About VersaTuner Tuning Software

[Steve VersaTune]

Make sure your MAF calibration is right. You can find the procedure here.


What mods do you have and what is your tuning goal?

[luke 3mps]

From an ECU standpoint, the Gen II is a totally different beast from the ground up. We are making good progress on it, but we don't have an exact release date set yet.

Gen 2 loving yet?

[Steve VersaTune]

Not yet. We're still working on it full throttle.

[LittleredMPS]

How are you guys progressing Steve?

Any updates on releases or software advances?

[Steve VersaTune]

No news yet. We're making progress though.

[mpsdaniel]

I was looking at the website and it says you need a J2534 PassThru device to use Versatuner. The product recommended, however, is worth around $160. But it seems this product has some ecu reflashing capabilities built in... Don't you just need a cable to use versatuner? Why would I spend all this money on something to do precisely what I want Versatuner to do?

[Steve VersaTune]

Any J2534 compliant vehicle interface has a certain amount of intelligence to it. It manages the CAN bus communications between a PC and the ECU. It is more than just a set of wires and connectors. It has a microcontroller running embedded firmware, but it can not reflash an ECU by itself. VersaTuner does more than just reflash the ECU. It allows you to access an online tune database, edit tunes, flash tunes, read, clear, and mask DTCs, datalog, graph recorded logs, etc.

[Scaredycrow]

Consider the pass-through device the tool which versatuner uses to change the ECU code.

Versatuner is software that runs on a laptop. A laptop without the pass through device has no means of accessing and modifying your car's ECU.

To draw an analogy; A spanner is the means of tightening a nut, but without the intelligence of *how* to tighten a nut, that the person using the spanner provides, the spanner is just a lump of iron.

[mpsdaniel]

ok that makes sense, cheers guys =]