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Title: who made the tune? Post by: Stompen on July 13, 2012, 01:56:43 AM Is it possible to find out who made the tuned file? Is there a signature that could give us a clue?
I have a friend who just bought a Golf GTI mk4 (1.8) the guy that sold it claimed it had 220HP. there were no reciepts in the car from the tuning company, he didn`t know what company tuned it, and I cant find any tuners here in Norway that have 220Hp tunes for this car.. It runs stock DV, stock turbo, stock exhaust and stock inj, so I find it hard to believe this car has a stage 2 chip.. Title: Re: who made the tune? Post by: thom337 on July 13, 2012, 06:18:26 AM Browse around in 8-bit for ASCII...usually you'll find a watermark towards the end of a FLASH .bin. You may also want to check the EEPROM, it might have a company name in it too.
Title: Re: who made the tune? Post by: pvl on July 14, 2012, 05:59:55 PM try to read it out. Then take a hex-editor and open the file in it, and search for plain text.
Most tuners leave a 'hint' or 'spam' in their chips. 220bhp is quite alot for such a car on a fully stock config. Better dyno it, or do the vcds-dyno thing. That will tell +/- what it has as of power. scroll-on as the english translation is halfway down on the website : http://www.whoopsie.de/home/doku.php?id=software:obddyno Have fun logging !!! If you do it correctly in 3'rd or 4'th gear, you get pretty accurate dynoplots. Cheers, PvL Title: Re: who made the tune? Post by: Stompen on July 15, 2012, 02:23:46 PM Thats what I thought as well. stage 1 is normally 195-ish hp, and anything above usually means changing components...
I`ll try finding the signature in the file, and then try logging to see what he actually have under the bonnet. Thanks :) |