[Groovy Chick]

Okay, so I'm not one for being able to keep secrets, but since we'll be out of town for ten days, it'll be easy for me this time...

If you have a custom tuned diesel chip -- from ANY vendor! -- we will be offering a new service that will be of interest to you. The best part? For most of you, the cost will only be about $50.

We'll be posting about it as soon as we get back from SEMA. <----It's the closest I could get to Vegas Show Girls

[88Racing]

Originally Posted by Groovy Chick

Okay, so I'm not one for being able to keep secrets, but since we'll be out of town for ten days, it'll be easy for me this time...

If you have a custom tuned diesel chip -- from ANY vendor! -- we will be offering a new service that will be of interest to you. The best part? For most of you, the cost will only be about $50.

We'll be posting about it as soon as we get back from SEMA. <----It's the closest I could get to Vegas Show Girls

What?
Vegas smilie girls!
You truely are the queen of smilies!

Lars

[Groovy Chick]

Ah, I love being called The Queen of Smilies.


The trouble with those darn cats is that we just can't keep them in the bag! (We have four -- we speak from experience...)

Someone on another forum came very close to guessing what we're going to be offering, so we've decided to come clean...

Since the cat is out of the proverbial bag, I'll explain a bit. When customers buy a turbo, they get a compressor map. When customers buy a cam, they get the grind specifications. This would really be no different (and yes, if that sounds familiar, Bill just reiterated to me what he's posted on various forums before; I take no credit for it).

First, let me state firmly that we won't be infringing on any copyrights; however, there's much that can be provided to customers that doesn't cross that line and would be important for them to know. What we will be offering is a 3D representation of Start of Injection, Injection Control Pressure, and Injector Pulse Width. Just so there's no confusion, we will not be providing customers with actual copies of any maps as they appear within the calibration; what we are providing is a graphical representation of the PCM's final calculations of these parameters under operational conditions. Also, so there is no concern, it is not possible to derive any of the IP used in building tunes by mere observation or utilization of the data contained in these graphs, so no third party will be able to view any vendor's actual tuning maps.

We're not giving away the Colonel's Secret Recipe or sharing what makes each tuner unique. I'm sure that each tuning customer would like to know if certain parameters fall within "the safe zone" or if they need to address these issues with their tuner; there's absolutely no reason that they shouldn't be privy to that information.

Let's be clear on something. We are not doing this with the hope that customers will see something frightening and come running to us to do their tuning. What we anticipate is that, armed with additional information, 7.3L owners will be able to ensure that their calibrations are safe by bringing these issues to the attention of their tuners so that the problems can be corrected.

In the near future, we will be offering this to our customers at no charge -- it will simply come with the Phoenix, FU, or FU2. (BTW, if you are already a customer of ours and would like this information, let us know; it won't happen immediately because we're simply swamped, but we'll be happy to provide it to you!) It is our hope that other vendors will step up and offer it -- or something similar -- to their customers as well, but it's not our place to tell anyone what to do. If they choose to, then great! We're not the Tuning Police. If they don't want to, then that's their choice. FWIW, if a tuner is writing safe calibrations, they should have no qualms about their customers receiving this information.

For the past two years, we've been trying to break up the Secret Squirrel Decoder Ring Club surrounding Ford tuning. Customers have a right to know what's going on in their engines. They don't need to know HOW it's happening (those are the tricks of the trade!), but they are entitled to know WHAT is happening and that the truck they're driving is safe.

That's what we've been saying all along.

As soon as Bill has a free minute, we'll get some pictures posted.

[88Racing]

Any chances of breaking the squirl secret decoder ring for us gassers?
Some pretty 3d pictures for us?

Lars

[Groovy Chick]

I just checked with The Mad Doctor, himself, and his reply was, "Eventually, yes."

If we could just close down for a couple of months, Bill could get SO MUCH EXTRA STUFF ACCOMPLISHED. He worked 41 straight hours earlier this week. I can't ask much more from him. Okay, so I DO... I just shouldn't.

[cleatus12r]

What's the likelihood of those of us with Minotaur getting the "decoder" program application? It would be worth some money to some of us!

[soutthpaw]

Originally Posted by cleatus12r

What's the likelihood of those of us with Minotaur getting the "decoder" program application? It would be worth some money to some of us!

My sentiments exactly I would love to be able to run the tunes i make thru this application and see what the real values are and have it spot potential red flag issues....

[88Racing]

I was wondering when you 2 were going to chime in and start to drool over this!
LOL's
Lars

[cleatus12r]

That better?

[Groovy Chick]

You guys are so funny. Truly -- no sarcasm intended at all. You make me .

Right now, it's kind of like our FICM reprogramming software, which people have been waiting for all year. It's not written for use by a third party yet... meaning that whatever appears on the screen makes sense to Billy, but everyone else would scratch their heads. It's not user friendly.

It's "one of those projects" on his "to do" list. The hard part is that there are so many things that only he can do -- we can't hire someone to take care of his workload to free him up to do other things, or we would! It's like phone calls... I field tons of them, but as I tell him all the time: There's just some people that want to speak with him. Not me. Not someone else even if they knew all about diesels. People want to speak with The Mad Doctor himself!

I'm sure he'd love to get the software user friendly. Can you imagine how profitable that would be? Heck, even if we just sold it to other tuners, we'd be able to take some time off.

We think it would be a great addition to Minotaur; it's just can't happen anytime soon. :sadface: