As you probably already know, the 6.2-liter supercharged LT5 V8 engine found in the 2019 Corvette ZR1 ships with an encrypted ECU, locking tuning companies out of the vehicle’s software. Experts were finally able to crack the vehicle’s super secure ECU (almost a year after its debut..) and allow companies like Hennessey to truly set to work on the 755 horsepower engine, but they may face similar roadblocks tuning General Motors products in the future.
GM president Mark Reuss said the mid engine Corvette C8 will feature the automaker’s new ‘Global B’ digital architecture. This advanced new electrical system, detailed by GM earlier this year, will allow the automaker’s future products to talk and communicate with each other. It will also enable the various systems on GM’s upcoming electric and autonomous vehicles, so it must be secure and safe against cyberattacks. That means the ECU will be encrypted like the 2019 Corvette ZR1’s, except with an even harder-to-crack code.
“(the mid engine Corvette C8 ECU) is very, very well done in terms of being able to connect,” Reuss was quoted as saying. “But also to have the capacity and capability for things like Super Cruise, AV and EV. That pipeline that is created with Global B and cybersecurity to be part of that is very, very robust.”
Does that mean tuners will have absolutely no access to the Corvette C8’s ECU? Reuss seems to think not, although it doesn’t sound like GM wants just anyone to have the keys to controls.
“I don’t wanna cut anybody out from an aftermarket standpoint, but we have to pick and choose who are the good guys,” Reuss said.
The 2020 mid engine Corvette C8 is slated to make its debut on July 18th, 2019. Stay tuned for all the official details.
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Tuners like Hennessey need to think out of the box and not rely on their own programmers.. they need to consider outsourcing the hacking needed or offer a Cadillac CTS-V with a HPE-1000 1000 hp supercharged 6.2L V8 because nerds really dig fast cars.
It was HPTuners who “cracked” the ZR1 ECM, who allowed Hennessy to tune the car.
https://www.hptuners.com/product/zr1-modified-ecm-or-ecm-exchange-service/
Let’s give CREDIT WHERE CREDIT IS DUE gma!
That means anyone that wants to tune their performance car that was created after 2020 model can’t tune it anymore. Thats just sad. Looks like GM really wants the tuner companies to close up. I get the cyberhacking part, but at least have a place for the people that want to tune their cars.
I can understand the security measures, but let the aftermarket do it’s thing. If you totally lock it out, you’re telling owners, “thank you for spending $75,000+ for the new ME Corvette, but don’t even think about tuning it. Use our factory stuff that bean counters made us use.”
You all above are living in a dying world. The days of hot rodding are over. The new C8 will be a rare car as the world heats up rapidly, we will have to abandon ICE performance.
Get a clue people… bottom line… we are in big F—ING trouble.
We don’t have years to fix our planetary environment, we have to make huge moves now. If we wait any longer we might as well pull the trigger of the gun we already have at our head.
You must be fun at partys ):
Ok Dumbskulls,
Take your typical desk model 12″ globe of the world. Tear off 37.68 inches of clear plastic wrap. Wrap it around the globe. That clear plastic represents the actual thickness of the ‘Viable’ atmosphere of our planet scaled to the 12″ globe.
An atmosphere we are dumping our pollution into in ever growing amounts.
What TreDuece doesn’t tell you is that IF the current 7.7B humans on the planet are the cause of climate change then half of them (roughly 4B) need to die or leave the planet in order for the climate to reverse itself.
The die off has already begun and will accelerate.
Almost everybody, even those who understand that the world is warming rapidly and that that is a very serious problem, don’t realize how fast it is coming, or how devastatingly bad it will be.
It will change everything in a few short years.
There is a reason climate scientists are profoundly scared and frustrated with the inaction of our politicians and a public ignoring their part in the situation and not marching in mass to the steps of Congress to demand immediate action.
I’m a long time hot rodder. Built my first roadster back in the early sixties and have had multiple hot cars & bikes since. But I understood something my dad inculcated in me back in the mid-fifties. That we have to move away from polluting industries and ICE motivated vehicles or we would be in serious planetary crisis. He was right then, and still right today.
You have been fed a pack of lies. The global warming crisis is just another psy-op to allow for government control and consolidation towards a one-world-government new world order. Bill Gates and his global population control initiatives will probably selectively sterilize billions of people by some genetic lottery. The elites always see humanity itself as the enemy. (Btw, by dad is a chief engineer at NASA and he says it’s a well known fact that the global climate models have been massaged to give the most catastrophic projections which in turn give the politicians the most leverage for control/power).
Hot Hodders will figure it out. If not, that 100k plus will he spent on real hot rods and resto-mods
As previously mentioned, HPTuners has already cracked the ZR1 and will most likely do so again for the C8. People also forget that Holley, FAST, etc. have ECU’s that can be tuned and so much more if GM manages to lock out everyone. Still no excuse for GM’s lockout though…
The last thing we should be worried about is being locked out the ECU. What all of us hooligans should be concerned with is the real time data being shared and stored even when the engine is off and the vehicle is parked in our garage.
Acceleration – Speed -Time – Date – Location, and G-forces could be costly or incriminating. Not too mention private verbal recordings of our conversations and live video with our smart ‘phone – vehicle’ interface.
Big Brother and the insurance companies are watching… You.
I have already sent the agents in the black Suburban to go and collect you for giving away all our secrets.
Resistance is futile!
You will be re-educated and re entered into society in a small island nation of our choosing and will go by the name Reba.
Note I am only Little Brother. Imagine Big Brother had caught wind?
Resistance… is Necessary
Re-education … Will be Futile
Small island… Cool! I have boat building skills and will need them as the ocean rises due to polar ice cap melt.
Big Brother has know about me since the WWW went live.
Thanks for the AM laugh, Scott3
Thanks Reba!
I see that three, so far, carbon units of limited intellectual capacity have voted their ignorance.
The scary part is that they
only represent the tip of an iceberg soon to be grounded on the shores of reality.