Darryl@pcmtec

Hello Baboon, Yes we are planning that. Currently it would require a manual process but we hope to automate in the future. It will be a simple upgrade like you say and will be the price difference between the two products. You will get an extra vehicle tune capability which could also be used to upgrade a template from Professional to Workshop level. We will continue to add features with the road map being ZF transmission support (being tested now, with an Alpha tester this week), the Workshop version will follow not long after and then we will work on the scanner.

Hi Baboon, The demo version does not allow editing or reading existing calibrations. That is only available in the purchased versions. As part of any purchase we provide access to a stock file database which has all the factory tec files we have (Workshop format). You do not need to license these to have a look, edit and share them. You only need licensing when you want to flash a car. The factory database is a great way to learn as you can see where Ford tunes their vehicles across a range. Something like HACCK is a great platform with about 60 different versions, some with ZF gearbox as well. We have A3YA as HAAN9H2. HAAN9 is fully covered and we have a workshop version for HAAN9H2. Bluetooth ELM devices do not have the capability to read or write the Ford calibration as it requires 18V to be applied to OBD2 pin 13 to allow security unlock. I am using the VXDIAG VCX NANO and it is working well. I had a fault with mine and it was due to the very long cable that comes with it and it got caught and pulled out or the main unit. It worked for about a week after that and then failed. Easily fixed by squeezing the tiny usb plug in as it was looking contact with the cable. Yes it was about $120 from a local supplier and comes with Ford IDS although I never used it.

Carl, that is correct and this is the table to alter. It is the way Ford does it. The other table of interest (again throttle angle) is the Open loop throttle transition table. This table says when to change from closed loop fuel control to open loop fuel control based on throttle position.This table will need altering on a turbo car with modifications as it is easy to achieve 10psi of boost on very low throttle and without altering this table the vehicle will still be doing closed loop fuel control (rich lean cycle).

What parameters to enable stall up of your Falcon with an automatic Warning. These settings will make it VERY easy to break a standard tailshaft. If you are testing this out with a standard tailshaft, use medium brake and no handbrake. If you have the handbrake on with full brakes, you may end up needing a new tailshaft! Also, you will heat up the transmission torque converter very quickly doing this, don't do it repeatedly with a standard transmission and cooler. The first set work on BA/BF/FG MK Is. You may need the auF15789 parameter to get your MK II stalling up. For example you will need this to stall up an FGX XR6 Sprint (HAER1). This will mean you will no longer need to stall up in second gear. Spark and Fuel Cut parameters Under “Torque Limit” you will need to set the torque requestor (source) ratios for the Auto transmission to 0. Torque Source 1 is Transmission truncation, Torque Source 7 is Transmission Shift. The numbers are in the range 0 to 1 with 0 being no reduction and 1 full reduction. The two tables to set here are auF0261 and auF0262: In this example setting torque source 7 to 0 is not a very good choice as it leads to firmer shifts (no reduction in torque on transmission gear change). Electronic Throttle Parameters Next the the two throttle cut tables will need to be changed. You will need to alter auF0264 (RPM Limit) and auF0265 (torque limit) under “Drive by Wire”. auF15789 for MK IIs that don’t stall up (FGX XR6 Sprint and others). Under "DriveTrain/Stall up Protection and Manual Launch Control" there is a switch to stop stall up. Search for auF15789: Change the value from 1 to 0.

The priorities are ZF flashing on J2534 devices and PCM logging. Assuming there is a demand for it we will look at ZF logging after these two are completed. With over 2500 items defined for logging you would hope there is something to log which map is being used. Do you know if Eric ever put the logging information I got for him into HP Tuners?

Yortt, that can be achieved quite economically. If you are doing it for him then that will cost 3 credits ($150 + GST) and he will not need to purchase anything. If he wants to tune then he will need the Enthusiast version ($330 GST inc) and a dongle ($120 for something like VX DIAG Nano, approximately $300 for Tactrix, ...) unless he can borrow one for the flash process (we do not tie the dongle to the software). I am currently using the VX DIAG Nano ($120 on eBay from Aus, took 2 days to get to me from Sydney) until my Tactrix is replaced. Slow but effective and it even comes with a "free" Ford IDS

Usual Goals: BA, most common is to put HAAT2/3 into earlier BAs to get the added resolution of the SD/Spark/... tables. You should buy the FPV oil pressure sensor to work around the Check Engine light that this will cause. FG MK II most are after FGX XR6 Sprint calibrations (HAER1UA/HAER1UB) into their turbo 6. You will need Ford IDS or FORScan to fix keys, BCM, ...if you intend using a spare PCM to do this. The process for achieving this has been outlined under the FAQ section on the pcmtec.com. We will work with the customer to achieve these goals. Known issues: Flashing anything other than like will cause issues like doing FG -> BF, BF -BA, etc. We now know that flashing FG MK 1 into a MK II and visa versa has issues, may not brick the PCM but car usually wont start. You need to match the ZF TCM with the model. FG ZF TCM will not work in BF and a BF ZF TCM will not work if swapped into a FG. If you intend doing this then you need to find the correct TCM (mechatronics) and swap them around. I believe it works best then if you match the PCM/TCM calibrations. Futures: Gear based boos control for BF and FG MK 1. This is a custom operating system and we may have a look at this in the future. I played with it in my Territory turbo and was not happy with my WOT timer but that may be fixable now that we have a much better understanding of the DMRs being used. For an AWD Territory it may be a waste as they really only start to spin the wheels after about 19psi. My preference is for an OS at least HACH3 as it brings in a two two dimensional tables to allow boost to be controlled depending on throttle/RPM. FG Mk 1. Most promising possibility. My preference is HAEDH (first) and I will use the gear based boost control from the V8 Supercharged (very different to how it is done in the MK IIs BTW). All the workshops I ask say "it would be nice" but will never use it". This might be different if we do it.

Loki, one thing to remember about IDLE is that spark is one of the things the PCM uses to control IDLE. For example if IDLE RPM is dropping it will increase spark angle to get it back to the target. This is simplifying it quite a bit but as you say noted your idle spark was moving and it would be interesting to see if the RPM moving as well.

A way is to flash the vehicle and read it back with PCMTec and save the file way. This could be easily achieved with your bench harness. Email me with the details on how many, etc...

RE "No, not unless you change the VIN and/or the OSID, see Note"'........ does this include any future upgrades or additions? Future upgrades and additions will use the same licensing model so yes it does include upgrades and additions. For example ZF editing/Flashing will be included in the Professional version and the Scanner will be included in all versions at no extra cost. So PCMTec tune files are not scrambled? are they in a bin file format? The tune files are not scrambled but are stored in PCMTec ".tec" file format. Once licensed they can be shared and edited by anyone with a licensed version of PCMTec. We consider this a real strength of the product as it allows collaboration with colleges. Can your software clone a back up PCM in case something goes wrong? Yes . When you read the calibration and save the tec file then this can be used as a backup. You will need to license it to flash it back into the car so no different to HP Tuners in that respect. The process would be for you to read the car and send us the tec file. We would "merge" in the Sprint strategy and send it back to you. You would then license the file, edit it and flash it into the car. This would use one vehicle license (3 credits of the 6 that come with Professional). For you information the Workshop package allows "factory reset" and this will do the same thing without the calibration merge. This is similar to what they do with Ford IDS. The other thing I will do is send you the factory ZF calibrations for the XR6 Sprint, your original factory calibration (including ZF calibration that Ford released with it) and the tuned calibration as tec files so you can easily compare the differences. email me the full name of the strategy and I can send you a tec "Demo" file to have a look at.

The VCM license will only work with the original calibration assuming it is already licensed. If you want to edit it in HP Tuners you will need to re-license the Sprint tune with VCM Suite again (HP Tuners use a VIN/Strategy in the license key). I will ensure they are copied over. The compare is being updated to allow you to do this yourself like HP Tuners (copy over differences functions). We cannot flash the ZF just yet. You could use HPT to do that if you license the vehicle as in step 1. Yes compare works on both the Engine and the Gearbox (ZF). Yes, that is the default but it is your choice (you may edit the OSID/Strategy to stop other HP Tuners opening the calibration). PCMTec does not rely on these areas to determine the calibration and that is why we can open and edit any scrambled calibrations. No, not unless you change the VIN and/or the OSID, see Note. Note: The PCMTec license for the Vehicle is based on Serial Number, VIN and OSID. If you change VIN or OSID then a new license would be required. PCMTec does not license on strategy. For example if you license a vehicle with an OSID of HACCK then you are free to edit any of the 60 odd Ford factory calibrations they have.

Yortt, This can be done now. The process would be to read the car but not license it, send us the file and we will put in the XR6 Sprint calibration and then you can license and flash it into the car.

Yortt, For the XR6 turbo the only operating system with the ability to do boost by gear is HAER1. Customers have put this into their FG MK II XR6 Turbos with success including updating the ZF cal. PCMTec will support this in the next release with the Workshop version directly and the Professional version on a per user request. With the earlier MK 1, putting this operating system in the car does not work (the car wont start), a few are exploring options. This is something that happens when you try and put MK II code into MK 1 PCMs. If you have a MK II and install HAER1 you may change the ability to stall the car up. I believe stall up is disabled with all MK IIs but have not checked yet. We resolved this in September. For prior models if there is enough interest we could spend a month doing the code. I did it for my BF Territory Turbo but was not satisfied with the timer for overboost. Another person did it for his BA Falcon as well prior to me doing it in my car.