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Old 11-27-2008, 01:59 PM
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Default What do you think of this Tuner?

I have a 1996 LT1 car and my friend has a 2000 Camaro 6.0 car and we are wanting to go half in on buying this tuner...

It says it will tune cars from 1996-2007... look at the vehicles applications...

http://store.summitracing.com/partde...5&autoview=sku

I dont see many people using this software...

let me know what u think..
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just buy HPtuners or get a real dyno tune.
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Obviously HPTuners doesnt work on an LT1 and anybody can get a dyno tune.. spend about the same and have unlimited tuning capabilty!

Tune for my bolt on car...
Tune for my Cammed car...
Then I add heads..
And gears...

This way I can take my time on my mods and I can tune for each indiviual mod and not wait till I have EVERYTHING...

I personally want to learn how to tune and I figured with this tuner me and my friends can play around..
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i heard somewhere along the line Jet acquired part of tuner cats or something? could that be it?

i would do some more searching on it before you jump on it though.

or jump on it and tell me what you think . lol
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researching right now.. ill keep yall updated..
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Originally Posted by Green3spd
researching right now.. ill keep yall updated..
thanks. i will see what i can dig up too. as i am interested.
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on thier site they offer a demo download. i dont have a cable though.
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me neither...egh..
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i wonder if you can get an adapter for the other end of the cable used on a code reader to plug into a lap top... that would be the cheap way.
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I downloaded the "demo" and it makes NO SENSE... I cant even get it to pull up anything except legal pages..
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yes JET is the rebranded tunercats for obd2. It's basically the best option for 96-97 cars.
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From the Tuner Cat web site:

C.A.T.S is pleased to announce that Jet Performance Products has licensed our OBDII Tuner program and as of April 25th 2006 will the exclusive distributor for the software under the product name JET Dynamic Spectrum Tuner.

This help?

Best -- Gary
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Had no idea that it was Tunercats pretty cool. I say go for it, theres only one way to learn!
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i think i will be picking one up soon. good to know.
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Its def goin take some time to learn after looking thru the demo...
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that is very good software... dont get your hopes up though and think you will be able to tune any car, its vin locked to only 4 vehicles but you can purchase additional licenses at a cost
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oh and check this link out instead, ill think you'll like the price A LOT better
http://www.jegs.com/p/JET/762010/10002/-1
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I have been researching the hell out of this the last couple years. If you buy it from jeg's, it's 375.00. The downfall to this program is that there is no intergrated scan/log software. www.westersgarage.com has the ecm pro software for 170.00. It is compatible with tunercat/jet dst. Another thing with jet, is the lack of support!!! Go to monodax.com/forums and you will find quite a bit of info there. The nice thing about jet is that it comes with two licenses and will work on about any gm vehicle 96-05.
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[QUOTE=kinglt-1;10562217]I Another thing with jet, is the lack of support!!! Go to monodax.com/forums and you will find quite a bit of info there. QUOTE]

the JET software sounds alot better than LT1 edit though. and LT1 edit doesnt have a datalogger either.
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bump for more opinions. i am ready to move in on it.


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