Posted By: Anonymous
DIY Re-mapping? - 24/11/2010 13:35
I'm hoping flea/neil can jump in here..
In short, how do companies do it, software wise? I take it even with OBD, there's no industry standard piece of software for accessing fuel/ignition maps?
Do they just do it with trial and error, hitting the ECU with random data and seeing what comes back? I would imagine it's far easier with removable chip-based ECUs as you can dump the chip and examine the contents but where do you start with OBD type ECUs?
I know from playing with the Punto 1.2. 16v ECU (with help from Neil) that getting in in the first place aint exactly easy, even more so if there's no documentation relating to the data protocol.
I'm not looking for a full blown tutorial here but if anyone knows how these guys go about it and wouldn't mind sharing, it'd be very appreciated.
I'm doing some web design for a race engine builder at the moment and I'm hoping he'd let me play on his dyno at some point - obviously though, being race orientated, he maps standalone ECUs so not much point in asking him!
Oh and of course, if I get anywhere with this, I'll share my findings, gratis
In short, how do companies do it, software wise? I take it even with OBD, there's no industry standard piece of software for accessing fuel/ignition maps?
Do they just do it with trial and error, hitting the ECU with random data and seeing what comes back? I would imagine it's far easier with removable chip-based ECUs as you can dump the chip and examine the contents but where do you start with OBD type ECUs?
I know from playing with the Punto 1.2. 16v ECU (with help from Neil) that getting in in the first place aint exactly easy, even more so if there's no documentation relating to the data protocol.
I'm not looking for a full blown tutorial here but if anyone knows how these guys go about it and wouldn't mind sharing, it'd be very appreciated.
I'm doing some web design for a race engine builder at the moment and I'm hoping he'd let me play on his dyno at some point - obviously though, being race orientated, he maps standalone ECUs so not much point in asking him!
Oh and of course, if I get anywhere with this, I'll share my findings, gratis