Equipment and Software for Electronic Tuning of Cars
Chip-tuning is a tuning technique that allows gaining significant engine power increase without direct physical modification of the car. This effect is achieved by adjusting default engine operation modes, stored at the central electronic unit (ECU) of the car.
Professional hardware and licensed software for vehicle chip-tuning is available at ECUTools internet store, which can be found athttps://ecutools.eu/chip-tuning/.
Car Engine Tuning Devices
The following solutions are most widely used nowadays to adjust car engine operation modes:
Tuning boxes – these devices are plugged to the internal network of the car between sensors and ECU. Tuning boxes intercept data from sensors and instead send specific values to ECU, so ECU issues commands that ensure higher engine power. These solutions do not modify ECU memory content and thus leave no trace of their usage, but they give only limited tuning range and do not provide maximal possible engine power.
Adapters – these devices are necessary to establish connection between a PC and ECU of the car.
Editors – these tools are used to process ECU memory files, obtained using adapter.
Flashers – these solutions provide reading and writing ECU memory and can be shipped as separate software meant to be used with compatible adapter, sets that consist of advanced adapter and flasher software or complex hardware modules with pre-installed software, which can be plugged to the car and controlled remotely.
Popular ECU Tuning Tools for Sale at ECUTools Online Store
The following popular adapters are available at ECUTools shop:
Openport 2.0 – universal CAN-to-USB/K-Line-to-USB adapter with a price of 189$.
UCDS – specialized adapter for Ford cars (Focus, Mondeo, Kuga Galaxy, Transit, Fiesta, etc), which costs 122$.
Scanmatik 2 PRO – famous universal adapter from Avtotekhnologii brand with USB and Bluetooth interfaces, compatible with different CAN-bus and K-line protocols. This handy tool has a cost of 370$.
Mongoose Pro series of adapters, designed specially for use with different car brands. Separate models are available for BMW, VW, Toyota, Nissan, GM, JLR and Ford cars. These adapters cost around 500$.
The list of popular flashers, which can be ordered at ECUTools store, includes such solutions as:
Autotuner Tool Slave and Master editions, which can be bought for 3 411$ and 5 764$ respectively.
Alientech Kess V2 Slave and Master editions, available for 1 059$ and 1 764$.
Alientech K-Tag Slave and Master editions that cost 588$ and 1 176$.
Flex Slave and Master models (each costs 1 176$).
CMD Flash, which can be provided in Master Full (8 824$), Slave Full (4 467$) and Slave Full Unrestricted (5 556$) editions.
Opel Scanner Flasher for J2534 protocol adapters (software only), which costs 50$.
