Quote from: SM105K on June 07, 2019, 10:45:13 AM
I do enjoy this comment..........and I ask one question.
This is straight form your website....
"Our MyCalibrator Touch Tuner is combined with our proprietary tuning software we have more access, more experience, more tuning support, more parts support and far more world records to back us up than any other tune provider in the marketplace."
How proprietary is your tuning software if other tuners have copied your tunes and passed them off as their own?
Sounds like you are misleading the public about your tuning capabilities and using that as a FLAT OUT BS GIMMICK.
I used to praise your company.
You might be mistaking PCM software vs Tuning software. One is what the PCM runs off of, the other is what you use to make the changes. We took the time to reverse engineer our own software to tune these. By doing so we figured out ever parameter in the PCM, and what it does. But when we install these changes into the PCM, someone can extract those changes with 3rd party software. What is common practice in the industry is, instead of doing your own hard work, you grab someone's file who has, compare it vs a production file, and only concentrate on finding those changed areas.
This is the behind the scenes world that customers are never told. So yes, there really are times that people are praising other tuners for a straight rip off of our tunes with more spark, leaner WOT fueling, and maybe 2-3 other changes. Why aren't our tunes set up that way? safety.
You're talking about 25+ years of experience with tuning fuel injected vehicles, and being at the leading edge. this experience has taught us where to draw the line. Unfortunately people for decades have done this same thing with our tunes, and gained 2-3 years of attention by copying and modifying our tunes as their own, and then disappear. all the while we are here, doing what we know is the right thing for out customers.
The v11 situation was fueling, and the PCM protecting the car as it should.
We've covered it before, but it's still important people understand this, if you are out of fuel, you have 3 options:
Add more fueling capability - Best option
Reduce the need for that amount of fuel (reduce power under those conditions that exceed the limit of fueling) - good option, and has the advantage of being free
Reduce the amount of fuel needed only - risky option, because as you lean it out all it's doing is taking a safety net away
people commonly mis-categorize their cars "running ok" or "Making more power" to somehow be indicators of their calibrators skill set. When in reality, WOT is the absolute easiest part of any calibration.
but yes, most of what people have access to in 3rd party software indeed directly traces back to us and our calibrations. And yes, people and companies absolutely have done exactly what we just laid out. In fact, the whole situation with Mike, and someone supposedly having the keys to make the injectors work proved this exact point. It was a straight copy of something we figured out years ago when doing injector testing (which achieved what we wanted to test, but didn't make the injectors work to our standards).