-synchronous high-speed data.

• Includes industry-leading LogWorks engine analysis software with user-customizable skins

• Real time horsepower and torque calculators.

• Fully compliant with the Innovate Modular Tuning System (MTS). Log directly into LogWorks or into a DL-32, while integrating wideband air/fuel ratio sensors, accelerometers, thermocouples, etc.

• Display and clear any trouble codes.

• Display live data on Innovate XD-16 gauges or LogWorks PC application (included).

Since many top tuners already use Innovate Motorsports tools, the OpenTune system allows customers and tuners to collaborate with one another by exchanging log files directly from Logworks. OpenTune works on every vehicle manufactured since 1996, making it the first high-speed scanner/logger for many makes, including Subaru*, Chrysler*, Mitsubishi*, Honda*, Toyota*, and Nissan*, as well as being the most powerful and affordable scanner available for Ford* and GM* applications.

When Innovate released the first affordable pro-quality wideband O2 kits in 2003, tuners started to realize the value of having timely and accurate vehicle data to analyze. Back then many people didn’t even know what Air/Fuel Ratio was, but now few serious enthusiasts would tune without it. The same is true for a multitude of other critical performance parameters, such as ignition timing, transmission temperatures, coolant temperatures, vehicle speed, mass air flow, intake air temperature, etc.

If you are considering using a Diablosport*,  Superchips*, Edge*, Hypertech* or other “chip tuner” to replace your stock tune with a modified performance or fuel mileage tune, you should consider data acquisition. With the Innovate OpenTune system, you can log very detailed data prior to making any modifications. Then, after modifying, you log additional data and compare. This allows you to see what’s being changed, by how much, if the changes are safe for your engine, and where you might find room for additional improvement.

Most late-model cars and light trucks do not have a wideband oxygen sensor, but they DO have about 100 other sensors that gather very useful information. Instead of duplicating these sensors externally, the OpenTune interface allows you to directly access these existing sensors. The OT-1 is a fully-compliant Innovate MTS device, so it can drive XD-16 gauges, log to DL-32 recorders, and integrate fully-synchronous data with Innovate widebands and other sensor controllers.

*1996 is the year the OBD-II system was standardized for passenger vehicles sold in the United States.  In Europe, this was standardized in 2001 for gasoline vehicles and 2004 for diesel passenger cars.

Fully integrated engine performance data!
With the Innovate Motorsports MTS Components

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