You have it spot on. The people who are good at cracking things like this get paid upwards of 500k a year at the NSA or google. The rest of us do it for the love of it. There are far more profitable legal avenues for people with the skill set required.
@tdstuart would you mind if we put this on our forums for future reference?
It is a common question and you've explained it very concisely.
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Try comparing a gt350 to GT (I believe that gt350 didn't come with adaptive cruise) and it may shed some light.
Beware messing with pid gains and things like that as it could cause a dangerous situation if calibrated incorrectly.
We had a roush stage 1 fitted to a 17 gt, adaptive crusise was...
Compare an Australian vs US cal if you are curious. It is marked as "2" in the tricore calibration list in our software vs 1. See what else is changed.
I believe it is to save fuel economy by dropping oil pressure at steady state on the freeway.
One of my favourite features is you can automatically rescale tables when rescaling an axis. You can also see exactly what tables share this axis. Eg if you edit an MBT table, it will rescale every single MBT table for you.
Firstly double click the axis. You can see the list of shared tables...
Running E40/E50 blends is a nice compromise on an NA. You max out around E60/E70 I believe (I'm not a tuner) on a stock Gen 3 motor.
You could also use the flex fuel system for WMI, eg have a tune for WMI, or even use the flex fuel sensor itself to detect an empty tank. Ethanol will read a...
Definitely pros and cons of our approach, you've succinctly described the pros. Cons are a lot of people already have devices (hence the sct x4 integration) along with us not having direct control/ability to customise the device.
It does mean we can focus on software only though which has real...
In fairness we are also windows based and as companies we both have software engineering backgrounds, we however take a different approach and expose everything where possible.
We then dial back what you can see based on various view levels and other techniques.
We also offer a custom os on...
You can adjust the breakpoints of all the maps well past 7000 rpm if needed.
https://forum.pcmtec.com/topic/2640-howto-increase-rev-limit-10r80-auto-mustang-18-75k-8k-example/