It's not ghetto if the map exists and you are trick-forcing the ecu to read your manipulated map. Either way, there's always more than one way to skin a cat. I have been personally hacking stock computers for well over a decade and am glad to see people still doing it. It's just very irking when a finding is shared and the initial responses from some are "ghetto, not the best, do it this way" etc. Not everyone wants to drop a g-note on a computer for just a couple features that can be manipulated to do so - specially when OEM is already there, already wired and just needs some software rewritten.
When I started posting in these forums, I had already been wrenching for 1.5 decades and we learned things the hard way - trial and error, or by apprenticing - today's wrenchers don't realize how easy life is when you have a wealth of information at your fingertips, and don't have to have a library of books and spend hours thumbing to find answers. My first top end rebuild was on a 73 510 pickup truck I bought for $250. Took me 3x to get it right since I had no idea th chain tensioner needed a wedge of wood to hold the tensioner from popping out of the bracket - stretched 2 chains trying to get it right. Now, you just put that junk in google and have 100 answers in .00003 seconds.
EDIT: Only drawback to today's info is recycled BAD information with no first hand experience. Several times I found bad information that was just spread too far to be corrected.
Man, I just aged myself :(
When I started posting in these forums, I had already been wrenching for 1.5 decades and we learned things the hard way - trial and error, or by apprenticing - today's wrenchers don't realize how easy life is when you have a wealth of information at your fingertips, and don't have to have a library of books and spend hours thumbing to find answers. My first top end rebuild was on a 73 510 pickup truck I bought for $250. Took me 3x to get it right since I had no idea th chain tensioner needed a wedge of wood to hold the tensioner from popping out of the bracket - stretched 2 chains trying to get it right. Now, you just put that junk in google and have 100 answers in .00003 seconds.
EDIT: Only drawback to today's info is recycled BAD information with no first hand experience. Several times I found bad information that was just spread too far to be corrected.
Man, I just aged myself :(
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