There seems to be a growing trend of people who are intersted in socketing/chipping their ecus to be able to tune freewares. The attraction being that the ecus are free besides the cost of socketing/chipping their stock ecus.
I've been able to use Uberdata on my own car now for testing purposes, and have been asked many questions with regard to tuning these eproms and other how to's. Im not the best person to speak to about socketing these ecus, but I'll try and help where possibly.
Those who are interested in this can ask the questions right here in thsi thread, and ill try and give as much support for this as possible. (Mods, hope this doesnt outstep any rules, i couldnt see any, so Im posting it up, if it does, please let me know which part and I'll modify where necessary).
For socketing/chipping ecus there are a few people on ozhonda here that can do this for you, and this is not an advertisement for anyone etc, so do ur maths and find out who they are.
Some common questions are:
1) can my obd2 ecu be socketed/chipped to be tuneable? Apparently there is a way, but the costs far outweight the benefit. Its much easier to just get a conversion harness from obd2 to obd1 and then use a socketed obd1 ecu.
2) which freeware is best? I dont think anyone can best answer that unless they have gone through each and every program and tested them. I've used the Crome and the Uberdata, and they both work fine if you know what you are doing.
3) I've been told these freewares are crap and dont/wont work, is this true? My answer is pretty simple, the results speak for themselves, there are a few members on this board who run these freewares on their daily driven rides and they work well and run reliably! If the freewares are that crap, how is it that these examples are possible? Answer, Id like to think that the freewares work :)
Ok thats the end of the list I can think of, im hoping to take pics where possible to help with this post, as visual aids really do help. Just shoot your questions on here and lets leave the ecu bashing BS out of this, if you think Hondata is great, thats great, but dont go posting about that here. If you think proECU is great, thats great too, but thsi post isnt about which ECU is good, better or best.
Lets keep it clean and fire questions away. If I dont know the answer I will simply say I dont know! Id particularly like to thank Poid for his help in getting me up to scratch with this stuff. Thanks Pedeh!
