I think the wiki is a great idea. As for inexperienced people blowing their cars up, the whole patch thing requires them to purchase a tachrix cable and figure out how to load a rom with ECUflash. If you can figure that out you have enough brains to know what you are doing.

 

I thought of another thing the Wiki needed yesterday ... but then I forgot. Sorry.

I know that my list isn't complete guys, so please help expand it.

 

This is one of my main goals with the wiki and standard roms. Once we have standard roms there will be fewer XML's needed. Once setup the wiki will absolutely have an XML for each rom ID.

I was thinking of having downloadable from the wiki a rom with tephra mod and a matching XML

and then a rom with tephra plus all of mrfreds stuff (direct boot, 02 simulation, etc...) and a matching XML.

This will be for each ECU version, so probably about 10 different roms and matching xml's.

At this point most of us run every mod that is out there (Lean spool disable, 2byte, direct boost, 02 sim, tephra mod, etc...) Instead of the standard deal being to start with a nearly stock rom and add all that stuff in each time we tune a new car, it should be there other way around. We start with a rom with EVERY mod done to it already and then choose what we don't want to use.

 

I know ... I was just using his case as an example. He's the one guy I know that really knows his stuff but doesn't have the time to keep up with the fast changing developments.

 

Well, I dunno about that. When you think you make something idiot proof, they come out with a better idiot.

We still see threads about how/where to get a Tactrix cable...

 

TB some things i can think of are:

Lean Spool (i didnt see it on your list)
Logging MAT with a GM IAT sensor
Using a WB for closed loop -- eliminating the front NB O2

 

I guess what i meant is if you have enough brains to load a rom and buy a cable and get the rom on the ECU then you have enough brains to understand the ramifications.

 

Yeah you're still not going to win this debate MR Turco, centries of history will always stand as a shining example to the inginuity of idiots haha

 

As I understand it, 015 is in fact the latest ROM from Mitsu for the VIII. However, if the Tephra patches are a priority, only the 014 is considered golden at this point and time.

According to...

Tephra 5.1

Tephra 5.8

 

oh yeah and the forgetfulness of geniuses

 

To be fair, there's been quite a bit going on lately with cables too, with Hamish's recent thread about pinouts, and the talk of Colby's OpenPort 2.0.

dudical, did the EvoM folks indicate whether they'd actually be able to host a wiki, or is it something we'll probably end up hosting elsewhere? (I could probably put something together in relatively short order, if necessary.)

 

why is that? And I ask that in all sincerity, not because I disagree.

 

Even though only 014 has been tested, 015 should work just fine and it's the better rom to use as it is the newest from Mitsu and fixes the p0300 issue.

 

No word yet from EvoM about hosting the wiki. If they can't do it then we will make one ourselves.

 

Ah...becasue Tephra says so.

Perhaps he has not yet received back confirmation on the 015 from reliable and consistent sources. If Joe Schmo says the 015 works on his car, that is a lot different than a shop tuner saying that they use the 015 on every VIII they tune. At least is is to me; I'm still on the 014.