Help with Hypertech
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Drifting
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Help with Hypertech
How can I clear data off a Hypertech. The guy wants to sell it to me cheap but he no longer owns the car and his stock program is in the programmer. Hypertech will not help, they just want to sell another programmer.
Intermediate
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From: Jeffersonville IN
Re: Help with Hypertech (snaketr)
The only way is to find the car he programend and download the performance program back in. It has to be the same car because the programer holds the vin number of the car that it programed. Without the car the programer is crap.
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From: Texas
Re: Help with Hypertech (snaketr)
Yea thats what I was told. Kind of makes the LT1 edit a good buy instead.
Of course for serious tuning of fuel and ignition parameters you need scanning/datalogging software ($150 - $300) plus MS Excel to perform some analysis.
On top of all that, you need a cheap laptop ($200 & up). It can add up quickly.
None the less, you can jump in and just do the basic stuff (fans, gears, fuel cutoff, CAGS for a manual, etc) without forking over the $ for scanning software right away.
:cheers:
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Drifting
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Re: Help with Hypertech (96GS#007)
This is actually for a friend of mine, I use DFI on my cars. You are correct about the VIN, the problem is the car was sold. We have tried tracking it down with no success. HPP basically said oh well buy another one. Oh yea it is a 96.
