ajpturbo said:
I was unaware that the mycal didn't back up the stock tune. That's actually quite scary as there is a difference between the exact calibration that was loaded to the car originally and a stock equivalent mass produced stategy. And in the unlikely and very rare event that an ECU needs recovering it can be done after hours and late weekends by other companies which is rare to find.
Your line of thinking isn't innovative. If you would like to know why other tuning companies back up the stock calibration you should ask them, although they wouldn't be interested in telling you anyway, but until then you should just accept that it's just different practice in business and is silly to try and point it out as a negative thing.
Unfortunately, your post shows you don't actually know how Ford coding and tuning works at it's base foundation. We will definitely attempt to clear up why we do what we do and why it is an advantage over "saving" the stock calibration.
Part of our process is that we have the customer send us both the strategy and the software part ID codes which identify exactly which files are currently in the vehicle. Our tuner has enough logic that it will not load to the vehicle if the tune is not an identical match to what it sees in the vehicle and also if all tunes present do not match the OEM base file we load on the device. Our tune is then an identical duplicate of what the customer has in the car for a base file, no doubt about that. This also give us the power to forward date the customer to a newer strategy code if he does not have the current one, granting them access to all of the OEM improvements as well as our custom tuning.
And to shed light on another situation here, yes we have seen customers with other brands of tuning devices that were unrecoverable (this happens much more often than you are alluding to). A customer of ours about 2-3 weeks ago bought a mycal and wanted to ditch his older, different brand device to make the step up to our stage 4 plus X tune like Rich is running. His device locked up on him loading back to stock and failed. The car was towed to the dealer and they told him he needed a new processor. I got him in touch with the tech support at the company who manufactured his other brand device and had him send his processor to them. They also told him the processor was unrecoverable, necessitating that the processor be replaced. So yes we have dealt with multiple customers that had other brands of tuning devices with failed processors that had to be replaced. We have had a zero percent failure rate using the mycal devices which is hard to do in this industry, but obviously possible. There has even been times where other brands of devices have locked up the ECM, but not failed it entirely, and our MyCalibrator device was used to recover it.
Now, getting to the base fundamentals of Ford tuning. If a car in New mexico has the same strategy and software ID code as a car in Utah, then why waste the time saving the same base tune over and over and over again? instead, our device has the OEM file stored on it, and flashed the exact way you would do a flash at a dealer level. So saying that by us not saving the stock file is "bad" couldn't be more incorrect. we preload that same exact, or sometimes newer file directly to the device so streamline the process. I mean, who wants to wait for the tuner to download something that it already can be pre-loaded with?
This also has the unique advantage in that it gives you a true stock file. Maybe you bought a car that is used and already was tuned. Well, other devices read out the file and make changes to it to dump it back in, so sometimes changes from previously used devices can be "stacked" where our device prevents that possibly catastrophic situation.
