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"The B9 ECU is going to be cracked any moment now"

Old 06-08-2019, 05:01 PM
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The B9 was released in Europe in 2016.

Its time everyone face reality.
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No, there were a few threads about it in the last month or so, with folks hanging on to the hope.
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There are at least 2 companies that seem to have cracked the ECU that I know of. You have to ship them your ECU so they can flash them. No one has come up with a method to flash via OBD2 port yet though that I know of.

https://www.mtm-usa.com/pages/b9-a5-s5-rs5

https://www.hgp-turbo.de/
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Same thing with the new ZR1 corvette the ecu has to be shipped out before you can start to have access to it thru tuning software. Seems like there is a lot more then just plugging in the obd2 involved with these new ecu's.
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Originally Posted by heymoe
There are at least 2 companies that seem to have cracked the ECU that I know of. You have to ship them your ECU so they can flash them. No one has come up with a method to flash via OBD2 port yet though that I know of.

https://www.mtm-usa.com/pages/b9-a5-s5-rs5

https://www.hgp-turbo.de/

I looked at both of those links, and I'm still not certain that the ECU has been cracked. Its not really clear what's going on (at least to me).
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[QUOTE=heymoe;25327905]There are at least 2 companies that seem to have cracked the ECU that I know of. You have to ship them your ECU so they can flash them. No one has come up with a method to flash via OBD2 port yet though that I know of.

Anything wrong with the MTM M-Cantronic plug-in adapter? Looks to be the same as the ECU flash stage 2 in terms of performance. at $1,799US that is a fair price compared to the stage 2. What's the drawback of the M-Cantronic??
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Originally Posted by heymoe
There are at least 2 companies that seem to have cracked the ECU that I know of. You have to ship them your ECU so they can flash them. No one has come up with a method to flash via OBD2 port yet though that I know of.
Anything wrong with the MTM M-Cantronic plug-in adapter? Looks to be the same as the ECU flash stage 2 in terms of performance. at $1,799US that is a fair price compared to the stage 2. What's the drawback of the M-Cantronic??
Sorry, I don't have any experience with any of the MTM engine performance options. Maybe someone else will chime in with some info for you.
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Originally Posted by mdxers1
Originally Posted by heymoe
There are at least 2 companies that seem to have cracked the ECU that I know of. You have to ship them your ECU so they can flash them. No one has come up with a method to flash via OBD2 port yet though that I know of.
Anything wrong with the MTM M-Cantronic plug-in adapter? Looks to be the same as the ECU flash stage 2 in terms of performance. at $1,799US that is a fair price compared to the stage 2. What's the drawback of the M-Cantronic??
Same performance as a JB4 for $450 - MTM is famous for making marked up tunes that sell to wealthy buyers with more dollars than sense.

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