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can a v6 crow cams chip be reprogramed for a v8

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We have a unused crow cam chip for a V6 and was wondering if it can be reprogramed for a 5lt with twin thrott's?
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From memory the crow memcal is locked. If you've spent the money on a twin throttle body I'm sure spending an extra $50 for a memcal from your tuner wouldn't be that bad.
 
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I actually swapped it for a irs diff, its a custom made one too. was just tryin to do things a bit cheaper an if I got one sittin round doin nuthin I thought why not use it. but had a feeling they'd lock them :-(
 

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Sorry darl. Could always try the wreckers/gumtree/ebay and see what comes up.
 

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Wouldn't have mattered anyway, would have been a completely new image, it's not like there's a V6/V8 flag which you can just check, they're completely different and not much from the original image would have been usable for a V8.

Send your original memcal to one of the forum tuners maybe.
 
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I thought they might have been able to remove the v6 image an put the V8 one on it. I'm still learning bout chips now
 

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The Holden ones can be erased with a UV burner or a ROM burner and written to with a ROM burner. They don't lock their tunes, delcohacking even has a library of factory tunes. You can open them up and have a look at them in TunerPro, interesting stuff.
 
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OP is talking about using a Crow cam memcal from a v6. Crow memcals are usually locked and not able to be reprogrammed. OP spend the money get a decent mail order tune done. The tuner will also be able to provide a memcal. Also don't forget to make a ride thread :p
 

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V6 and V8 memcals are different. Even if you did erase the V6 tune you wouldn't want to use it for a V8 engine.
 
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