Break-thru: Reading ACD ECU with EcuFlash
Oct 31, 2012, 02:43 PM
#512
Yeah its pretty dumb how easy it is, I have no excuse for being 2.5 years behind the 8 ball. Kind of like when I waited 3 months before I started doing SD, as soon as I did it I didnt want to go back to MAF cars. Expect an announcement tomorrow of us getting into the ACD flash business 
Aaron
Aaron
Oct 31, 2012, 06:56 PM
#516
Evo X was easy when I found a factory harness end The ACD wasnt too bad when I realised I looked at the diagram in a mirror. 8/9 harness I can do in my sleep, just lazy and dont want to hack an otherwise good harness. Looking for a Mitsu harness that has the right ECU plugs to cut out that isnt from an Evo. IX is easy thats a Lancer Auto...looking for a 2G harness for the Evo 8.
The ACD wasnt too bad when I realised I looked at the diagram in a mirror. 8/9 harness I can do in my sleep, just lazy and dont want to hack an otherwise good harness. Looking for a Mitsu harness that has the right ECU plugs to cut out that isnt from an Evo. IX is easy thats a Lancer Auto...looking for a 2G harness for the Evo 8.
Sep 5, 2013, 07:46 AM
#520
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Sep 6, 2013, 06:48 AM
#523
Especially something that impacts handling which seems to have changing needs even more than retuning for weather.
I want to tinker. I want to go drive and hit a corner. I want to pull over then try to dial out the negative qualities of that corner. I may want to do this 50 times to get that one corner just right.
I may want to play with adjusting ACD lock for fuel economy. Kinda like a setting that minimizes friction losses when I'm not trying to be competitive... (Think times when ASC is on and just cruising)
The value of self tuning is what initially brought me to the Evo. I hated being forced to pay others to get every little tweak. Then they argue with you about what you want and refuse to let you tinker.
I'd rather buy an M800 Motec and use their diff controller ($$$$) before paying even $100 to get some guy to give me 6 ACD maps. Why? Because I'm not locked out of the former. The latter is a money pit that never ends. Change tires, new tune. Go from 18's to 17's and now the ACD tune is off again. No. Plus I'd get nothing but flack if I tried to retune the ACD for anything other than motorsport use (i.e. fuel economy).
Figured I'd be honest about why I'm not biting.
Sep 6, 2013, 12:26 PM
#525
People are waiting to do it themselves....
Especially something that impacts handling which seems to have changing needs even more than retuning for weather.
I want to tinker. I want to go drive and hit a corner. I want to pull over then try to dial out the negative qualities of that corner. I may want to do this 50 times to get that one corner just right.
I may want to play with adjusting ACD lock for fuel economy. Kinda like a setting that minimizes friction losses when I'm not trying to be competitive... (Think times when ASC is on and just cruising)
The value of self tuning is what initially brought me to the Evo. I hated being forced to pay others to get every little tweak. Then they argue with you about what you want and refuse to let you tinker.
I'd rather buy an M800 Motec and use their diff controller ($$$$) before paying even $100 to get some guy to give me 6 ACD maps. Why? Because I'm not locked out of the former. The latter is a money pit that never ends. Change tires, new tune. Go from 18's to 17's and now the ACD tune is off again. No. Plus I'd get nothing but flack if I tried to retune the ACD for anything other than motorsport use (i.e. fuel economy).
Figured I'd be honest about why I'm not biting.
Especially something that impacts handling which seems to have changing needs even more than retuning for weather.
I want to tinker. I want to go drive and hit a corner. I want to pull over then try to dial out the negative qualities of that corner. I may want to do this 50 times to get that one corner just right.
I may want to play with adjusting ACD lock for fuel economy. Kinda like a setting that minimizes friction losses when I'm not trying to be competitive... (Think times when ASC is on and just cruising)
The value of self tuning is what initially brought me to the Evo. I hated being forced to pay others to get every little tweak. Then they argue with you about what you want and refuse to let you tinker.
I'd rather buy an M800 Motec and use their diff controller ($$$$) before paying even $100 to get some guy to give me 6 ACD maps. Why? Because I'm not locked out of the former. The latter is a money pit that never ends. Change tires, new tune. Go from 18's to 17's and now the ACD tune is off again. No. Plus I'd get nothing but flack if I tried to retune the ACD for anything other than motorsport use (i.e. fuel economy).
Figured I'd be honest about why I'm not biting.
You misunderstood sba. He was one of the guys that did all the breakthroughs for ACD tuning. Check back in this thread. He did everything along with a few other guys for free. Something like tephra for the ecu roms. Some people took advantage of the open source community and started charging for these ACD tunes as if it was of their own creation. That left sba and others that actually put some grunt work into making this possible with no $ for their work (though they never were expecting it) and they watched others make profit off their work. Thats when this thread went dead cold because I'm sure no one wanted to publish any more work that would get stolen and used for profit.
Its like if tephra did all that work on the open forum with others, then someone came in and took the roms and codes, methods of tuning it, etc. and started charging for not only the tune but the rom like it was their own original creation (similar to ecutek).