diff --git a/firmware/controllers/lua/lua_hooks_util.cpp b/firmware/controllers/lua/lua_hooks_util.cpp
index 55b49a01b1..c70bdc9136 100644
--- a/firmware/controllers/lua/lua_hooks_util.cpp
+++ b/firmware/controllers/lua/lua_hooks_util.cpp
@@ -51,4 +51,13 @@ void configureRusefiLuaUtilHooks(lua_State* l) {
 */
 }
 
-
+void * hackEngineConfigurationPointer(void *ptr) {
+	// we know that 'engineConfiguration' was null at the time of initialization in unit tests
+#if EFI_UNIT_TEST
+			intptr_t offset = (intptr_t)ptr;
+			void * valuePtr = (void *)engineConfiguration + offset;
+			return valuePtr;
+#else
+			return ptr;
+#endif
+}
diff --git a/firmware/controllers/lua/value_lookup.h b/firmware/controllers/lua/value_lookup.h
index 0b50cd3ca5..94fd5152c6 100644
--- a/firmware/controllers/lua/value_lookup.h
+++ b/firmware/controllers/lua/value_lookup.h
@@ -27,3 +27,5 @@ plain_get_float_s * findFloat(const char *name);
 float getConfigValueByName(const char *name);
 void setConfigValueByName(const char *name, float value);
 float getOutputValueByName(const char *name);
+
+void * hackEngineConfigurationPointer(void *ptr);