EFILive is pleased to announce that this week we will be releasing a new public beta with some major software updates and industry firsts.
It sure has been a big couple of months for EFILive releases, first with the flawless release of 2007 - 2011 E37 ECM tuning back in June with many EFILive customers reporting fantastic gains tuning those vehicles. And then more recently in August we had the much anticipated public release of Autocal - things are really happening at a frantic pace.
This update marks the start of the transition away from our existing V7 PC software to our new V8 PC software. Included is the first stage of our new PC based V8 software becoming fully functional.
The V8 software is so much more efficient than V7 when dealing with CAN based controllers and we would encourage all users to experience these exciting changes by using V8 for reading and writing to all existing supported controllers.
Internal testing has shown massive speed gains in read times of the controllers using the new V8 PC based pass through software, below is a few examples:
All 2Mb ECM's (E37,E38 & E67) are at or just under the 2min read time, V7 is just on 4 minutes to read one of those ECM's, that's over 50% faster for V8.
Some other times are:
The E39 & E78 (3Mb) are around 2:20.
The E40 (1Mb) is around 50 seconds.
The T42 (1Mb) is around 35 seconds.
The T43 (2Mb) is around 1:40.
As well as average read times being 50% faster for CAN controllers, the V8 read front end also has automatic ECM/TCM type detection with the ability for the user to override the automatic selection should the auto detection fail for some reason. Just press the read button and the rest is automatic.
Part of this update also includes full programming and scanning support for at least two new GM ECM's (we would like to sneak in a 3rd - time permitting of course), these newly supported
The E39 is currently in use on the 2010+ LF1 (3.0L SIDI) & LAF (2.4L SIDI) engines and who knows, maybe the upcoming LF3 Twin Turbo V6. No doubt many more models will be added over the coming years as GM start to use SIDI technology on more engines (GenV V8, Buick Turbo 4?) and the shift away from the existing Bosch SIDI ECM's.
The E39 ECM can be found on the following 2010 & 2011 model vehicles with the engines mentioned above.
Buick LaCrosse
Buick Regal
Cadillac SRX
Cadillac CTS
Chevrolet Equinox
GMC Terrain
Holden Commodore
The second new ECM that this update will support is the all new 2011 E78 ECM. This ECM appears to be the replacement for the E38 & E67 ECM's that were released in 2006. Currently the E78 is available at dealerships in the 2011 Silverado/Sierra 2500 with the L96 (6.0L). However within weeks we are expecting it will also be released in the following 2011 vehicles as the new models roll out.
Chevrolet Cruze
Cadillac Escalade
Chevrolet Avalanche/Suburban/Tahoe
GMC Yukon/Denali
We can assure our customers that as these vehicles are released, software updates will be made quickly and efficiently to support these new vehicles as required. We can typically add new OS's to our software and dispatch the updates to every one of our customers within a 72 hr period, sometimes overnight! So don't be afraid to take bookings to tune these new models now! At the time of writing EFILive will be the first company on the market to provide it's customers E39 ECM tuning & E78 ECM tuning giving our customers the most comprehensive GM 2010/2011 model support on the market, now is your chance to capture a whole range of new customers to your workshop.
Internally the E39 and E78 ECM's are a major upgrade from GM's existing ECM's with a powerful 132MHz PowerPC CPU (MPC5566) and 3Mb of flash, they pack a real performance punch in the electronics department. You will find many of the tables quite similar to the E38 & E67 but there is of course many more functions built in to this new generation ECM's, we are still uncovering new tables every day.
The third new ECM we also plan to partially incorporate in to this release is the 2011 LML Duramax E86 ECM. This will be ECM read only, but it will allow us to build a nice library of different factory tunes for them. This ECM is a 100% new design from Bosch with very little in common with the outgoing LMM E35 ECM, so some long days are ahead for us!
Even though the new V8 software is coming along nicely we haven't forgotten about V7. EFILive has now incorporated a new safety feature for users programming E38 & E67 ECM's. It's well known in the tuning industry that GM have made some changes over the years (particularly 2009 & 2010 models) to the internal structure of these two ECM's making the various model year ECM OS's incompatible, even when using GM's SPS for programming.
If you happen to do a full OS flash between incompatible years using either EFILive or GM's SPS it will result in a corrupted (and accidentally locked) ECM which may not be recoverable.
EFILive V7 will now automatically warn you and restrict the flashing of incompatible ECM operating systems, you maybe be tempted to bypass this using GM's SPS but don't, if EFILive stops the full flash going ahead it's just saved you a bricked ECM. Refer to this document for further details on the problem.
Please keep an eye out for this release in our Software Updates section this week.
Cheers,
Ross