Well I'm trying to figure out how I can get my ECU (08 flashed with the TRD Flash

Can I just go to the dealer?

 

for the newer ones, yeah, it is just reflashed through the techsteam laptop.

so yeah, the dealership can just do it if you want...but i don't know if they will...or what they'll charge. probably at least 1 hour labor.

 

i will shoot myself if its anything over 150

 

You just get a charger? and want the flash? keep in mind that the dealer cant flash it back so you either dont get rid of the s/c or you get tuned w/ an emanage or AEM

 

no no i have a turbo but right now im tuning with safc......and well SAFC doesnt tune timing...


i need to retard timing to be on the safe side

so....

im going to get trd flash and tune my afr accordingly, this way i dont have to shell out money on a fic and on a pro tune to pull timing cuz afr i can tune EASY

 

Help a noob out, is the TRD Flash another tune?

 

The TRD Reflash is the tune they give u when u get the supercharger.....its in no way a tune for a Turbo.....im getting it just because i wanna tune off of it..

as in im tuning my car myself using the Reflash as a base

 

Ship me yours and ill overnight my flashed one back to you

 

^remember - you have to take your car to toyota to get the car to swap after changing the ecu. There is some kind of trick i remember from years ago but dont remember what it was ....there was a work-a-round somehow

 

sorry no can do i drive this car every day and i doubt urs is a 07-09 ecu

 

but if u do have an 07-09 lol ill give u a 90 dollar diposit through paypal...u ship ur ecu and when u get it i ship u my ecu and i get 90 back when u recieve the ecu

 

just dont swap it till you are at the dealer - ha - or have AAA or something to tow ya

 

you can swap out ecu's just gotta do the paper clip thing so you program your key to that ecu. and make sure its the same year ecu with same tranny.

 

can the trd tune be tuned. heard that the reflash dose not take to piggybacks verry well that its easyer to tune a stock ecu?

 

correct.. the trd tune takes massive amounts of timing. and even if you try to add timing it will keep taking more timing. trd tune it smarter then the stock tune.

 

ha my ecu is smarter than yours jk.lol

 

so for a s/c you can get something like this rather than the trd tune?

http://www.erzperformance.com/product_p/30-1960.htm

this is considered a piggy ecu am i correct, b/c i went to the dealer and they refuse to tune it they say they dont do it anymore

 

^ yea if you dont go w/ the trd tune you get that AEM, an emanage ultimate, or emanage blue. And yea, you take that to shop with a dyno. What part of NJ are you from?

 

why not just get a piggy back already! You keep wasting money cburg. No offense bro, but don't try and put a band-aide on the problem. Save some money and get a reputable piggy back. Don't cheap out on your car when it comes to the tune, you never know what might happen.

 

i know what your saying but you guys really dont know what im doing and how i do things...my car is running perfect right now and i tunned it myself...

i understand going with a piggyback is more benificial and ill will do that just as soon as i get my safc and injectors sold