clwill
Nitro Member
I just don't understand what "fool an ECU" means. You and I have identical boxes, if you figure out a way to make your car faster with that box, then you deserve to win.
The boxes are spec boxes that are serial numbered and designed to limit what you can change. The sanctioning body has many spares, and has the complete right to walk up to you within minutes before a run and swap out your box for a new one and to confiscate and examine your box at any time. The boxes have fully encrypted and secured safety checks to insure that the software has not been fiddled with. The only things I can change are the various engine parameters, which you can download onto the box in seconds. And the sanctioning body can download the contents of your box to check it against spec within seconds after a run.
This is how it works in F1 and in NASCAR, the boxes from McLaren do this today. And if you don't think those guys, especially F1, are dependent on thousandths of a second for things to happen, you need to take another look.
The boxes are spec boxes that are serial numbered and designed to limit what you can change. The sanctioning body has many spares, and has the complete right to walk up to you within minutes before a run and swap out your box for a new one and to confiscate and examine your box at any time. The boxes have fully encrypted and secured safety checks to insure that the software has not been fiddled with. The only things I can change are the various engine parameters, which you can download onto the box in seconds. And the sanctioning body can download the contents of your box to check it against spec within seconds after a run.
This is how it works in F1 and in NASCAR, the boxes from McLaren do this today. And if you don't think those guys, especially F1, are dependent on thousandths of a second for things to happen, you need to take another look.