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Reminds me of us tuning mopeds back in the day.

The Aprilia SR50 Ditech with direct injection had an ECU that was limitied to make it's power output street legal. Our finest moment was when we got our hands on a debug cable for that ECU. You connected it to an outlet on the moped. The other end had a GameBoy cartridge that went into your GameBoy.

Removing the limit on the ECU would of course have been illegal. Let's just say that we could have done that if we wanted to...



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