WAYNE CHIRNSIDE wrote in a message to TOM WALKER:

-> Age prevents me form doing so but also the Complexity of the car has
-> increased 100 fold since my High point in Automobile Repair Knowledge.
-> Kinda like Computers. The Technology has past me by.
-> I have been through several mechenics in recent years and have yet to
-> find one I really Trust.
-> Meanwhile my CAr Repair cost column in my budget has increased
-> dramaticly. In the past three years I have paid more to maintain my Cars
-> then in the Previously 20 years.

 WC> Just read an article on the web about a new breed of young 
 WC> technogeek.

 WC> Seems some individuals have gotten into reprogramming the black
 WC> boxes in their cars to maximize performance beyond anything they
 WC> came of the assembly line with.

 WC> With our youth well behind of us neither of us would be up
 WC> to the task thses days.

 WC> Were we younger I imagine we'd both be doing a bit of such
 WC> tweaking. 

Not exactly new,  that one.  Some time ago,  maybe as long as 10-12 years
ago, I stumbled across a mailing list which discussed doing exactly that. 
It was called something like DIY-EFI,  if I remember right.

The biggest stumbling block that I can remember is that they kept on
talking about some "SAE White Papers" which weren't readily
available for download, and it took some really nontrivial amount of money
to get past that.  Oh well.

But yeah,  people will hack anything,  given the chance,  and there's
nothing much new about that.  Yet such stuff continues to surprise the
folks that write articles like that,  for some reason.

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