{"id":85989,"date":"2022-06-03T12:51:31","date_gmt":"2022-06-03T19:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/?p=85989"},"modified":"2022-06-03T12:51:31","modified_gmt":"2022-06-03T19:51:31","slug":"trifecta-becomes-first-external-company-to-crack-the-corvette-c8-tuning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/trifecta-becomes-first-external-company-to-crack-the-corvette-c8-tuning\/","title":{"rendered":"Trifecta Becomes First External Company to Crack the Corvette C8 Tuning"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Via Corvette Forum<\/a><\/p>\n

When the C8 Corvette was launched in late 2019 it had the automobile world in a frenzy. It was a mid-engined Corvette that had the performance to rival exotics that cost 4 times as much. General Motors however, did not want to make the C8 highly tunable so they did their best to encrypt the C8 Corvette ECU, making it seemingly impossible to tune the car. Even three years later no one has cracked the C8 Corvette ECU, while others have been using proprietary methods and piggyback ECUs to circumvent this major limitation. The fine folks at Trifecta have done exactly that.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis has been a long time coming. \u00a0Today\u2019s success has its roots in a project that started the better half of a decade ago.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cWe absolutely respect what GM has built here. \u00a0Aftermarket tuners have a tendency to cast themselves as smarter than the OE engineers as a dubious marketing strategy for their services. \u00a0GM without question put their best foot forward with the C8, and from a tuner\u2019s perspective, this car deserves nothing less than the humblest approach.\u201d<\/em> \u00a0\u2013 Vince Geglia II, Owner \/ Founder of TRIFECTA Performance Inc.<\/p>\n

While it\u2019s a bit of a disappointment that a traditional tune can\u2019t extract significant power from the C8 as is the case with most other vehicles out there, going to the trouble of doing so can still benefit owners in a number of ways. Now, we can\u2019t wait to see how far the LT2 can be pushed without having to circumvent what was formerly known as the \u201cuncrackable\u201d ECU.<\/p>\n

Photos Trifecta Performance<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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