For the not-so-good guys and their customers, though, breaking in likely won't be easy, nor quick, nor cheap. Military on, who knows how many flaming hoops will be involved in cracking the C8 Corvette code, or what kind of digital red carpets will be rolled out for the good guys. Given the encryption tools GM would have with a brand new, dedicated platform GM consulted with the Not now and possibly not ever."Īs for choosing who are the good guys, we don't recall seeing GM anoint aftermarket upgrades beyond in-house efforts from GM Performance Motor,Ĭhevrolet Performance, and the like. One forum member said he spoke to a principal at a popular truck tuner last week and was told, "he can tune the 5.3L AFM with 6 speed auto - no go on the 5.3L DFM with 8 speed auto. MCT points out, certain 2019-model-year GM trucks are still waiting on aftermarket tuning solutions. Same tuners who'd worked the Duramax ECU.
The E99 ECU in the 2019 Corvette ZR1 took a year to crack - to rebuild, rather, by the The ECU in GM's 2017ĭiesel took two years to crack, and it would be truer to call the tuner's result a rebuilt chip. Taken by itself, the line makes less sense the more we think about it.Īs we discussed in the first post, GM has gotten cleverer at making life difficult for the aftermarket lately, if not exactly cutting tuners out. We didn't speak to Reuss about the matter, so we aren't sure if we're missing anything about that line. There's a clean side and dirty side to that."Ĭorvette, naturally, which brings us to the Reuss' pertinent comment about that ECU: "I don't wanna cut anybody out from anĪftermarket standpoint, but we have to pick and choose who are the good guys." MCT, "Global B I think is going to be the standard of the industry in terms of the encrypted messaging that travels on our bus between modules. Calling the cybersecurity component "very,
Reuss' comments have to do with the primary threat to such a system:
GM vehicles, capable of supporting advanced driver aids like Super Cruise, full autonomy, far greater and constant connectivity that enables features such as over-the-air updates, the growing importance of cloud computing, andĮlectric vehicles. The context is that the Global B system has been designed to serve the next decade of MCT asked GM President Mark Reuss about theĬorvette's new Global B electrical architecture, which is shared with the new The condensed version is that, according to the outlet's source, "successfully flash-tuning, reprogramming and otherwise altering the engine control unit to increase power output will be next to impossible." During the reveal event for the We're curious how much power it'll make when it's ready for resale, and how much it'll cost.Muscle Cars & Trucks reported a few days ago on the advanced encryption written into theĢ020 Chevrolet Corvette.
So we're betting it's still in the development phase. Though the shop has a C8 turbo kit section on its website, it's not populated with any products just yet. On the very last run, it was able to lay down 736 horsepower and 669 lb-ft of torque to the rear wheels making it, as far as we can tell, the most powerful C8 on the road right now.Įxtreme Turbo Systems hasn't released any more info on its setup, like how many turbos are on the car, or how it was able to crack the C8's ECU for tuning purposes. According to the video's description, the car is equipped with a "proprietary tuning solution and methanol kit," running 7.5 psi of boost. the moment Chevrolet unveiled the C8 Corvette, it was inevitable that tuning. The tuner, famous for building some of the quickest drag cars on the planet, released a short video on its YouTube channel showing a handful of dyno runs with a C8. Car OBD ECU Conversion Kit Small Engine Ecu Kit for Sale China Supplier. Hennessey was the first to slap a twin-turbo kit on a C8, and now, Extreme Turbo Systems of Washington State has one of their own-and from what we can tell, it's the most powerful out there so far. As more and more tuners begin to get their hands on C8 Corvettes, we're beginning to see just how far the car can be pushed by forced induction.