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HP Tuners DIY Tuning Solution
- Thread starter Exley
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Correct. It will only ask you to spend credits when you attempt to write.
I don't have any EFI live experience, but I know GM switched computers around then and one is better supported then the other on HPT. My buddy tunes for a GM high performance shop. What year is your C5?
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2003 (P01), but I switched to a 2004 P59 ECU so I can run flex fuel. I think since the Gen 3 LS era... EFI has slowly been getting away from the gas stuff.
But I've compared P01/P59 files in HPT software vs what I have in EFI...and EFI has more tables. Big thing for me is that it allows you to define your own custom table that are otherwise missing in the software (a lot of the FF tables) for free. HPT charges something like $150 extra for that. And I really like having a handheld device for logging and flashing (and serial wideband/analog/EGT inputs are included and super easy to use too). And on top of that, at this point I've already paid for the licensing etc....it's gonna take a lot for me to switch over probably.
I haven't seen a complete ECU/TCI ID compatibility list yet....not sure if this is viewable within hpt software itself
Best bet is to open a ticket here https://support.hptuners.com/index.php?/Tickets/Submit with your ECU TCU IDs
thanks!
Nice! You just need some more cars.
Started working on my car over the weekend. HP Tuners seems to follow other suites and does an initial flash that takes 15 - 20 minutes and recommends a battery charger (also set your laptop not to go to sleep
). After this you can write only the calibration data and this process only takes 20-40 seconds. This is great for being able to pull over and make small adjustments in.... mexico. There also appears to be a "return to stock" function. I haven't tried this, but I assume this undoes whatever modification is made to the ECM during the initial flash.
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Sure! Trying to get a couple other people to jump on so we can talk tuning
Might be a noob question (first time using HPT scanner), but it looks like the scanner isn't detecting my ECM as one of the known/supported ones and only showing generic SAE ones. Is there something else I need to do? Or perhaps another service ticket worthy item.
Try the latest beta if you aren't running that already. You can download it right from here: https://www.hptuners.com/downloads/ If they still aren't there I would open a ticket.