G'day,
I have been researching & admiring this forum for a while now, but am now in a position where I need help. I am in the process of tuning a stroker engine that we fired up last week. A license was purchased for this job. Got the ball rolling by programing the 0411 LS1B PCM using EFILive V8 Scan & Tune. I used a modified to suit this engine Custom Operating System version 03 .cxt tune file 0129003 (have used this tune as a starter tune for a number of engines). This of course required a Full-Flash and went in without a hitch as always. I have since then loaded into this vehicle/PCM a number of calibration only updates Cal-Flash all completed without a problem. To this point all is well, we are making progress. Today we attempted to load Custom Operating System V05. I haven't used Custom OS V05 before, but with the additional TPS VE table it was considered worth a try. We selected Custom OS 0129005, as provided by EFILive - sans calibration, and loaded this into our PCM. Having successfully Full-Flashed 0129005 OS we then attempted to add the calibration. This is where the problems started. We used the original 0129003 Custom OS file to Cal-Flash our PCM but this threw a code $0534 Invalid Serial Number. I tried this a number of times with no success, always getting a $0534 code. I then tried to Full-Flash 0129005 again, thinking something must have gone amiss the first time. No joy. Same error. I then used EFILive Tune V7.5 to Full-Flash 0129005, the rationale being that all the Custom Operating Systems originated in EFILive V7.5 as .tun files. This actually worked, up to a point. Whilst we managed to load Custom Operating System 0129005 successfully it still won't allow a Cal-Flash because it now wants another VIN license! I don't have to buy another license do I? Where to from here?
Peter