Jeff's winter Corvette thread.

[Jeff V.]

She said good looking too....

True. I think that car is hideous. But it does have that "gawk at me factor" and there's no denying they're stupid fast.

[vr4]

[quote=""Chris GTO TT""]Me on the other hand I don't know if I have ever been more unhappy with my vehicles as I have in the last 2.5 years [/quote]

We've all been saying for about 2.5 years...... Raptor

[Chris GTO TT]

And I still cannot fathom spending $35k-45k on a 100k mile ford

[vegasidol]

[quote=""Jeff V.""] :suspect2:

[/quote]

Lol. Nice. I do think Tesla's are cool. Some are better looking than others.

[DCIV]

[quote=""vegasidol""]Lol. Nice. I do think Tesla's are cool. Some are better looking than others.[/quote]

Their new truck could be pretty cool, looks like butt.


Coop

[alienviking]

All their cars look like butt.

[Jeff V.]

I'd drive a pre-facelift Model S if I could get one cheap enough.

[vr4]

[quote=""Jeff V.""]I'd drive a pre-facelift Model S if I could get one cheap enough.[/quote]

This.

The roadster didn't look too bad either

[mjannusch]

I'd prefer the pre-facelift S or X, but regardless of that they are still the best electric vehicles you can get.

[Jeff V.]

It looks like Ford isn't screwing around with that new Mach-E. Sucks that it won't be out until early 2021 though.

[mjannusch]

The "regular" version looks lame from a performance perspective, but the GT version could be cool. The GT is going to be expensive though.

[Jeff V.]

I finally broke down and bought a spare PCM to use for some of my bench programming stuff. These things are pretty cheap if you get one out of a truck. They're also really beefy. It's chunky aluminum and considerably bigger than the 4G Eclipse computer, which was in turn quite a bit bigger than a 3S computer.



I need to write my Corvette's VIN to it. From everything I've read, the software won't let you change the VIN. Ok...so I'll just open it up and write the EEPROM manually.

Except...I think it's welded shut.



Friction stir welding maybe? That's cool. It'll be a huge pain in the ass, but it's cool.

[DCIV]

Haha. I like where this is going.


Coop

[mjannusch]

I have a spare PCM as well. Early on it wasn't well known whether GM could detect flashes to these ECUs (they can), so I had one as a spare to flash away on - but I guess there's some way they can detect if you swapped ECUs in the car as well. I haven't really been paying attention to all that, so maybe some of that has changed now.

[Jeff V.]

I think GM corporate can dig that info out. It's not available in the scan tools. There's a copy of GMs diagnostic protocols floating around on the internet, but it dates back to 2010, before all this reflash counter nonsense. If I can get the VIN changed on this thing, I might try to see if I can dig it out. I'll have to use one of the dummy VINs I have an SPS subscription for. I don't want there for be 50 flashes on my real VIN

[DCIV]

What changes in the tune are you gonna make?


Coop

[Jeff V.]

None. The only reason I got this was to build a setup where I can bench flash other parts, like the infotainment stuff I've been working on. The first thing the official GM software does is checks to see if there's a working engine module.

Did you ever see the Star Trek movie where they had to go back in time to get some whales to talk to an alien space probe? It's like that.

[aaronatstate]

[quote=""Jeff V.""]Did you ever see the Star Trek movie where they had to go back in time to get some whales to talk to an alien space probe? It's like that. [/quote]

Such a good movie

It absolutely boggles my mind how everything is integrated now.

Also, friction welding is pretty sweet, lets just spin/rub something fast enough on the metal to get it hot and weld it. It also makes sense to me they are welded shut, cause aren't they normally in the engine bay now, so they have to be waterproof right?

[Jeff V.]

Some of them are in the engine bay. Mine is sandwiched between the passenger side fender and the car's inner structure.

The Mitsu ECU is in the engine bay too, and they made due with an o-ring and a plastic splash shield. Things have changed a little bit since then though.

[aaronatstate]

[quote=""Jeff V.""]Some of them are in the engine bay. Mine is sandwiched between the passenger side fender and the car's inner structure.

The Mitsu ECU is in the engine bay too, and they made due with an o-ring and a plastic splash shield. Things have changed a little bit since then though.[/quote]

GM doesn't want "Jeffs" messing with their stuff