Can a 'bricked'flash ECU still be used with kalmaker?

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Can a 'bricked'flash ECU still be used with kalmaker?

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Quick question,

Can a 'bricked' flash ECU still by used if you put Kalmaker on it?

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Re: Can a 'bricked'flash ECU still be used with kalmaker?

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Is that a physical thing - does it physically replace the flash chip on the circuit board? If it does, probably yes. If no, then no.
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Re: Can a 'bricked'flash ECU still be used with kalmaker?

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I don't believe that with flash pcm there are any hardware mods for kalmaker
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Re: Can a 'bricked'flash ECU still be used with kalmaker?

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Then you would need a way to flash to the chip not via ALDL to get kalmaker on to it, and that would be the same process as putting factory code back on it, and replacing the code on the flash chip with factory or kalmaker would both unbrick it.
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Re: Can a 'bricked'flash ECU still be used with kalmaker?

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Kalmaker can run flash no worries. For mafless you may want to swap to a VT-VY L67 memcal pcm
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