Hack Your Car

gurps_npc writes "The New York Times has this story about hacking your car's chip. You can get significant horse power and torque boosts (+18 horsepower and +70 foot pounds of torque in the given example), as well as improve (or decrease) fuel efficency. The car companies do not like (surprise surprise) people personalizing their vehicle's programming and warn of burning out your engine with bad code, and voiding your warranty."

Comments

Where the Fucking warranty on Gas Mileage!

[rodgster]

Sorry, I have to call Bullshit.... RE:

Cars are tuned for fuel efficiency.

My truck doesn't get ANYWHERE near the stciker based mileage. My actual highway/city driving over 2000 miles is less than the sticker based city ONLY mileage by 2 miles per gallon. And I drive Normal. No tickets, no accidents, drive at most 10 over the limit and I don't "run it hard". My truck is a V6 with a manual transmission BTW.

My buddy's Caddilac Escalade with a V8 gets better mileage.

Sorry but the whole mileage thing is Bullshit Period.

Oh and by the way. FUCK YOU DODGE (aka Daimler Chrysler)!

Rodger