Lately, I've turned my Electronics Engineering knowledge over to purpose of evil. I am unsatisfied with the way DiabloSport has a stranglehold over the Predator and it's abilities, and I'm doing something about it.

Technically, the Predator is a unremarkable piece of antiquated hardware. It's really just a OBD-II scan tool with a firmware EEPROM, a slightly more powerful processor and a chunk of storage NVRAM. I could build a clone for about $ 55 dollars in parts sourced from Newark. Then again, does it really need to be all that sophisticated? Nope. The computer in our trucks aren't really mini-Cray's, either.

What I can tell you so far from my probing is:

* The NVRAM capacity of the predator is 10,144,000 bits or 1.268 Megabytes. NVRAM is where the "tunes" are stored.
that equates to 6 tunes, however I believe 256K is reserved for tune modifications and or the stock program, therefore about 4 tunes in memory should be possible.

* The EEPROM (for firmware) is a 4MBIT EEPROM, (512K) and about 384K of it is used.

The first thing I am going do to is eliminate the annoying messages that pop up during the ECU programing process. I need to first run a binary character conversion on it to get the correct character codes, as it isn't using ASCII. I don't believe the code has encryption, but if it does, it's not going to be too difficult to break.

 

You go ahead....and then give us a "how to"

 

i put mine in the microwave.

 

with my flux capacitor.

 

If you can decipher the binary hex and give us access, I'd be more than willing to send some dollars your way!

 

I'd be very careful about marketing anything you toy with on your own. The rediculous DMCA act has some very sctrct (and just as ludicrous) anti-reverse-engineering laws in it.

Tim, our friendly lawyer, may be able to shed more light on it.

--Daniel