While the big players collections are the ones we most frequently talk about around the water cooler, consider how uncommon it would have been – even just a few years ago – to know someone who personally owned a half dozen (or more) cars that they kept in the garage behind the house? At the same time, there are a great many more collectors – some who own dozens (if not hundreds) of Corvettes, while a great many more own smaller collections of five to ten cars.

Note: For FORScan coding modifications, we recommend using the OBD2 USB adapter for it provides a more stable connection.For roughly the last quarter century, there has been a significant increase in the number of indviduals (and groups) who have made Corvette collecting a “national passtime.” There are the big names, like Rick Hendrick or Ken Lingenfelter, whose collections rival (and exceed) those of the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, Kentucky or the Marconi Auto Museum in Tustin, California.

Below are our featured OBD2 adapters that work flawlessly with FORScan. To make such changes you will need a reliable FORScan adapter to do the trick. The tool works best with FORScan if you wish to apply modifications to your vehicle. Once you got the As-built data that you need, you can now run them with the As-Built Explorer software. You can look for these data from forum and other related forums. Then use these VIN numbers to search and download their As-Built *.AB format, *.ABT format, or UCDS format files. To search for similar as-built codes, you will need first to get the VIN numbers of the vehicle models you want to compare with. The tool is compatible with Ford as well as Lincoln and Mazda vehicles. It also allows you to export to *.AB format and to the UCDS *.XML format.

It can compare single *.AB format for Ford/Motorcraft with multiple *.ABT format files for FORScan As-Built data, along with the UCDS type of files. This handy tool allows you to compare, explore, and analyze numerous as-built data of various vehicle models. If you are looking for vehicle models that share the similar as-built codes as your vehicle, you can use the As-Built Explorer software created by Jesse Yeager. A number of Ford vehicles share the same as-built data.

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