tuner locked my computer
04-21-2009, 02:34 PM
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tuner locked my computer thunder racing tuned my car and now i can't get into it with HP tuners to change some stuff..... what the heck
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04-21-2009, 03:56 PM
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Call Geoff Skinner at Engine Power Systems (co-founder of Thunder Racing). He can unlock anything.
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04-21-2009, 07:36 PM
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What is your name? I see in your signature that you have a '98 and a '02 Car. First if it is the '98 I have NO way to lock the computer using EFI Live. If it is the newer car it is more likely that a custom OS was applied and HP Tuners won't read it. Send me a PM with your name and I can see what is going on. Anyways if it is locked I can pretty easily unlock it anyways...even if someone else applied the lock. I don't normally lock PCM's so I am not sure how it would have been locked unless some other tuner also worked on the car.
04-21-2009, 08:59 PM
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A lot of people confuse a car with a non stock OS as a car with a locked PCM.
This goes for a OS that came stock in a different year, a HPTuners custom OS or a EFIlive custom OS.
This goes for a OS that came stock in a different year, a HPTuners custom OS or a EFIlive custom OS.
04-22-2009, 07:47 AM
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A stock OS for a different year, should not cause a read file security issue, unless, you have say a 99 pcm in a 98 car with a valid 98 vin number, which will cause a problem using hptuners. With efilive, no issue, since you manually select the target controller type.
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04-22-2009, 04:34 PM
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talked to Geoff he is gonna hook me up and see what the deal is while i'm at it i'm gonna dyno it with the new shot 
may and may not be locked i will say that thunder tuned this car and it has the revs split cam in it with a 100 shot and thats all other than susp and it runs 11.1s @ 125 so i'm loving the car and tune just got really really pissed when it would not let me liciense it on my HP tuners its a NHRA edition 2002 formula i have had it since it was very young so other than thunder tuning it the computer has not been touched oh it also gets 27-28 MPG i daily drive this car
may and may not be locked i will say that thunder tuned this car and it has the revs split cam in it with a 100 shot and thats all other than susp and it runs 11.1s @ 125 so i'm loving the car and tune just got really really pissed when it would not let me liciense it on my HP tuners its a NHRA edition 2002 formula i have had it since it was very young so other than thunder tuning it the computer has not been touched oh it also gets 27-28 MPG i daily drive this car 
