Ralph Wiggum Moar Powar Babeh Lifetime Members 19,323 Member For: 19y 2m 6d Gender: Male Location: Perth Posted 01/08/16 02:07 AM Author Share Posted 01/08/16 02:07 AM No if your mate has the Advantage 3 software package (assuming it's still called that) you'll be fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rollex Member 683 Member For: 10y 5m 21d Gender: Male Location: Australia Posted 01/08/16 02:45 AM Share Posted 01/08/16 02:45 AM 35 minutes ago, Ralph Wiggum said: No if your mate has the Advantage 3 software package (assuming it's still called that) you'll be fine. Don seemed to think he could get an aussie dongle that would work with the Advantage 3 software whilst being in the US. I'm not sure how he would do this but he seemed confident it could be done. 1 hour ago, Qik6 said: Yeah that's no good to you it's just in my case he has everything there (Dyno ,SCT software and I have a the box. I also heard a while ago not sure if it a rumour or not that the HP tuners used to do some weird things to the fords like switch on thermos when it wanted or other stuff that I can't remember is it true or is that just crap. And Ralph when u refer to region is that Aus and US End of the day the PCM code is the same whether you use HP tuners or SCT so any "weird things" would have to be due to changing variables by mistake. It is possible they had mapped variables incorrectly meaning you wrote to them by mistake but people would have reported and had these fixed by now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qik6 Member 39 Member For: 10y 5m 13d Posted 01/08/16 03:34 AM Share Posted 01/08/16 03:34 AM Yeah it's probably the end user always looking to blame someone wherever the rumour started. Lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IH8TOADS Silver Donating Members 3,618 Member For: 19y 4m 21d Gender: Male Location: OZ Posted 01/08/16 09:45 AM Share Posted 01/08/16 09:45 AM Stick with SCT where you can, it has access to more parameters and is basic in its layout. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rollex Member 683 Member For: 10y 5m 21d Gender: Male Location: Australia Posted 01/08/16 10:29 AM Share Posted 01/08/16 10:29 AM Have you ever used sniper? Curious if it has even more parameters Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qik6 Member 39 Member For: 10y 5m 13d Posted 01/08/16 10:32 AM Share Posted 01/08/16 10:32 AM No worries thanks for your advice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IH8TOADS Silver Donating Members 3,618 Member For: 19y 4m 21d Gender: Male Location: OZ Posted 01/08/16 10:50 AM Share Posted 01/08/16 10:50 AM No I never used or even seen what Sniper can access. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rollex Member 683 Member For: 10y 5m 21d Gender: Male Location: Australia Posted 10/08/16 05:11 AM Share Posted 10/08/16 05:11 AM (edited) How many of you guys have tuned ECUs that have live tuning, eg you can modify tables whilst the car is running and see how it changes? Do you guys like it? I have some ideas on how I could implement this for the ford PCMs, it however would require a multiple months of development so I'm not sure if the effort would be worth it. The method I have in mind wouldn't require modifying the PCM and could be done via software only (yet to be proven but I believe it is absolutely possible). Most likely it would go down the path of SCT where you can only use certain "base" tunes per car, it wouldn't be something you could easily add to existing tunes or strategy's. Is this kind of feature desirable? Would people pay for it? Edited 10/08/16 05:13 AM by rollex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qik6 Member 39 Member For: 10y 5m 13d Posted 10/08/16 05:31 AM Share Posted 10/08/16 05:31 AM 15 minutes ago, rollex said: How many of you guys have tuned ECUs that have live tuning, eg you can modify tables whilst the car is running and see how it changes? Do you guys like it? I have some ideas on how I could implement this for the ford PCMs, it however would require a multiple months of development so I'm not sure if the effort would be worth it. The method I have in mind wouldn't require modifying the PCM and could be done via software only (yet to be proven but I believe it is absolutely possible). Most likely it would go down the path of SCT where you can only use certain "base" tunes per car, it wouldn't be something you could easily add to existing tunes or strategy's. Is this kind of feature desirable? Would people pay for it? Rollex you can't compare the both doing it live is so much easier quicker and you see the change immediately and also you have the pin point accuracy of what load cell the engine is at whilst tuning live. if you could implement live tuning you would be a millionaire Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rollex Member 683 Member For: 10y 5m 21d Gender: Male Location: Australia Posted 10/08/16 05:45 AM Share Posted 10/08/16 05:45 AM (edited) 16 minutes ago, Qik6 said: Rollex you can't compare the both doing it live is so much easier quicker and you see the change immediately and also you have the pin point accuracy of what load cell the engine is at whilst tuning live. if you could implement live tuning you would be a millionaire I guess the next question is whether people would buy yet another cable for this. Would probably initially use a mongoose cable as it supports J2534 passthrough and raising the programming pin voltages. These are almost $500 USD atm though. Anyone have a spare BF/FG PCM they are looking at getting rid of? I might buy one off ebay and see if my custom firmware idea will break other parts of the car. Same goes for a mongoose cable, anyone have a ford one they don't use? (or any J2534 pass thru cable for that matter) If my idea fails then the next best thing is map tracing which is absolute 100% achievable with no PCM firmware mods. I have no idea why HPT have not implemented this yet as it is so easy to do. Does SCT have map tracing? Edited 10/08/16 05:48 AM by rollex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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