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Re:Toyota brand Scion is back and it's going to sell a kei t... by elmean on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @10:19AM (#50454475)
> "Engineers tell us they baked this into the engine's computer, and a simple "cut the wire" trick won't unlock highway speeds."

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Re:Toyota brand Scion is back and it's going to sell a kei t... by RankingMember on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @10:41AM (#50454721)
Disable ABS via fuse to prevent odd behavior due to what you're about to do, then: install different tone wheels with less frequent valleys/rises (or intercept and manipulate the signal before returning to the ECU), done. Hacky and will ruin your odometer accuracy, but there ya go. :P
Re:Toyota brand Scion is back and it's going to sell a kei t... by rtkwe on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @11:37AM (#50455382)
Or the more likely solution, blast a custom firmware into the ECU without the baked in governor. I imagine that will be out there within weeks of these being released in the US.