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      08-20-2011, 06:58 PM   #13
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Originally Posted by cooler2442 View Post
A flash tune still adjusts similar types of parameters that a piggy back does to create power. Makes your job alot easier if someone has already changed those parameters and decided what works.
This post is complete madness.

Reverse engineering the ECU, communication protocols, flash algorithms, disassembling it to see how it works, finding the look up tables for everything, figuring out how they interact, when they're active, etc. is a much harder job than adjusting fueling, timing, wastegate, and boost settings. WAY harder.

Tuning a car is an order of magnitude easier than hacking an ECU.
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