Busted Finger (Tactrix 1.3 cable clone) question
 

Anyone tried the cable from Busted Finger Motorsports cable on a EVO8? I cant seem to find a Tactrix 1.3 anywhere.

http://www.bustedfingermotorsports.com/bfmflash.html

Tactrix 1.3 cables are no longer sold from tactrix but you can buy cables from EVOSCAN website. http://evoscan.com/evoscan-gps-obdii-cables

1.3R and 1.3U cables

I wondered how long it would be before other 1.3-based cables started appearing; I'm curious what they did about the serial number. :)

Note that they're marketing this specifically for Subarus, which don't need our flash connector. The "flash block" that they're referring to in the description is a small standalone plug (2001-2002 and 2003-2005) that enables flashing on their ECUs. For us, sending power to the ECU's flash pin requires special timing, and so is triggered off a pin on the FTDI chip inside the housing itself (the small white connector that connects back to the main cable).

So I suspect you'll probably be able to log with that cable, but flashing anything Mitsubishi isn't going to happen. Rather funny too; with a very small amount of effort (prior to doing a production run of them) and maybe $0.50 in additional parts, they could have made it work.

So this cable won't work with ECUFlash? He claims its fully functional and tested and he seems to have a pretty good rep.

Subaru owners should be able to use EcuFlash with it, but unless there's more to that cable than pictured, it won't flash an Evo.

http://www.bustedfingermotorsports.com/imgs/OBD_BFM.jpg

Note the missing flashing connection (the white plug, wired back to the main OBD-II housing):

http://allobd.com/prodimages/Tactrix...1.3U_large.png

I confirm that, with this cable your can log data with evoscan but I'm not able to read and flash the ecu.

It is just good for the subaru.