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    As the title implies :
    1. How did Paul and Ross come to start EFILive ?
    2. Did they work for someone else then spin off to EFILive ?
    3. Who was the first to do PCM scanning and tuning software ?

    Just something I have wanted to know .

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    You might need to narrow down #3 some. Are you referring to GM ECM/PCM modules only?
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    For number 3 , not exactly , because someone had to do the first whether it was GM , Ford , Chrysler to get us to where we are today .
    Maybe through the OBD port would be better , because flashing PCM chips was before the port flashing .
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    Quote Originally Posted by tunedbyGM View Post
    As the title implies :
    1. How did Paul and Ross come to start EFILive ?
    2. Did they work for someone else then spin off to EFILive ?
    3. Who was the first to do PCM scanning and tuning software ?

    Just something I have wanted to know .

    Gil
    1 - It started back with the program Car Bytes, Paul wrote that for he's 1996 Holden (ALDL) as there was no scantool for that car. Myself and Paul met on a old school Email list back then called DIY_EFI, probably around 1998 or 1999, I don't recall. That was a great forum, I remember all the guys from all the other tuning companies were on there as well (Edit, HPT, TC).
    At that stage he lived about 15mins from me. One day we decided to try to make a tuning program for LS1's, probably sometime in 02/03, he then decided to move to New Zealand . At that stage EFILive was an after hours task, not our full time jobs.

    2 - We weren't in the tuning business before this, we were hobbyists too.

    3 - Scanning not sure, but for the LS1, LS1Edit was the first PC based tuner, hats off to them, no matter what people say about it, it opened up the LS1 aftermarket world like no other product did.

    We both come from the era when 'tuning a chip' meant using a hex editor, no fancy 3D graphs back then, compared to what people used to use back in the 90's, EFILive has certainly made the modern tuners job a lot easier.

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    Quote Originally Posted by GMPX
    At that stage EFILive was an after hours task, not our full time jobs.
    Lucky that changed huh and you don't need to work after hours anymore
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    Of course not, these days it's 2 - 3 hours tops, then it's back to sunning around the pool in a robe Hugh Hefner style
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    Quote Originally Posted by GMPX View Post
    Of course not, these days it's 2 - 3 hours tops, then it's back to sunning around the pool in a robe Hugh Hefner style
    So if you worked 8-10 like the rest of us you might be able to afford the girls? Maybe one or two of them? :snicker:

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    Quote Originally Posted by GMPX View Post
    Of course not, these days it's 2 - 3 hours tops, then it's back to sunning around the pool in a robe Hugh Hefner style

    No wonder it's taking so long for Bosh controller support to come out.
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    Quote Originally Posted by mr.prick View Post
    No wonder it's taking so long for Bosh controller support to come out.
    There is a new DI ECM on the block for 2010 that happens to come from the US of A, so the Bosch ECM might become a horrible distant memory.

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