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    any progress on cracking the c7 zr1's ecu????

    title speaks for itself really wanna know if hp tuners is close to cracking the e99 ecu the day it gets unlocked is the day ill aim to get one lol cant leave anything stock

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    So not to get your hopes up. A birdie told me that it has been cracked. However there are issues. I hear gm flashed it back stock overnight after a flash. So basically there is going to have to be some external modules that will have to be made to eliminate wireless communications, and still allow the ecm to think those communications are still present. It looks very doable, but what will the cost be. I understand a very well known contributor on this forum, and zr1 owner is at the forefront of making this possible
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    Sweet I have one customer ready to tune. Lol

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    its likely not going to be anytime soon, and likely not anything anybody is going to want to pay for ie buckets of money
    The explanation I was told was literally it is cost prohibitive. If you thought the l5p stuff was expensive, you better hold on.
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    thanks for the update and gm has me annoyed idk why their making it so hard not being able to tune the car that is half the reason why im holding off on getting one im sure its a definite throw off for other ppl interested in a zr1 to pretty bad call on gm i think

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    Quote Originally Posted by mbray01 View Post
    So not to get your hopes up. A birdie told me that it has been cracked. However there are issues. I hear gm flashed it back stock overnight after a flash. So basically there is going to have to be some external modules that will have to be made to eliminate wireless communications, and still allow the ecm to think those communications are still present. It looks very doable, but what will the cost be. I understand a very well known contributor on this forum, and zr1 owner is at the forefront of making this possible
    SO your saying they can flash OTA???? That is violating about 10 privacy laws. Show me anywhere that says the hardware is LICENSED to us, we own it. This is not Microsoft. Voiding your warranty is a choice. I did mine after 2 weeks of ownership. Plus, that could be dangerous as hell in more ways than I can count.

    Goodbye GM, looks like my 2017 C7 is going to be with me for a loooooooong time.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ghostnotes View Post
    SO your saying they can flash OTA???? That is violating about 10 privacy laws. Show me anywhere that says the hardware is LICENSED to us, we own it. This is not Microsoft. Voiding your warranty is a choice. I did mine after 2 weeks of ownership. Plus, that could be dangerous as hell in more ways than I can count.

    Goodbye GM, looks like my 2017 C7 is going to be with me for a loooooooong time.
    i agree, verbatim.

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    With the do-gooders and Tesla getting there way this is inevitable I feel like. I've been trying to figure out the tunability of other manufactures, I am disappointed I supported GM and bought a new camaro, but I would imagine everyone is doing the same thing, but I may be wrong? I don't think you can really blame all of it on them, Im sure they are trying to appease the EPA and regulators, but with there recent self driving cars campaign there is no way they are going to allow any customization or changing of any software, I don't see how you could when you're "supposedly" going to have cars that drive and update, which if this fictitious "driverless" car thing actually happeneds you will need crowd sourced data and instant updates. The future looks so dismal and by the time I feel like I can get around to getting my place to work on things, all customization and tuning will be illegal, or pointless if anyone can go out and buy a Tesla and run 8s.

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    Ford and dodge and other manufacturers are about to ALL do the same thing.. we are in the “hay day” of it right now

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    The point that is trying to be made here is that the manufacturers will come up with a way to actually lock the cars down. This is the beginning of the self driving car. In order for those to happen, you have to have the ability to forcefully maintain complete and utter control of all systems. If it can be hacked, they dont want it on the road. It doesn't matter what rights you think you have. If you want something, you will have to follow the rules of owning that. This isnt an ipad, this is the beginning of something that is essentially life or death. People dont die when you jailbreak an iphone. This is what the manufacturers see when looking at this. This isn't the epa cracking down on emissions. Honestly I dont think gm really gives a damn about emissions, or locking their ecms to protect emissions integrity. This is so much further forward than that
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    Quote Originally Posted by mbray01 View Post
    The point that is trying to be made here is that the manufacturers will come up with a way to actually lock the cars down. This is the beginning of the self driving car. In order for those to happen, you have to have the ability to forcefully maintain complete and utter control of all systems. If it can be hacked, they dont want it on the road. It doesn't matter what rights you think you have. If you want something, you will have to follow the rules of owning that. This isnt an ipad, this is the beginning of something that is essentially life or death. People dont die when you jailbreak an iphone. This is what the manufacturers see when looking at this. This isn't the epa cracking down on emissions. Honestly I dont think gm really gives a damn about emissions, or locking their ecms to protect emissions integrity. This is so much further forward than that
    Yes this is exactly the way I see it. Maybe one positive thing that may come out of this is more support for what we have now, besides that the future looks pretty dismal

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    Drive and maintain what you have. That way you don't have to buy something new every couple of years. Let the sales drop. Money talks, but just like anything else now, people are getting desensitized to having things taken away from them. This should not just piss us off as enthusiasts, it should piss everyone off who paid 80k for a truck or a 15k KIA. The only near future solution will be custom control units. If you do or are able to make changes in the future, I'm sure they are clever enough to keep safeguards in place for automated driving. That would be an excuse only...The only thing that will change corporate mindsets, and what most people only react to anymore is either force or financial...Try anything else you usually get sent down an endless maze.
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    Quote Originally Posted by mbray01 View Post
    So not to get your hopes up. A birdie told me that it has been cracked. However there are issues. I hear gm flashed it back stock overnight after a flash. So basically there is going to have to be some external modules that will have to be made to eliminate wireless communications, and still allow the ecm to think those communications are still present. It looks very doable, but what will the cost be. I understand a very well known contributor on this forum, and zr1 owner is at the forefront of making this possible
    Sooo, why not pull the CAN bus pins on the ECM when the car is shut down? A simply relay circuit can do that. Or unplug OnStar

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    Quote Originally Posted by mbray01 View Post
    The point that is trying to be made here is that the manufacturers will come up with a way to actually lock the cars down. This is the beginning of the self driving car. In order for those to happen, you have to have the ability to forcefully maintain complete and utter control of all systems. If it can be hacked, they dont want it on the road. It doesn't matter what rights you think you have. If you want something, you will have to follow the rules of owning that. This isnt an ipad, this is the beginning of something that is essentially life or death. People dont die when you jailbreak an iphone. This is what the manufacturers see when looking at this. This isn't the epa cracking down on emissions. Honestly I dont think gm really gives a damn about emissions, or locking their ecms to protect emissions integrity. This is so much further forward than that
    i will have to be dead before i get in a self driving car, you know who writes that software right? the same morons that write the current auto software...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Chris@HPTuners View Post
    i will have to be dead before i get in a self driving car, you know who writes that software right? the same morons that write the current auto software...
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    GM wired the feeds for several needed ECMs together so that we cannot just pull the onstar fuse. If you google it, some are pulling the onstar module and removing the connective chip then putting it back in the car. Slightly more invasive than plug and play but.... it might come down to that for those of us that don't go quietly into the night.

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    I can't believe all the people saying things like wow Tesla has self driving cars, has zero emissions, zero maintenance, dosent breakdown, and cost no money to operate. I think the autopilot and all the other "self driving" features they have now are just basically an extension of adaptive cruise control. There are so many scenarios to account and program for, and idiots think Tesla will have a car you can get into and say an address across the country and it will drive them there while they watch Harry Potter the whole way there, and they think that it will be here in a couple years. And the worst part is they think its the coolest thing ever that they will basically have a car like an iPhone that everyone else has, it will have complete authority and information on where you go and be completely locked down. I could go own forever how mad this makes me and how dismal of an outlook the future has. Anyway sorry for the rant, but I feel we are helpless, we just don't have the numbers to boycott.

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    On the one hand they are making faster and faster cars On the other it seems like we are heading toward a system that reports me to the authorities when I hit the gas.....

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    UE1 with CV3 or UE1 without CV3 ? Different antenna's