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Old Apr 21, 2009 | 02:34 PM
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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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Old Apr 21, 2009 | 02:44 PM
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Old Apr 21, 2009 | 02:57 PM
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It's probably got an EFIlive custom OS applied. I'd bet money on it. Which means it's not really locked, you just can't access it with HPT.
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Old Apr 21, 2009 | 02:58 PM
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Old Apr 21, 2009 | 03:12 PM
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cool well it has to be corrected and i have called the like 5 times no reply
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Old Apr 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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Old Apr 21, 2009 | 06:33 PM
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Originally Posted by Patrick G
Call Geoff Skinner at Engine Power Systems (co-founder of Thunder Racing). He can unlock anything.

225-751-8500.
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Old Apr 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.
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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.
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Old Apr 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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Old Apr 22, 2009 | 10:56 AM
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Originally Posted by slow
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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Even then our software won't have a problem reading it out, it will look at the os mainly to determine what pcm it uses since our software can automatically determine what pcm it is equipped with based off of this.

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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
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Foff667, good to know, but I am correct saying you will not be able to flash a vehicle with that condition, since it is not a valid vin/os combination?

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Old Apr 22, 2009 | 10:39 PM
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Foff667, good to know, but I am correct saying you will not be able to flash a vehicle with that condition, since it is not a valid vin/os combination?

Ryan
i'll be able to scan it when he is done there is no reason i can't
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Originally Posted by slow
Foff667, good to know, but I am correct saying you will not be able to flash a vehicle with that condition, since it is not a valid vin/os combination?

Ryan
Correct with an asterisk, but yeah if theres a vin/os pair in the pcm that you read out with our software you will not be able to license the file until the vin/os issue is fixed.
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