Yes this means you can finally tune while the car is running. With the Moates Quarterhorse the tuning parameters, such as MAF (Mass Air Flow sensor) curve can be changed on the fly. The accuracy of the quarter mile times will depend on the accuracy of the vehicle speedometer and how fast the logging rate is. Binary editor can estimate quarter mile times based off the vehicle speed sensor. For the OBD2 devices they can display or log parameters form the definition files and the standard SAE mode 1 parameters or the Ford Enhanced parameters. All parameters available for display and or data logging are defined in the definition files. The Binary Editor can also display differences between binaries (Ford Tunes).īinary Editor can display and log live data using either the TwEECer RT, Moates Quarterhorse 1.6 hardware or a compliant J2534 OBD2 pass thru device such as the Drew Tech Mongoose cable. There is also a definition template that can be downloaded for those that would like create there own definition file.

You can look at the download page on this web site to see what definitions or strategies are supported.

This makes editing the definitions file very user friendly The definition files that are NOT open source are either in an encrypted database format or an encrypted Excel format. Its Open Source definition files (Strategy Files) are saved in Excel.

vimrc file to allow some related commands.Ī very similar editor is bvi.The Binary Editor software allows for editing of the Ford EEC binary data. More info can be found at the official wiki by clicking here.Ĭlick here for more info on editing your. Vim takes some getting used to but is really great once you take the time to learn how it works.Īdditionally, vim allows you to edit just about anything including sqlite and all kinds of other stuff.Īlso, when you convert a binary to hex and then edit, I think you may need to convert back to binary by using :%! xxd -r command as described here. Press ESC and then type :q followed by ENTER or ESC and then type :q! followed by ENTER to exit the file. Press ESC and then type :w followed by ENTER to save the file. Press ESC and then i for 'INSERT' mode which allows you to edit. Once the file is open, press ESC and then type :%! xxd -b and then press ENTER.Īlternatively, you can add the flag -g4 to group the bits into 32 bit packets like :%! xxd -b -g4įor hex edit, use the vim command :%! xxd instead or :%! xxd -g4 Note: you can drag and drop the file into the terminal to automatically fill in the path for youįYI, the :%! command prefix allows you to pipe the current file's contents to command's stdin, and replaces the file's contents with command's stdout. Now, use the vim command :%! xxd -b to edit binary like in this example: vim /path/to/filename Just to make sure, go ahead and install vim: sudo apt-get update You can use vim which should already be installed.

Linux binary editor