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Old Apr 24, 2013 | 09:01 AM
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i got to thinking last night about having to ship my truck across country next year. now my 02 excursion has a 6 position chip and its shift on the fly. one of the positions is a valet mode that doesnt allow my truck to exceed 25mph. i have heard horror stories of car shippers damaging vehicles and beating on them and was wondering if its remotely possible to add a valet function to a 2000 silverado pcm.
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Old Apr 24, 2013 | 10:26 AM
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If you have a copy of HPtuners you could just tune it to have a speed limiter at 25mph and then reflash the tune when you get it back.
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Old Apr 24, 2013 | 07:57 PM
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yeah i honestly cant afford hp tuners any time soon. i was just wondering mainly if you could have a switch like my sexcursion. oh well maybe ill buy a second pcm and have a 25mph speed limiter installed before i hand it over to the hauler and switch them out when i get it back.
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Set speed to 20 and rev limiter to 1200
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Old Apr 24, 2013 | 10:39 PM
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Originally Posted by 01WS6/tamu
Set speed to 20 and rev limiter to 1200
x2 with this so there wont be any revving what so ever
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Old Apr 25, 2013 | 06:52 AM
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ill pick up a 2nd PCM this weekend and talk to wheatley and see if he can hook me up.
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I have been wondering this myself, more so for when my wife drives my truck.

I know it sounds crazy, but I have wondered about running 2 computers on a power switch. Shut the truck off, flip a hidden switch, and be on a limited tune or a hot tune.
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Old Apr 25, 2013 | 04:28 PM
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Originally Posted by cttandy
I have been wondering this myself, more so for when my wife drives my truck.

I know it sounds crazy, but I have wondered about running 2 computers on a power switch. Shut the truck off, flip a hidden switch, and be on a limited tune or a hot tune.

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That's cool, but I don't see anything about it on their website. I wanted to see pricing for it, but nothing is there.
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Originally Posted by greasemykey
ill pick up a 2nd PCM this weekend and talk to wheatley and see if he can hook me up.
You can have a custom OS flashed into your current PCM and valet mode triggered by grounding one of the PCM pins. If Wheatley uses EFI Live, he can do it and all you need to do is install a switch and tap a wire into your PCM. The valet mode would enable additional parameters for speed and rpm.
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