Factory PCM updates and aftermarket tunes - Toyota GR86, 86, FR-S and Subaru BRZ Forum & Owners Community

brillo · 05-26-2013, 10:58 AM

the recent announcement of a PCM update dealing with the injectors had me wondering how factory updates are handled by ECUtek and the tuners that use their software. Does ecutek get a copy of the updated stock reflash and then push a version that can be modified out to its customers who will layer on their custome tune?

Want to make sure that these kinda fixes will always trickle down to us that run custom tunes.

xjohnx · 05-26-2013, 11:03 AM

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Originally Posted by brillo

the recent announcement of a PCM update dealing with the injectors had me wondering how factory updates are handled by ECUtek and the tuners that use their software. Does ecutek get a copy of the updated stock reflash and then push a version that can be modified out to its customers who will layer on their custome tune?

Want to make sure that these kinda fixes will always trickle down to us that run custom tunes.

It seems most tuners have already (or have plans to) incorporated this fix in their latest tunes.

Mikem53 · 05-26-2013, 11:48 AM

What recent announcement?

xjohnx · 05-26-2013, 12:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Mikem53

What recent announcement?

http://www.ft86club.com/forums/showp...2&postcount=65

Mikem53 · 05-26-2013, 12:37 PM

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Originally Posted by xjohnx

http://www.ft86club.com/forums/showp...2&postcount=65

Thanks.. So their answer is to pull some timing at 5200 rpm and above?
I don't think I want this fix..

Xero-Limit · 05-26-2013, 12:52 PM

That's the A01 revision, the suffix is the region.

Note that this applies to the transient timing retard, so in between shifts. You will NOT notice any performance difference. I should also mention that EcuTek saw this vulnerability before it was public here, and as we happen read the documentation, we've been altering this for a couple of months to play it safe

If you have a tune from an EcuTek tuner, just get an update with the A01x or request your A00x to be updated. It is a 3 minute process if no features are changed.

05-26-2013, 10:58 AM	#1
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Mikem53 Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2013 Drives: FR-S 6MT Location: Somewhere in Space Posts: 1,565 Thanks: 500 Thanked 882 Times in 433 Posts Mentioned: 5 Post(s) Tagged: 0 Thread(s)	What recent announcement?

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Xero-Limit Join Date: Nov 2012 Drives: JDL Turbo FRS, 335SC BRZ (ret) Location: Lehigh Valley, PA Posts: 938 Thanks: 368 Thanked 1,550 Times in 527 Posts Mentioned: 380 Post(s) Tagged: 6 Thread(s)	That's the A01 revision, the suffix is the region. Note that this applies to the transient timing retard, so in between shifts. You will NOT notice any performance difference. I should also mention that EcuTek saw this vulnerability before it was public here, and as we happen read the documentation, we've been altering this for a couple of months to play it safe If you have a tune from an EcuTek tuner, just get an update with the A01x or request your A00x to be updated. It is a 3 minute process if no features are changed.

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