Wired
November, 2002
Hac Your CarTweaking your engine to fast-and-furious performance once required you to spend your weekends under the hood fiddling with fuel injectors and camshafts. The new way to rev up the RPMs is to forgo the mechanic and hire a hacker. Inside most new cars is a diagnostic computer chip programmed by the manufacturer to control the engine. To juice a vehicle's performance, computer freaks replace the factory-installed computer chip in the dashboard with a chip purchased from retailers such as...
