tuning my own ecutek?

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  1. bjtyson3

    bjtyson3 Member

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    what all do i need to tune my own car?im running an ecutek ss protune..and i was just wanting to do something in between my protunes..
     
    #1 bjtyson3, Dec 9, 2007
  2. miloman

    miloman Retired Admin

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    You can't tune ECUTEK without a license
     
    #2 miloman, Dec 9, 2007
  3. mattprzy

    mattprzy Active Member

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    what would stop me (not that i would) from plugging in my laptop to my car and attempting to do so? Does the software require a cd key of some sort?

    How does it work?
     
    #3 mattprzy, Dec 10, 2007
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    sure does, in the form of a USB key i think
     
    #4 nsvwrx, Dec 10, 2007
  5. Deke

    Deke Active Member

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    hmmm sounds hackable. But I don't think I'd want to be hacking into anything that could cause great damage to my engine :)

    also it's just shady...
     
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  6. Kokopelli

    Kokopelli Active Member

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    When was your last tune done?

    If it was in 2005 or maybe even early 06 the Ecutek can be read/modified with the openecu tools. If it was mor recent then it is locked.
     
    #6 Kokopelli, Dec 10, 2007
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    his was done in 2007.
     
    #7 WJM, Dec 10, 2007
  8. bjtyson3

    bjtyson3 Member

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    mine was originally done in 05 or 06..i have chris allison(rollingtrip)s old car..i was tuned june 07
     
    #8 bjtyson3, Dec 10, 2007
  9. GTscoob

    GTscoob Black is Beautiful

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    Nice car man. That makes you and Oneiguy both rolling around in WRXatlanta OG mobiles.

    The Ecutek EasyECU allows for some kind of map swapping but I'm not sure if you can tune it yourself. You could always get a new ECU to use with open source and try to sell the Ecutek.
     
    #9 GTscoob, Dec 11, 2007
  10. FACE

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    LOL!!!

    One of Oneiguy's employees bought my 04 WRX!!!
     
    #10 FACE, Dec 11, 2007
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